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Global History
Regents review
Term | Definition |
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Neolithic Revolution | The change from hunting and gathering to farming and building civilizations |
RiverValley Civilizations | Mesopotamia -- Tigris & Euphrates Rivers India --Indus River Valley Egypt -- Nile River China -- Yellow River(Hwang He River) |
Early Civilizations settled next to | Rivers --- For farming and trading |
Monotheistic | Belief in one god ---- Judaism/ Christianity/ Islam |
Polytheistic | Belief in many gods --- Hinduism |
Animism | Religion that believes that all of nature has spirits--- Animism in africa and Shinto in Japan |
Reincarnation | Belief that the soul is reborn into another body --- Buddhism and Hinduism |
Buddhism | Founded by Siddartha Guatama --- believes in the Eigthfold Path and 4 Noble Truths |
Culture | a group of peoples way of life |
Cultural Diffusion | the Spreading of ideas from one place to another --- often goes with Crusades/ trade/ commercial revolution |
Greece and Rome | Answer is usually law and government. |
Laws | Hammurabi's Code/ Justinian Code/ Twelve Tables |
Golden Age | period of time when there is peace and prosperity ( Athens/ Rome/Renaissance/ Pax Romana) |
Crusades | Holy wars that RESULTED in cultural Diffusion and Trade |
Early Writing | Cuneiform/ Heiroglyphics |
Renaissance | Increased focus on Humans and Not church / Humanism |
Reformation | Changing of the Church RESULTED in many more churches and loss of unity |
Fall of Rome | lead to chaos and instability |
Martin Luther | Wanted to change the church --- Against Indulgences |
African Kingdoms | Ghana/Mali/Songhai --- Traded in GOLD and SALT -- lead to cultural diffusion |
Pre-Columbian Civilizations | Maya/Aztec/Inca -- Advanced civilizations |
Mansa Musa | Travelled to MECCA/ became MUSLIM |
Columbian Exchange | Exchanging of goods between Europe and the "New" World ( americas) ---- Cultural Diffusion |