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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? | Southern ape |
| What are modern humans considered? | Homo sapiens sapiens |
| What is the name also given to australopithecines? | Lucy |
| What is the most important event in history? | Agriculture(Neolithic Revolution) |
| When your(1)_____ and (2)______ is taken care of, your culture will flourish. | (1)Food (2)Security |
| When did homo sapiens sapiens cross the Bering straight? | 25,000 BCE |
| Where was "Lucy" discovered? | Africa |
| What did nomads do? | Followed their food source |
| Mesopotamia is know as? | Birthplace of civilization |
| Where is Mesopotamia found? | The land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| Mesopotamia is in what modern day country? | Iraq |
| Men(1)_____ and women(2)______. | (1) Hunted (2) Gathered |
| Food surplus, advanced cities, advanced technology, skilled workers, complex institutions(government, religion) and a system of writing are all part of what? | Civilization |
| What were australopithecines? | First upright hominids |
| When were homo sapiens around? | 120,000 BCE |
| When did the Neolithic revolution take place? | 5,000 BCE |
| When were australopithecines around? | 3-4 billion years ago |
| Why was the Neolithic revolution so important? | It was the first time that people had time to think and allowed their culture to grow |
| Homo Erectus left where? | Africa |
| Earliest civilizations start where? | Near or on rivers |
| Why do civilizations start near or on rivers? | The rivers make the land nearby fertile with minerals |
| What was the code of Hammurabi? | An eye for an eye |
| What is a beast of burden? | animal/s that help makes thing easier |
| When does Egypt rise? | 3,100 BCE |
| Where does Egypt begin to rise? | The Nile delta |
| What are the writings in Ancient Egypt called? | hieroglyphics |
| Why is the Rosetta stone important? | It help translate Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| Who were at the top 3 classes of Egyptian social pyramid? | The pharaoh, his advisers(viziers), and Priests |
| What was the caste system? | A rigid social hierarchy |
| What were the parts of caste system? | Priest, warriors, and the common workers |
| What group was on the outside of the caste system? | The untouchables |
| What were the untouchables considered? | Sub-human, shouldn't be spoken to unless you are an untouchable as well |
| What Meso American civilization were around during 1,200 BCE? | The Olmec(Mexico) |
| The Meso American civilization during 300-900 CE? | The Maya(Mexico) |
| Meso American civilization around 1100's CE? | Aztecs(Mexico) |
| The Meso American civilization from Peru around 1400's? | Inca |
| Why did they get settled later? | They didn't have any beasts of burden to help them get established. |
| What is Harappa? | Another name for ancient India |
| Where was Harappa? | Next to the Indus River |
| Where is Harappa in modern day? | Pakistan |
| What was the silk road? | Trade routes for India's empire |
| Camel caravans went from where to where? | China to India, Africa, and Europe |
| What was traded on the Silk road? | Luxury items |
| What were some of the luxury items traded? | Silk, spices, salt, and cloth |
| What was the Shang dynasty known for? | Oracle bones |
| What was the Zhoe dynasty know for? | Started the mandate of heaven |
| What is the Qin dynasty for? | Great wall |
| What was the Great wall used to do? | To keep out nomads |
| What did ancient Greece consist of? | City states |
| What did Homer write? | The Odyssey and Iliad |
| Athens is know as what? | Source of western culture |
| What is the west? | Europe and The US |
| What is one big thing from Greece we use today? | Drama |
| The Peloponnesian war was between who? | Athens and Sparta |
| Who won the Peloponnesian war? | Sparta |
| The Spartans were all about what? | War |
| Men from Sparta had to stay in Military till they are what age? | 60 |
| What type of government did Sparta have? | Oligarchy |
| What was Athens all about? | Democracy |
| What kind of Democracy did Athens have? | Direct democracy |
| How does a direct democracy work? | Everyone votes on what happens |
| Athens did what to Greece? | Unified Greece |
| Alexander the Great was? | A man who controlled most of the Mediterranean by the age of 20 |
| What did Alexander the Great do? | He started the Golden age |
| Philosophers want to do what? | Explain the world without saying that god did it |
| What does SPAA stand for? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great |
| What was the Roman government | They had a King, later Republic |
| Patricians were? | Upper class people in Rome, owned land |
| Plebeians were? | Lower class, peasants, poor people |
| What part of Roman government do we us in American government? | The senate |
| What were the 12 tables? | First set of Roman laws |
| Where is Mali located? | West Africa |
| What is its capital? | Timbuktu |
| Who was the man who doubled the size of Mali? | Mansa Musa |
| Mansa Musa went to where as a Muslim? | Mecca |
| What did Mansa Musa literally bring tons of to Mecca? | Gold |
| What are the Mongols known for? | Having the largest land empire to this day |
| Why were the Mongol military forces unstoppable? | They were good with horses and guns |
| What was the Mongol armies know as? | The Golden Horde |
| What stopped the Mongols from taking over the rest of Europe? | Ogedi died in battle |
| What stopped the Mongols from taking over Japan? | Kamikaze(Divine winds) |
| What is Genghis Kahn known for? | Starting the spread of Mongolian empire |
| What is Ogedi Kahn known for? | Dying in Poland |
| What is Kublia Kahn known for? | Took over China called the Yuan dynasty |
| Japanese people lived in what? | Small tribes |
| What happened in Japan in the 600's? | Yamamuta unites Japan |
| Yamamuta was what? | Divine ruler who united Japan |
| What happened during the 800's in Japan? | Civil War |
| What did Aristocrats hire for protection? | Samurais |
| What code did Samurais follow? | Bushido, always have honor |
| What were the Crusades? | Wars against the Christians and the Muslims |
| What did knights get for killing Muslims? | They got penance for every kill |
| What texts did the Muslims preserve? | Ancient Greek and Roman works |
| What kinds of works did the Crusaders take back from the Muslims? | Works from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle |
| What was the Great Schism? | Split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Holy Roman church |
| What was the bubonic plague know as? | Black Plague |
| Black Plague killed how many people? | Half the population |
| Who brought the Black Plague? | The Mongols on the Silk road |
| How was the Black Plague transmitted? | By fleas that lived on rats |
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