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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) First Upright Hominids |
| How long ago was the First hominid found? | 3-4 Million Years Ago |
| What was the first homo sapien called? | Lucy |
| When were homo sapiens around? | 120,000 years ago |
| What are homo sapiens sapiens? | Modern Humans |
| When did the homo sapiens sapiens cross the bearing strait? | 25,000 years ago |
| Where did homo sapiens sapiens originate? | Africa |
| Home erectus left... | Africa |
| What does nomadic mean? | No home |
| The nomadic men... | Hunted |
| The nomadic women... | Gathered |
| What is the "birthplace of civilization"? | Mesopotamia |
| Where is Mesopotamia located? | Between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| What is Mesopotamia known as today? | Iraq |
| What is irrigation? | Moving water |
| When did the Neolithic age take place? | 8000 BCE - 5000 BCE |
| What is the most important event in history? | The Neolithic Revolution (Agriculture) |
| What is civilization? | Food Surplus, Advanced Cities, Advanced technology, Skilled Workers, Complex Institutions-Government and Religion, System of Writing/Record Keeping |
| Why are rivers where early civilizations start? | River makes land nearby fertile with nutrients |
| When did Hammurabi reign? | 1700's BCE |
| What empire did Hammurabi reign over? | Babylonian |
| Where was the Babylonian empire located? | Most of Mesopotamia |
| What was the code of Hammurabi? | Eye for Eye |
| The high class faced less... | Punishment |
| When does Ancient Egypt begin? | 3100 BCE |
| Where does Ancient Egypt begin? | Nile Delta |
| What type of writing did the Ancient Egyptians use? | Hieroglyphics |
| The Nile flows... | North 4000 miles |
| The social structure of Ancient Egypt is... | Pyramids |
| Where is Harappa located? | Ancient India |
| When was the Indus River found? | 3000 BCE |
| What is Harappa known as today? | Pakistan |
| What were the Aryans? | European Nomads |
| What did the Aryans do? | They migrated there, brought caste system, and controlled Natives |
| What is the Caste System? | Rigid Social hierarchy |
| What is the order of the caste system? | 1. Priest 2. Warriors 3. Workers |
| What are the people called that are "Outside of the Caste System? | Untouchables |
| What are the untouchables considered? | Sub-Human |
| The untouchables should not be... | Touched or Spoken to |
| Olmec (Old America) originated... | 1200 BCE- Mexico |
| Maya originated... | 300-900 CE- Mexico |
| Azlec originated... | 1100's CE- Mexico |
| Inca originated... | 1400's CE- Peru |
| No beasts of burden (pack animals) except the stupid... | Llama |
| What is the Silk road? | Trade routes for India's empires |
| What are Camel Caravans? | Camels carrying supplies to and from places |
| Where did camel caravans travel on the Silk Road? | From China to India, Africa, and Europe |
| What was transported on the Silk Road? | Luxury items like Silk, Foreign things |
| On the Silk Road, other things were transported as well, such as... | Religion and Culture |
| What was the 1st Chinese Dynasty? | Shang Dynasty |
| What dynasty was the Mandate of Heaven -(can keep ruling if fair) | Zhou Dynasty |
| Which dynasty created the Great Wall to keep out nomads? | Qin Dynasty |
| How many dynasties were there? | 13 |
| What were these dynasties? | Shang, Zouh, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic, Mao Zedong, De |
| Sparta was all about... | War |
| How long did men stay in military? | Until age 60 |
| How many kings did Sparta have? | Two |
| Athens was all about... | Democracy Demo-people Cracy-ruled by |
| Athens was ran by a _____ Democracy. | Direct Democracy (all vote) |
| Athens unified ______ | Greece |
| Who conquered most of Greece by age 20? | Alexander the Great |
| Alexander the Great spread _____ _____ the furthest. | Greek empire |
| Alexander started the _________ | Hellenistic (Golden) Age |
| Philosophers thought ________ thoughts | Rational |
