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prehistory to 1500
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does Neolithic mean? | new stone |
| what does paleolithic mean? | old stone |
| what where australopithicines? | first upright hominids |
| who was lucy? | first humanlike creature |
| when were the australopithicines (how long ago)? | 3-4 million years ago |
| when were the homo sapiens around? | 120,000 |
| when were the homo sapiens sapiens around? | 30,000 BCE modern humans |
| what did the homo sapiens sapiens cross? | bearing strait |
| when did the homo sapiens sapiens cross the bearing strait? | 25,000 BCE |
| what left Africa? | homo erectus |
| what were homo erectus? | isolated; separate species from ex-Neanderthals |
| where did homo sapiens sapiens originate? | Africa |
| they were nomadic which means? | no home/followed food |
| while the men hunted what did the women do? | gathered supplies |
| in what age did people start to use tools? | Neolithic(new stone) |
| how long did the Neolithic age last? | 8,000-5,000 BCE |
| what was the "Neolithic revolution"? | agriculture |
| what was considered the birthplace of civilization? | Mesopotamia |
| between what two rivers was the Mesopotamia located? | tigris and euphrates |
| in about what year did irrigation (moving water) start to occur in the Mesopotamia? | 6,000 BCE |
| why are rivers where early civilizations start? | river makes land nearby fertile with minerals |
| who was the king of Babylon? | Hammurabi |
| when did Hammurabi reign? | 1700s BCE |
| what did the code of Hammurabi mean? | it meant what you do to someone else they will do to you "eye for an eye" |
| when did ancient Egypt begin? | 3100 BCE |
| where did ancient Egypt begin? | the Nile delta |
| what type of writing was used in ancient Egypt? | hieroglyphics |
| where does the Nile river flow? | north |
| how far does the Nile river flow? | 4,000 miles |
| what was the social structure of ancient Egypt? | a pyramid with the pharaoh on top and soldiers, farmers and tomb builders |
| what was the Rosetta stone? | it has the same text in three different translations which in turn was used to read hieroglyphics |
| what was Harappa? | ancient India |
| what river is associated with Harappa? | Indus river |
| what is Harappa now in modern times? | modern day Pakistan |
| who were the Aryans? | European nomads that controlled natives |
| what was the caste system? | hierarchy ranking system based on skin color to determine your place in the social community |
| what tribe of meso America was in 1200 BCE-old Mexico? | the Olmec |
| what tribe was in meso America in 300-900 CE-Mexico? | the Maya |
| what tribe was in meso America in 1100s CE-Mexico? | the Aztec |
| what tribe was in meso America in 1400s CE-Peru? | the Inca |
| what were the silk roads? | trade routes for India's empires |
| what was traded along the silk road? | luxury items like silk jewelry etc. |
| what was the first chineese dynasty and something about them? | the Shang dynasty the oracle bones |
| what was the second Chinese dynasty and something about them? | the Zhou dynasty(pronounced Joe) mandate of heaven |
| what was the third Chinese dynasty and something about them? | the Qin dynasty (pronounced chin) they built the great wall of china |
| what are the Chinese dynasties in order? | Shang,Zhou,Qin,Han,Sui,Tang,Song,Yuan,Ming,Ching, Republic, Mao Zedong and De |
| who wrote the odyssey and lliad? | homer |
| what city was the source of western culture in ancient Greece? | the city of Athens |
| what was Sparta known for? | war it was also an oligarchy (ruled by two kings) |
| what was Athens known for? | democracy lost to Sparta in the Peloponnesian war |
| what was alexander the great most known for? | he conquered most of the Mediterranean by age 20 and unifies Greece |
| what did alexander the great spread? | Greek empire |
| what did alexander the great start? | Hellenistic(golden age) from India to Egypt |
| what was a philosopher? | they had a love of wisdom |
| what did the philosophers think about the gods? | they thought it didn't make sense they believed in a more rational explanation than anything about the gods |
| what was Socrates considered? | a martyr |
| who was Socrates most famous student? | Plato |
| who did Plato teach? | Aristotle |
| who did Aristotle teach? | alexander the great |
| what were the romans ruled by? | kings then republic |
| what were patricians? | upper class - land owners |
| what were plebeians? | lower class - poor peasants |
| what were the first set of roman laws? | 12 tables innocent until proven guilty |
| when was Jesus of Nazareth born? | 1CEish |
| after Jesus's death in 33 CE what branched of from Judaism and was formed? | Christianity |
| what is the capital of Mali? | Timbuktu |
| who found Mali? | mansa musa |
| where did mansa musa go as a Muslim? | mecca |
| what did mansa musa bring tons of with him on his way to mecca? | gold |
| what was the largest land empire ever? | the Mongols |
| what were the Mongols best with? | guns and horses |
| what army conquered Russia? | the golden horde |
| why didn't they take over Europe? | because ogedie khan got hit In the throat with an arrow so they went back home to choose a new khan |
| why didn't they take over japan? | huge storms (kamikaze) divine winds stop Mongols |
| which khan started and spread the empire? | gengis khan |
| which khan took an arrow to the throat in Poland? | ogedei khan |
| which khan took china and called it Yuan dynasty? | Kublai khan |
| what is bushido? | samurai code way of the warrior |
| what was japans religion at the time? | Shinto |
| what was one of the motives for the crusades? | Muslim invasion of "Christian" territories |
| who sent knights on holy crusade to middle east to reclaim Christian territories? | pope urban II |
| what did Muslims preserve? | Greek and roman texts |
| crusaders brought back texts such as? | Aristotle, Plato |
| these lead to? | renaissance |
| before 1054 holy roman church and eastern orthodox church together led to? | split |
| what was iconoclasm? | praying to icons pictures |
| what did the pope and patriarch of constanople do? | excommunicated each other |
| how was the black plague transmitted? | middle east by traders |
| the black plague killed how much of Europe's population? | 1/2 |
| the black death was brought by who? | the Mongols on the silk roads |
| what was one method that the plague was spread? | rodents |
| what was a 2nd way that the plague was spread? | fleas |
| what was a 3rd way that the plague was spread? | bacteria |
| what was a 4th way that the plague was spread? | human to human |
| the plague lead to what? | loss in faith in the church to protect people |
| what was something else caused by the black death? | decline in church power |
| what was an effect of the black death? | mass burials |
| what rumors were caused by the black death? | vampire rumors |
| what was an advancement due to the black death? | medical advancements |
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