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Prehistory to 1500
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Neolithic mean? | New Stone |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | Old Stone |
| What does australopithecines mean? | Southern Ape |
| What are australopithecines? | First Upright Hominids |
| Who was the first upright hominid found? | Lucy |
| How many years ago were the first upright hominids? | 3-4 million |
| How many years ago were homo sapiens? | 120,000 |
| What are homo sapiens sapiens? | Modern humans |
| When were the homo sapiens sapiens? | 30,000 BCE |
| When did they cross the bearing strait? | 25,000 BCE |
| Where do homo sapiens originate? | Africa |
| What does nomadic mean? | No home |
| Where did everyone come from? | Africa |
| When was the Neolithic age? | 8,000-5,000 BCE |
| What was the most important even in history? | Neolithic Revolution |
| What are some examples from the Neolithic Revolution? | Agriculture, Cities, Religion, and Metal tools |
| What is a civilization? | Food surplus, advanced cities, advanced technology, skilled workers, complex govt./religion, writing/record keeping |
| What was Mesopotamia? | The Birthplace of Civilization |
| Where was Mesopotamia? | Between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| What is modern day Mesopotamia? | Iraq |
| What is irrigation and when was it created? | Moving water. 6,000 BCE |
| Why do early civilizations start near rivers? | The nearby land is fertile with minerals. |
| Who was Hammurabi? | King of Babylon |
| When did Hammurabi reign? | 1700s BCE |
| Where was the Babylonian Empire? | Most of Mesopotamia |
| What does Bureaucracy mean? | Departments |
| What was the set of laws of the Babylonian Empire called? | The Code of Hammurabi |
| What was the code of Hammurabi? | Eye for an Eye, high class=less punishment |
| When did Ancient Egypt begin? | 3100 BCE |
| What form of writing did Ancient Egyptians use? | Hieroglyphics |
| which way and how far does the Nile flow? | North 4,000 miles |
| What river is Ancient Egypt near? | The Nile |
| What was Ancient Egypt's social structure? | A pyramid |
| What translated hieroglyphics? | Rosetta Stone |
| What was Ancient India called? | Harappa |
| What river was Harappa near? | Indus River |
| What is modern Harappa? | Pakistan (near India) |
| Who lived in Harappa? | Aryans |
| Who migrated to Harappa, brought the caste system, and controlled the natives? | European Nomads |
| What is the caste system? | social level ranking system |
| What were the 3 levels of the caste system? | Priests, Warriors, Workers |
| What were the people outside of the caste system called? | The Untouchables |
| What was Mesoamerica? | Mexico and Central America |
| Why did Mesoamerica start later? | Inhabited later, bad geography, and no beasts of burden (pack animals) |
| What was the Silk Road? | Trade routes for India's empires |
| What was exchanged on the silk road? | silk, jewelry, religion, and culture |
| What was the first Chinese dynasty? | Shang |
| What are the 3 main Chinese dynasties? | Shang, Zhou, Qin |
| Was Greece one big country or city states? | City States |
| Who wrote Odyssey and Iliad? | Homer |
| Who invented drama? | The Greeks |
| Who was all about war? | Sparta |
| Who was all about democracy? | Athens |
| Who conquered most of the Mediterranean by age 20? | Alexander the Great |
| Who had rational thought? | Philosophers |
| What did philosophers want to explain? | Nature without saying "the gods did it" |
| Who questioned everything? | Socrates |
| Who were the 4 big philosophers? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great |
| What method did Socrates create? | Socratic Method |
| What is a direct democracy? | Everyone votes. |
| What is a Republic? | We pick our representatives. |
| Did Sparta or Athens win the Peloponnesian war? | Sparta |
| Who spread Greek empire the farthest? | Alexander the Great |
| Who Started the Hellenistic (golden) Age? | Alexander the Great |
| What was the Roman's government? | Ruled by kings, then republic |
| What were the upper class/land owners of the Romans called? | Patricians |
| What were the lower class/poor of the Romans called? | Plebians |
| Who made Roman laws? | Senate |
| What was the first set of Roman laws called? | The 12 Tables |
| What are two examples of Roman laws? | Innocent until proven guilty, Right to defend self in court |
| Who did the Jews in Israel resist? | Romans |
| When was Jesus born? | 1 CE |
| What did Jews call Jesus? | The Messiah |
| When did Jesus die? | 33 CE |
| What did some Judaism develop into after Jesus' death? | Christianity |
| Where is Mali? | West Africa |
| Why is Mali so rich? | Gold/salt trade |
| What is Mali's capitol? | Timbuktu |
| Who doubled the size of Mali? | Mansa Musa |
| Where did Mansa Musa take tons of Gold? | Mecca |
| What was the largest land empire ever? | The Mongols |
| How was the Mongols military? | Unstoppable, best with guns and horses. |
| What was the Mongols best army? | Golden Horde |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Europe? | Ogedi died. |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Japan? | Huge Storm (Kamikaze) |
| Who was Grandpa of the Mongols? | Genghis Kahn |
| Who was Son of the Mongols? | Ogedi Kahn |
| Who was Grandson of the Mongols? | Kublai Kahn |
| Was the Japanese on big country or small tribes? | Small tribes |
| The Japanese was _____ based. | Agricultural |
| Who did the Aristocrats hire? | Samurai/military servants |
| The Japanese used ________ land system. | Feudal |
| What was the Japanese religion? | Shinto |
| Who did the Japanese worship? | Kami (spirit of ancestors) |
| What was a motive for the Crusades? | Muslims invaded Christian territories |
| Who sent knights on a holy crusade to reclaim the holy lands? | Pope Urban II |
| Who preserved Greek and roman texts? | Muslims |
| Who brought back texts such as Plato/Aristotle? | Crusaders |
| Preserving and bringing back texts led to___________. | Renaissance |
| What was the Renaissance? | Science, Technological advancements, Mathematical advancements, banking |
| What was the Great Schism? | The Split between the Holy Roman Church and Eastern Orthodox |
| What 2 churches were together before 1054? | Holy Roman Church and Eastern Orthodox |
| What differences led to the Great Schism? | Orthodox priests could marry, Orthodox bibles in Greek, Iconoclasm (no praying to icons) |
| Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople _________ each other. | Excommunicated |
| What was the Black Plague called? | Bubonic Plague |
| Where did the plague come from? | Middle East traders and Mongols on the Silk Road |
| The plague killed over _____ of Europe's population. | Half |
| What was the plague transmitted by? | Rodents, Fleas, Bacteria, Human to Human |
| Loss of _______ in Church to protect people. | Faith |
| Plague caused these 4 things. | Decline in church power, mass burials, vampire rumors, medical advancements. |
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