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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 |
| When did the Australopithecines live? | 3-4 million years ago |
| What was the first discovered Australopithecine called? | Lucy |
| What does Australopithecine mean? | Southern ape |
| When did Homo Sapiens live? | 120,000 years ago |
| When did Homo Sapiens Sapiens cross the bearing strait? | 25,000 BCE |
| What are Homo Sapiens Sapiens? | Modern humans |
| Where did the Homo Sapiens Sapiens originate from? | Africa |
| What does nomadic mean? | To follow food, no home |
| When was the Neolithic Age? | 8,000-5,000 BCE |
| What was the most important event in history? | Agriculture (Neolithic Revolution) |
| What is a civilization? | 1. food surplus 2. advanced cities 3. advanced technology 4. skilled workers 5. complex institutions-government, religion 6. system of writing-record keeping |
| What was the birthplace of civilization? | Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Where would Mesopotamia be located today? | Modern day Iraq |
| When did irrigation start? | 6,000 BCE |
| What species left Africa? | Homo Erectus |
| What was so significant about the Neolithic Age? | The tools the people used |
| When the people settled they had time to what? | Think |
| Where did most early civilizations settle? | next to rivers |
| Why did most civilizations start next to rivers? | The land nearby was fertile with minerals |
| Who was the King of Babylon? | Hammurabi |
| When did Hammurabi reign? | 1700s BCE |
| What was the Code of Hammurabi? | Eye for an eye |
| What was the difference between the low and high class? | The high class received less punishment |
| What is a Centralized Bureaucracy? | compartments/departments that make up a civilization |
| When did Ancient Egypt begin? | 3100 BCE |
| Where did Ancient Egypt begin? | In the Nile Delta |
| What was Ancient Egyptian writing called? | Hieroglyphics |
| What is significant about the Nile river? | It flows North |
| How long is the Nile river? | 4,000 miles |
| The Egyptian social structure is in the shape of what? | A pyramid |
| Who is at the top of the Egyptian social structure? | Pharaoh |
| Who is at the bottom of the Egyptian social structure? | soldiers, farmers, and tomb builders |
| Harappa is also known as what? | Ancient India |
| Ancient India was located next to what river? | Indus River |
| Where would Ancient India be located today? | Modern day Pakistan |
| What was the Caste System? | A rigid social hierarchy/ranking system |
| Who was at the top of the Caste System? | Priests and warriors (Aryans) |
| Who was at the bottom of the Caste System? | Workers- natives (Dravidians) |
| Who was outside of the Caste System? | The untouchables |
| When did the Olmec reign? | 1200 BCE- Mexico |
| When did the Aztecs reign? | 300-900 CE- Mexico |
| When did the Mayans reign? | 1100s CE Mexico |
| When did the Incas reign? | 1400s CE- Peru |
| What were the Silk Roads? | Trade routes for India's empires |
| Camel caravans traveled where? | From India to China, Africa and Europe |
| Camels were also known as what? | Desert ships |
| What was carried on the Silk Roads? | Luxury items like spices, silk, jewelry, etc. |
| What was exchanged on the Silk Roads? | religion and culture |
| What was the first Chinese Dynasty? | Shang Dynasty |
| Which dynasty created the Mandate of Heaven? | Zhou |
| Which dynasty constructed the Great Wall? | Qin |
| What did the Great Wall do? | Kept out nomads |
| Ancient Greece was broken up into what? | City states |
| What did Homer write? | Iliad and the Odyssey |
| What was the source of Western culture? | Athens |
| The Greeks invented what? | Drama |
| Sparta was all about what? | War |
| How long did Spartan men stay in the military? | Until age 60 |
| Athens was all about what? | Democracy |
| What does democracy mean? | Ruled by the people |
| What does it mean to have a direct democracy? | Everyone votes |
| Athens did what? | Unified Greece |
| Athens lost to Sparta in what war? | Peloponnesian War |
| Alexander the Great conquered most of the Mediterranean by the age of what? | 20 |
| What did Alexander the Great start? | Golden Age |
| Philosophers were lovers of what? | Wisdom "rational thought" |
| What did Philosophers want to do? | Explain nature without saying the gods did it |
| How did Socrates die? | He committed suicide |
| Who were other famous philosophers? | Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great |
| The Romans were ruled by kings at first, but then by what? | a republic |
| What is difference between a direct democracy and a republic? | Direct democracy- everyone votes / Republic- people pick representatives |
| What were Patricians? | upper class- land owners |
| What were Plebeians? | lower class- poor, peasants |
| The senate made what? | Laws |
| What were the 12 Tables? | first set of Roman laws |
| What did Jews in Israel do? | Resist Romans |
| Jesus of Nazareth was born when? | 1 CE |
| Mali is located where? | West Africa |
| What was Mali's capital? | Timbuktu |
| Who doubled the size of Mali? | Mansa Musa |
| Mansa Musa went to where as a Muslim? | Mecca |
| What did Mansa Musa bring back? | Tons of gold |
| The Mongols had the largest what? | Land empire |
| The Mongol military was what? | Unstoppable |
| The Mongols were best with what? | guns and horses |
| Which army conquered Russia? | Golden Horde |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Europe? | Ogedei died |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Japan? | huge storms (kamikaze) (divine winds) |
| Where did Ogedei die? | Poland |
| Kublai took China and called it what? | Yuan Dynasty |
| What are the Chinese Dynasties? | Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic, Mao Zedong, De |
| Who started the Mongol Empire? | Genghis Khan |
| Japan started as what? | small tribes |
| Who was the divine ruler in the 600s? | Yamamoto |
| Aristocrats hired who as military servants? | Samurais |
| What is Bushido? | Samurai Code |
| What did the Japanese grow a lot of? | Rice |
| What kind of land system did the Japanese use? | feudal |
| What was the main Japanese religion ? | Shinto |
| What does Animistic mean? | spirits in all things |
| What was the main motive for the Crusades? | Muslims invaded Christian territories |
| Who sent knights on a holy crusade to the Middle East to reclaim the holy lands? | Pope Urban II |
| Knights get what for kill count or dying on a crusade? | Penance |
| Muslims preserved Greek and Roman what? | texts |
| Crusaders brought back texts such as? | Plato and Aristotle |
| The crusades led to what? | The Renaissance |
| What came along during the Renaissance? | science, technological advancements, mathematical advancement, banking |
| What two churches were in Greece and Turkey? | Holy Roman/Eastern Orthodox |
| Only Orthodox priests could what? | Marry |
| Orthodox Bibles were written in what language? | Greek |
| What was Iconoclasm? | when the Pope outlawed praying to icons |
| What did the Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople do? | Excommunicated each other |
| What is another name for the Black Plague? | Bubonic Plague |
| Where was the bubonic plague transmitted from? | The Middle East |
| Who transmitted the bubonic plague? | Traders |
| The bubonic killed how much of Europe's population? | Over half |
| The plague was brought to Europe by who? | Mongols on the Silk Road |
| The plague was transmitted by what animal? | the fleas on rats |
| During the plague what was lost in the church? | Faith |
| What kind of rumors started during the plague? | vampire rumors |
| There was a decline in what during the plague? | Church power |
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