| The philosophers wanted to explain nature without saying ___________ | "The Gods did it" |
| Who came up with the Socratic Method? | Socrates |
| What did Socrates do? | Committed Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
| What are some philosophers? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great |
| Who were the Romans ran by? | Ruled by kings, then Republic |
| Who elect and make laws in Rome? | People |
| Patricians are the... | Upper Class and land owners |
| Plebians are the... | Lower Class and poor peasants |
| The Senate made... | Laws (Patricians) |
| What were the 12 tables? | First set of Roman Laws |
| What were two laws the Romans had? | 1. Innocent until proven guilty 2. Right to defend self in court |
| The Jews in Israel resisted _______ | Romans |
| Jesus of Nazareth was born... | 1 CE |
| Group of Jews proclaim that Jesus is the ________ | Messiah |
| After Jesus' death in 33 CE, branch of Judaism developed into ________ | Christianity |
| Where is Mali located? | West Africa |
| What kind of trading is found in Mali? | Gold and Salt |
| The capitol of Mali is _______ | Timbuktu |
| Mansa Musa ________ the size of Mali | Doubled |
| The Malians went to _______, as Muslim | Mecca |
| They literally brought tons of ______ | Gold |
| Who has the largest land empire ever? | The Mongols |
| The _______ Military is unstoppable | Mongol |
| The Mongols were the best with ____ and _______ | Guns and horses |
| The _______ ________ conquered Russia | Golden Horde (Best Army) |
| The reason the Mongols didn't take over Europe is because... | The leader Ogedei died and they returned to Mongolia |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Japan? | Huge Storms. (Kamikaze) (divine winds) stop Mongols |
| Genghis Kahn... | Started and Spread Mongolian Empire |
| Ogedei... | Died in Poland |
| Kublai Kahn | Took China and called it Yuan Dynasty |
| The Japanese is made up of small________ not one big country | Tribes |
| In the 600's, ________ unites, divine ruler | Yamamoto |
| In the 800's, the _________ began | Civil War |
| In Japan, Aristocrats hire _______ military servants. | Samurai |
| What is the Samurai code? | Bushido |
| Japan was _______ based | Agricultural |
| Japan used _______ land systems. | Feudal |
| The religion of Japan was _________ | Shinto |
| Japanese worshipped ________ | Kami (spirits of ancestors) |
| What were the motives for the crusades?" | 1. Muslim invasion of "Christian" territories. 2. Knights get penance for kill count or dying on a crusade |
| Who sent knights on holy crusade to Middle East to reclaim the Holy Lands? | Pope Urban II |
| Muslims preserved _______ and ________ texts. | Greek, Roman |
| Crusaders brought back texts such as ________ and _______ | Plato, Aristotle |
| What is the Renaissance? | The cultural rebirth. (Science, technological advancements, mathematical advancement, banking) |
| What is the Great Schism? | Great Split |
| Who split during the Great Schism? | The Holy Roman Church and Eastern Orthodox |
| When did the Great Schism happen? | 1054 |
| What were some differences that led to split? | 1. Only orthodox priest could marry 2. Orthodox Bibles in Greek, not Latin 3. Iconoclasm- Pope outlawed praying to icons(pictures), and it angered the Eastern Orthodox |
| Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople __________ each other, caused rift, exists today. | Excommunicated |
| What was the Black Plague also referred as? | Bubonic Plague |
| Where was the Bubonic Plague transmitted from? | Middle East |
| What transmitted the Bubonic Plague? | Traders, Rodents, Fleas, Bacteria |
| How much of Europe's pop. did the Bubonic Plague kill? | Half (1/2) |
| Brought by Mongols on the _______ ________ | Silk Road |
| Loss of ______ in church to protect people. | Faith |
| The loss of Faith in Church to protect people led to... | 1. Decline in Church Power 2. Mass burials 3. Vampire rumors 4. Medical advancements |
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