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Prehistory to 1500
Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Neolithic mean? | New Stone |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | Old Stone |
| What is the nickname for Austrapithecines? | Lucy |
| What is Austrapaithecines? | First upright hominds |
| How long ago was Lucy around? | 3-4 million years ago |
| Where did we first originate? | Africa |
| What does spread mean? | Take over |
| What does Nomadic mean? | Follow food (no home) |
| Homo Sapiens? | 120,000 years ago |
| Homo Sapiens? | Modern Humans |
| What did men and women do? | Men hunted and women gathered |
| What is a civilization? | Food surplus Advanced cities Advanced technology Skilled workers Complex institutions-government, religion System of writing/record keeping |
| How many things make up a civilization | 6 |
| Where was Mesopotamia? | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
| What is Mesopotamia known as? | Birthplace of civilization |
| What is irrigation? | Moving water |
| Where is modern day Mesopotamia? | Iraq |
| When did irrigation start? | 6,000 BCE |
| What are native Americans? | people native to on place |
| Cross bearing strait? | 25,000BCE |
| Why are rivers where early civilization start? | Rivers makes land nearby fertile with minerals |
| Who was Hammurabi? | King od Babylon |
| When did Hammurabi resign? | 1700s BCE |
| What was most of Mesopotamia? | Babylon empire |
| What did Hammurabi make? | The first set of laws |
| What was Hammurabi's law? | An eye for an eye |
| What was Hammurabi's law called? | The code of Hammurabi |
| Ancient Egypt begins? | 3100 BCE in the Nile Delta |
| Ancient Egypt's writing was? | Hieroglyphics |
| Ancient Egypt's social structure? | Pyramid |
| What was the Rosetta stone used for? | Translate hieroglyphics |
| What was Harappa? | Ancient India |
| Where is modern day Ancient India? | Pakistan |
| Where was the cast system used? | India |
| What is a hierarchy? | Rank system |
| Caste= | Social level |
| Social Pyramid? | Priests Warriors Workers |
| Who is outside the caste system? | Untouchable |
| What makes you an untouchable? | You did something really bad in your past life |
| Meso America? | Mexico and Central America |
| Olmee? | 1200 BCE / old Mexico |
| Maya? | 300-900 CE Mexico |
| Aztec? | 1100s CE Mexico |
| Inca? | 1400s CE Peru |
| Why did America start later? | Inhabited later and bad geography |
| Silk Roads? | Trade routes for India's |
| What are camel caravans? | Groups of camels used to transport items |
| The silk roads were used for? | Luxury items like jewels and silk |
| What did the silk roads allow? | Exchange in culture and religion |
| How many Chinese dynasties are there? | 13 |
| What was the first Chinese dynasty? | Shang |
| Shang dynasty? | Oracle bones |
| Zhou dynasty? | Mandate of heaven |
| Qin dynasty? | Great wall (kept out the nomads) |
| What is Sparta all about? | War |
| What do men do in Sparta? | Strict, men in military until 60 |
| Sparta? | Isolated, ruled by two kings |
| Athens? | All about democracy |
| Alexander the Great? | Conquered most of Mediterranean by age 20 |
| Spread Greek empire furthest from? | India to Egypt |
| Alexander started Hellenistic? | Golden age |
| How many silk roads? | Many |
| Philosophers? | 'Love of wisdom' rational thought |
| Philosophers wanted to explain nature without saying? | the gods did it |
| Socrates Method? | Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
| Who were some Philosophers? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the great |
| The Romans were ruled by? | Kings then Republic |
| Patricians? | Upper class- Land owners |
| Plebeians? | Lower class- Poor, Peasants |
| Senate? | Made laws |
| First set of Roman laws? | Innocent until proven guilty Right to depend self in court |
| Jews in Israel resisted? | Romans |
| Jesus of Nazareth born? | 1 CEish, small group of Jews proclaim Messiah |
| After Jesus death in 33 CE? | Branch of Judaism developed into Christianity |
| Mali is located in? | West Africa |
| Mali is the capital at? | Timbuktu |
| The Mongols had? | Largest land empire ever |
| Mongols military was unstoppable and best with? | Guns and horses |
| Golden Horde (best army) conquered? | Russia |
| Genghis Kahn (grandpa)? | Started and spread empire |
| Ogedi Kahn (son)? | Died and Poland |
| Kublai Kahn (grandson)? | Took china called it yuan dynasty |
| In Japanese beginnings they had? | Small tribes, not one big country |
| In 600s yamamoto? | Unites, divides ruler |
| In 800s Japan? | Civil war |
| Agricultural was based off? | Rice |
| Japan used which type of land system/ | Feudal |
| Japans religion was? | Shinto |
| Motives for the crusades 1? | Muslim invasion of Christian territories |
| Motives for the crusades 2? | Knights get penance for kill count or dying on crusades |
| Pope Urban 2 sent knights on holy crusades to Middle east to? | Reclaim the holy lands |
| Muslims preserved what text? | Greek and Roman |
| Crusades brought text such as? | Plato |
| Crusades bringing text lead to? | Renaissance (culture of birth) |
| Great Schism stands for? | The split |
| Only which priest could marry? | Orthedox |
| Orthedox bibles were written in Greek not? | Latin |
| Pope outlawed praying icons (pictures)? | Iconoclasm |
| Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other, caused? | rift, exist today |
| Another name for black plague? | Bubonic plague |
| Black plague Transmitted from? | Middle east by traders |
| Black plague killed? | 1/2 of Europe's population |
| Black plague was brought by? | Mongols on the silk road |
| Black plague was transmitted by? | Rodents, fleas, bacteria, and human to human |
| Loss of faith in church to protect people? | Decline in church power Mass burials Vampire rumors Medical advancements |
| What differences in the two churches (Roman church and eastern orthdodox) led them to spilt? | Only orthodox persist could marry, bible was written in Latin |
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