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prehistory to 1500
Question | Answer |
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What does neolithic mean? | New Stone |
What does paleolithic mean? | Old Stone |
What is a nick name for australopithecines? | Lucy |
How many years ago was Homo Sapiens? | 120,000 |
Who was Lucy? | The first human-like creature |
Homo Erectus left where? | Africa |
Where did homo sapiens sapiens originate from? | Africa |
What did Nomadics do? | Followed food |
What did the nomadic men and women do? | The Men Hunted And The Women Gathered |
What does DNA prove? | We all come from one place. |
Where do we all come from. | Africa |
What Is Neolithic age? | The tools people use |
Agriculture is? | Neolithic Revolution |
What age is the most important event of history | Neolithic |
In a civilization what do you need that is advanced? | Cities and Technology |
what is race determined by? | Climate |
Mesopotamia is the birthplace of what? | civilization |
Between which two rivers can you find Mesopotamia? | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
Mesopotamia is what? | modern day iraq |
Irrigation is? | moving water |
Why are rivers where early civilization start? | Rivers make land nearby fertile with minerals |
What empire is Most of Mesopotamia? | Babylonian |
What is are centralized Bureaucracy? | Compartments/departments |
That code of what is an eye for an eye? | Hammurabi |
High class equals? | less punishment |
Ancient Egypt begins when and where? | 3100 BCE in Nile delta |
What flows North 4,000 into the Mediterranean sea? | The Nile |
What shape is the social structure? | Pyramid |
What's Ancient India? | Harappa |
Who migrated to the Indus River in 3000 BCE and Modern Pakistan? | Aryans --- European Nomads |
Who controlled the Natives and brought caste system? | European Nomads |
What is the Caste system? | Rigid social hierarchy |
Caste is a what? | Social level |
Who are outside of the Caste system? | The Untouchables |
Why are the untouchables outside of the caste system? | They are considered sub-human and should not be touched or spoken to |
Who are at the top of the Caste social scale? | The priests then the warriors. |
Meso America is? | Mexico/ Central America |
Olmec is? | Old Mexico in1200 BCE |
The Maya existed when and where? | 300-900 CE in Mexico |
The Aztecs existed when and where? | 1100s CE in Mexico |
The Incas existed when and where? | 1400s CE in Peru |
When did it start and why? | Started later because inhabited later - bad geography |
What are silk roads? | Trade Routes for India's empires |
What is a Camel Caravan? | desert ships from China to India, Africa, and Europe |
What did the Caravan carry? | Luxury items such as Silk Jewelry |
Which Chinese dynasty was the first dynasty? | Shang |
What did the Shang dynasty use to ask questions on that they wanted answered? | Oracle Bones |
In what Dynasty was the Mandate of Heaven? | Zhou |
Mandate of heaven means? | Can keep ruling if fair |
Why was the great wall built? | to keep the nomads out |
Which Dynasty was around when the great wall was made? | Qin |
Who were not one governed country? | The Greeks |
What was the source of Western Culture? | Athens |
who is about war? | Sparta |
Who is Strict and has men in the military until 60? | Sparta |
Sparta is isolated and has what type of government? | Oligarchy (two kings) - ruled by few |
Athens is all about what? | Democracy |
What type of government does Athens have? | Direct Democracy - all vote |
In the Peloponnesian war what was the outcome? | Athens lost to Sparta |
Who conquered most of the Mediterranean by the age 20? | Alexander the great |
What empire did alexander the great spread the furthest? | the Greek Empire |
What did Alexander the great start? | Hellenistic Age |
What is the Hellenistic Age? | spread gold from India to Egypt |
What did the philosophers want to explain? | wanted to explain nature without saying "the gods did it" |
What was Socrates Socratic Method? | Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
Who were the romans ruled by? | Ruled by kings then Republic |
Who were the patricians and what does it mean? | It means father and they're the upper class land owners |
who are the Plebeians? | lower class poor peasants |
Who made laws? | The senate |
The first set of Roman laws are? | The 12 tables |
Who resisted the Romans? | The Jews in Israel |
Who proclaimed Messiah when Jesus of Nazareth was born Ice-ish? | The Jews |
What happened after Jesus Death in 33 CE? | A branch of Judaism developed into Christianity |
Mali was what trade? | Gold and Salt |
Mansa Musa is? | Double size of Mali |
Who was the largest land empire ever military unstoppable? | The Mongols |
What is Mali's Capitol | Timbuktu |
The Mongols were best with what? | Guns and horses |
Who is known as the best army and also conquered Russia? | The Golden Horde |
Why didn't the Mongols take over Europe? | Ogedi died so they returned to Mongolia |
Why didn't the Mongols take over Japan? | There was a huge storm called Kamikaze that stopped them |
Who started and spread the Mongolian Empire? | Genghis Kahn |
Which important Mongol died in Poland? | Ogedi Kahn |
Which important Mongol took china and called it the Yuan Dynasty? | Kublai Kahn |
Japanese Beginnings was? | small tribes not one big country |
What was a Motive of the Crusades? | Muslim invasion of Christian territories |
Who sent knights on holy crusades to middle east to reclaim the holy lands? | Pope Urban II |
In the Muslim motives, who got penance for kill count and dying on a crusade | Knights |
What was transmitted from middle east by traders? | Bubonic plague |
What did Muslims preserve? | Greek and Roma texts |
What texts did the crusaders bring back? | Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the great |
What did the greek and roman texts lead to? | Renaissance, science, technological advancements, mathematical advancements. and banking |
Difference between Holy Roman Church and eastern orthodox church led to? | only orthodox priests could marry |
What was the Orthodox bible written in? | Greek not Latin |
What is Iconoclasm? | pope outlawed praying to icons |
How many did the plague kill? | over half of europes population |
Where was the plague brought on? | The silk roads |
Why was there a loss of faith in church? | The plaque was killing many people and Europe thought there was no god |
Before 1054 what 2 churches split? | Holy Roman Church and Eastern Orthodox |
What happened between the Pope and the patriarch of Constantinople? | Excommunicated each other, caused a rift, and it still exists |