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Social Studies Final

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What are the rules/themes of History?   1)you can't separate history from geography 2)history moves in cycles 3)we are all products of history 4)the larger the empire, the harder it is to defend  
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what is an empire?   place ruled by one person, the emperor  
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Where is the prime meridean, the equator, the tropics of cancer and capricorn and the arctic and antartic circles? ----> 0   ----------------  
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What are the three types of government? What do they mean?   Democracy,Aristocracy,Oligarchy Democracy=ruled by many Aristocracy=ruled by one Oligarchy=ruled by many  
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Pre-history to history, when did it change?   when people started to record what happened  
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What is a hunter/gatherer?   when the people of a tribe hunt and gather their food-the netsilik. 2-5 people  
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What is nomadism?   going from place to place depending on food source and climate  
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what is irrigational agriculture?   growing plants/crops by moving water through the land using canals to water the crops  
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what is industrialism?   use machines to make "stuff" instead of using haands, mass. production  
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Homo Habilis   skillful human,2 mil-1.5 mil. yrs ago  
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Homo Erectus   upright walking human,1.6 mil.-400000 yrs ago  
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Homo Sapiens   30,000-today  
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Who are the Netsilik? How did they survive?   modern 1980s hunter and gathererers. Caribou-fake humans,chase to river,kill igloo-very warm, bottom up, hole in top  
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Two rivers around Mesopatamia?   Tigris and Euphratees  
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What does Mesopatamia mean?   Land between two rivers  
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The Education in Mesopotamia?   If you were bad you were caned, wrote on clay  
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Who was Hammurabi?   made first law (eye for an eye)  
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Who was Sargon I?   The first emperor  
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What were Mesopatamian contributions?   -alphabet -sailboat -calendar -wheel -plow -clock -math -cuneform  
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What were the Kingdoms in Egypt?   Old,Middle and New  
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What was the Rosetta Stone?   a stone with a bunch of sybols and writings of different languages  
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What is a Pharaoh?   a ruler in ancient ancient egypt  
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What were Egyptian contributions??   -paper -medicine -math -pyramids  
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What were the Phoenicians known for?   trade and dye  
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Phoenicians contributions?   alphabet,maps better ships?  
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Who were the Minoans? Th Micineans?   Minoans-arose on the island of Crete Mycenaean-from mainland--greece  
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What was the Trojan War?   A war between the Trojans and the Greeks ( may be fake) was 10 years long, Trojan horse, greeks win  
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What were th Persian Wars?   wars between persia for thier thermopalae, 300 vs thousands  
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What was the Pellopanesian War?   beween athens and sparta  
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Who was Darius?   leader of persia sends ships to marathon in athens  
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What was the Golden Age?   the best time of greece, a time of learning,and many inventions  
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Tell about the Illiad and the Odyssey   written by homer,odessey in osyseases journey, the illiad is about the trojan war  
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Who was Perseus?   defeated medusa,andromeda  
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Who was Theseus?   battled minotaur in labrinyth  
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Greek Contributions   democracy & study of government theater, art and architecture, Olympics, mathematics, language, philosophy medicine (Hippocratic Oath), marathon Scientific method (Aristotle)  
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caesar   Julius Caesar was a Roman general,critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.  
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augustus   great nephew, Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor  
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pompeii/herculaneum   destroyed by volcano preserved by tons of ash  
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Ides of March   date of the assassination of Julius Caesar by the senate  
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christianity   at first didn't like it, crucified Jesus, now official religious  
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decline of empire   barbarians, taxes got HUGE, no good emperor plans  
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Roman Contributions   Law Architecture Calender Language Roads Numerals  
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Dark ages   declin of trade,learning,government  
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what is feudalism?   FOOD FOR PROTECTION!!!!!!! Lords are the most rich, own the manor Vassals-provide protection Serfs-farmers,poorest of the poor  
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Manor/castle system   manor in middle houses and fields on outside  
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