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prehistory of 1500
Question | Answer |
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what does Neolithic mean | new stone |
What does paleolithic mean | Old Stone |
Who was Lucy | Lucy was the first human like creature |
when was Australopithecines | about 3-4 millions years ago |
What continent was Australopithecines found in | Africa |
Homo erectus | left Africa |
what started in the Neolithic age | agriculture began |
What all Started in Neolithic age | cities religion metal tools |
Men Hunted and women gathered in what age | Paleolithic age |
First civilization | Mesopotamia |
where was Mesopotamia located | between Tigris and Euphrates |
Harappa | in modern day Pakistan around time 3000 BCE |
why does early civilization start by rivers | fertile soil and minerals |
Who is Hammurabi | Babylonian empire started centralized bureaucracy |
when did Hammurabi start | around the time 1700 BCE |
First code of laws | Hammurabi had the first type of laws |
how was the code of Hammurabi set up | eye for and eye high class people had less punishment |
caste system | rank system for the people |
where was priest in caste system | priest was the top people also know as the head of the body |
where are the warriors | warriors are the 2nd to top in caste system referred to the body |
workers | workers are at the bottom of the caste system know as the legs |
untouchables | untouchables are the very bottom of the system the ground that the body walks on |
how are untouchables different | your not aloud to speak or make eye contact with them |
why did it take America so long to get civilization | no animals and bad geography |
ancient Egypt | started around the time 3100 BCE in the Nile delta |
Nile | flows North 4000 miles |
social structure | the pyramid |
pharaoh | the pharaoh is at the top of ancient Egypt social structure |
priest | priest are right under pharaoh on the social structure |
scribes | scribes are below the priest of the social structure |
Craftsmen | craftsmen are below the scribes on social structure |
soldier | soldier are on very bottom of social level |
what country are we all from | africa |
Homo sapiens time period | around the time 30,000 BCE |
what does civilization need | food surplus Advanced cities Advanced technology |
how did Nomadic move | followed food |
What modern day country is Mesopotamia in | modern day Iraq |
silk road | trade routes to India's empires |
what did they travel on the silk road | camels |
what did they trade | luxury items like silk or jewelry |
what did they exchanged | Religion and culture |
Shang dynasty | 1st Chinese dynasty |
What are the Crusades | Muslims invasion on christen territories |
Who was the pope during the crusades | Pope urban the II |
What text was preserved and who preserved them | Muslims preserved the Greek and roman text |
when was Olmec around | 1200 BCE Mexico |
When was the Maya around | 300-900 CE Mexico |
when was the Aztec around | 1100s CE Mexico |
when was the Inca around | 1400s CE Peru |
Egyptians wrote in what type of text | Hieroglyphics |
around what time did irrigation begin | 6000 BCE |
When was the Neolithic age | 8000-5000 BCE |
Neolithic revolution | most important event in history |
Where did Homo Sapiens cross | Bearing straight |
What text did crusaders bring back | Plato Aristotle |
What did the crusades lead to | Great schism or great split |
Black plague also know as | Bubonic Plague |
where was it transmitted from | middle east by traders |
how many did it kill | half of Europe's population |
how was it transmitted | Rodents Fleas Bacteria Human to Human |
what did it lead to | loss in faith in church to protect people |
Zhou dynasty | Mandate of heaven |
Qin dynasty | Made the great wall |
Sparta | was all about war strict isolated |
Athens | all about democracy direct democracy unified greece |
Alexander the Great | Conquered most of the Mediterranean by age 20 |
who spread the Greek empire the most | Alexander the Great |
what was the first two country in Greek | Athens and Sparta |
What did Alexander the great start | Hellenistic also know as golden age |
Philosophers | "love of wisdom" rational thoughts |
how did they want to explain nature | gods did it |
Socrates | was a Greek philosophers |
Socratic method | suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
how many kings did Sparta have | 2 |
The Greeks invented what | Dramas |
Who wrote the odyssey | Homer |
Plato | is a Greek philosophers |
Aristotle | is a Greek philosophers |
how many Chinese dynasty are there | 83 |
Romans | ruled by king then republic |
patricians | upper class land owners |
plebeians | lower-class poor peasants |
Patricians did what | made laws |
12 tables | first set of roman laws |
what was in those laws | innocent till proven guilty |
Roman Jews | Jews in Israel resisted romans |
When was Jesus of Nazareth born | 1 CE ish |
Mali | West Africa |
what did they trade | gold and salt |
where is Mali capital | Timbuktu |
Mansa Musa | Double size of Mali |
Mongols | largest land empire ever |
how was there military | unstoppable |
why did they not take over japan | huge storm |
Genghis | started and spread the empire |
ogedi Kahn | he was the son and died in poland |
Kublai Kahn | grandson he took over china called it yaan dynasty |
Japanese beginnings | small tribes not one big counter |
what was brought back to Mali | tons of gold |
what did they trade | luxury items like silk or jewelry |
What text was preserved and who preserved them | Muslims preserved the Greek and roman text |