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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 does Australopithecines mean and its nickname? | Southern Ape & Lucy |
| Homo sapiens lived | 120000 years ago |
| Where was Lucy founded | Africa |
| What are we considered as humans | Homo sapiens sapiens |
| All humans can trace their heritage to | Africa |
| Nomads travel | to follow food |
| When was the Neolithic Age? | 8000 to 5000 BCE |
| A civilization is | A surplus in food Advanced cities Advanced technology Hard workers Government and religion System of writing/record keeping |
| Mesopotamia is also known as | the middle of rivers |
| The birthplace of civilization | Mesopotamia |
| Where is the Mesopotamia located | Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
| Where is modern day Mesopotamia | Iraq |
| With a sense of safety, what did this give people time to do | Think |
| What determines race | Climate. The closer to the equator the darker the skin. |
| When did people first cross the Bearing Straight | 25000 BCE |
| Spread means to | Take over |
| Men________, women________ | Men hunted, women gathered |
| What was the most important event in history | Neolithic Age |
| Why are rivers where early civilizations start? | They have fertile land with minerals |
| When did Hammurabi reign? | 1700s BCE |
| What empire ruled most of Mesopotamia? | Babylonian Empire |
| The code of Hammurabi was | Eye for an eye |
| Ancient Egypt begins in | 3100 BCE |
| How did Ancient Egypt write | Hieroglyphics |
| The Nile | Flows north about 4000 miles |
| The Harappa is | Ancient India |
| What river was founded in India in 3000 BCE | Indus River |
| European nomads did what | Migrated there Brought caste system Controlled natives |
| The Caste System had a rigid social ______ | Hierarchy |
| Caste means | Social level |
| The levels in the caste system were | 1. Priests 2. Warriors ^Aryans ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. Workers (Natives) Dravidians |
| People outside of the caste system are called | Untouchables. They are considered sub human. |
| Mesoamerica's geography was considered bad because | They had mountains and deserts. |
| 1200 BCE - Mexico | Olmec |
| 300-900 CE - Mexico | Maya |
| 1100s CE - Mexico | Aztec |
| 1400s CE - Peru | Inca |
| Beasts of burden were | Pack animals |
| Silk road was what and what was is used for | Trade routes for India's empire; changing luxury items like silk, jewelry, and other foreign things |
| How many Chinese dynasty's were there | 13 |
| What was the first Chinese Dynasty | Shang |
| The Zhou dynasty included | Mandate of Heaven which means the ruler can keep ruling if they are fair |
| The Qin dynasty built | The Great Wall of China which kept the nomads out |
| The Greeks were not one big country they were | City states |
| Homer wrote | Odyssey and Iliad |
| Athens were | The source of Western culture |
| Sparta was all about | War |
| Athens were all about | Democracy |
| Alexander the Great conquered most of | The Medierranean by age 20 |
| Philosophers beleived in | Love of Wisdom or rational thought |
| Philosophers wanted to explain nature without saying | The Gods did it |
| Socrates beleived in _______ instead of trial for corrupting youth | Suicide |
| Socrates tought | Plato |
| Plato taught | Aristotle |
| Aristotle taught | Alexander the Great |
| Alexander the Great started the | Hellenistic (golden) Age |
| Sparta government was | Isolated, two kings |
| Athens lost to who in the Peloponnesian War | Sparta |
| The Romans were ruled by _____, then ______ | Kings, Republic |
| Patricians are | Upper class, land owners |
| Plebeians are | Lower class, poor, peasents |
| The senate did what | Made laws (Patricians) |
| 12 tables were | First set of Roman laws |
| Roman Jews were | Jews in Israel that resisted Romans |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Born in 1 CE, some Jews all him the Messiah |
| What happened after Jesus' death in 33 CE | Branch of Judism developed into Christianity |
| Mali is also known as | West Africa |
| Capital of Mali is | Timbucktu |
| Went to Mecca as | A Muslim |
| Brought tons of | Gold |
| The Mongls had the largest | Land empire ever |
| Which army conquered Russia | Golden Horde |
| What stops the Mongols | Kamikaze (divine winds) |
| Genghis Kahn (grandpa) did what | Started and spread the empire |
| Japanese Beginnings were small tribes, not | Just one big country |
| Used _____ land system | Feudal |
| Kublai Kahn (grandson) did what | Took China and called it Yuan Dynasty |
| Aristocrats hire | Samuris or military servants |
| One motive for the crusades was | Muslim invasion of "Christian" territories |
| Another moive for the crusades was | Knights get penance for kill count or dying on a crusade |
| Muslims preserved | Greek and Roman texs |
| European interactions with Muslims eventually lead to | Renaissance (cultural rebirth) |
| The only people who could marry were | Orthodox priests |
| Orthodox bibles were in ______, not Latin | Greek |
| Another name for the black plague is | The bubonic plague |
| Black plague came from ______ by _______ | Middle East, traders |
| How much of Europes pop. did the black plague kill | About 1/2 |
| Loss of faith in Church to protect people led to | -Decline in churches power -Mass burials -Vampire rumors -Medical advancements |
| Pope (papa) and Patriarch of Constantinople ________each other, caused rift, exists today | Excommunicated |
| Renaisance led to advancements in | Science, technological advancements, mathematical advancements, and banking |
| Pope Urban II sent knights to | Reclaim land |
| Crusades brought back texts from | Plato & Socrates |
| Bubonic plague was transmitted by | Rodents, fleas, bacteria, human to human |
| Pope outlawing praying to icons which was called | Iconoclasm |
| Catholic also means | Universal |
| What the two sides fight for | The two holy lands |
| What is a scism | Split |
| Black plague produced | Medical advancements |
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