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Pre History to 1500
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Neolithic mean? | New stone |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | old stone |
| What does australopithecine mean? | southern ape |
| what is australopithecine nickname? | Lucy |
| What continent was Lucy found on? | Africa |
| Where was the birthplace if civilization? | Mesopotamia |
| What is a nomadic? | someone with no home and follows food. |
| Mesopotamia is where in our modern day? | Iraq |
| Mesopotamia is in between which two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Irrigation is what? | the moving of water. |
| What is one of the most important events in history? | The Neolithic Revolution |
| When did homo sapiens cross the bearing strait? | 25000 BCE |
| How is race determined? | Climate |
| What species left Africa? | Homo Erectus |
| Where did homo sapiens sapiens originate? | Africa |
| How many years ago were their homo sapiens? | 120000 |
| When did the Neolithic Age take place? | 8000-5000 BCE |
| When people began to settle they had time to do what? | Think |
| When was the first up right hominids? | 3-4 million years ago |
| What is some things in a civilization? | Food Surplus skilled workers complex institutions |
| Why are rivers where early civs start? | They make nearby land fertile with minerals. |
| What is another name for ancient India? | Harappa |
| Who said eye for an eye? | Hammurabi |
| Ancient India is where in modern day? | Pakistan |
| Where did Egypt begin? | Nile Delta |
| Where is Mesoamerica? | Central America |
| When was Olmec around? | 1200 BCE |
| When was Maya around? | 300-900 CE |
| When was Aztec around? | 1100s CE |
| When was Inca around? | 1400s CE |
| Why did America start later? | It was inhabited later |
| Egyptian writings are called what? | Hieroglyphics |
| Which way does he Nile flow and how far? | North and 4000 miles |
| What is rigid social hierarchy? | A ranking system |
| Who was outside the Caste System? | Untouchables |
| What is the Rosetta Stone? | A tablet that had hieroglyphics translated in 3 different ways or languages |
| Why is the Rosetta Stone important? | Without it we wouldn't have been able to read hieroglyphics |
| What does Beast of Burden mean? | Animals that you make work for you |
| When was the Rosetta Stone found? | 1799 |
| What was some of the first known laws in the world? | The Code of Hammurabi |
| What did India's empires use for trade? | The Silk Roads |
| What was transported on the Silk Roads? | Luxury Items |
| What was the first Chinese dynasty? | Shang Dynasty |
| What was used in the Shang Dynasty? | Oracle Bones |
| What was important in the Zhou Dynasty? | The Mandate of Heavan |
| What was built in the Qin Dynasty? | The Great Wall of China |
| What is the only man made thing you can see from space? | The Great Wall of China |
| Who wrote the Odyssey and laid? | Homer |
| Where did western culture come from? | Athens |
| What were the two main cities in Greece? | Athens and Sparta |
| Who was all about war? | Sparta |
| Who was all about democracy? | Athens |
| Who won the Peloponnesian war? | Sparta |
| How long was a man in Sparta in the military? | Until he turned 60 |
| Who conquered most of the Mediterranean? | Alexander the Great |
| What did Alexander the Great start? | The Hellenistic Age |
| What's another name for the Hellenistic Age? | The Golden Age |
| How wanted to explain nature without saying the Gods did it? | Philosophers |
| Which philosopher was a martyr? | Socrates |
| Who did Socrates teach? | Plato |
| Who did Plato teach? | Aristotle |
| Who did Aristotle teach? | Alexander the Great |
| Who was ruled by kings then republic? | Romans |
| Who are the Patricians? | The upper class- land owners |
| Who are the Plebeians? | The lower class- poor, peasants |
| When was Jesus born? | 1 CEish |
| What is the capital of Mali? | Timbuktu |
| Who doubled the size of Mali? | Mansa Musa |
| Who brought tons of gold to Mecca? | Mansa Musa |
| Who had the largest land empire? | The Mongols |
| Who was the best army? | The Golden Horde |
| What did Genghis Kahn do? | Started and spread the Mongols empire |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Europe? | Ogedei died |
| How did Ogedei die? | Shot in the neck with an arrow |
| Yuan dynasty took place when who took over china? | Kublai Kahn |
| What happened in 600"s in Japan? | Yamamoto united |
| What happened in 800"s in Japan? | Civil War |
| What was the main crop in Japan? | Rice |
| What is the religion in Japan? | Shinto |
| What does Animalistic mean? | Spirits in all things |
| Why did the Crusades happen? | Muslims invaded Christian territory |
| What did knights get for kill count in the Crusades? | Penance |
| Why did Pope Urban ll send knights to the middle east? | To reclaim the Holy Lands |
| What did Muslims preserve? | Greek and Roman text |
| What is another word for cultural rebirth? | The renaissance |
| What is the Great Schism? | The split of the church |
| What killed thousands in Europe? | The Bubonic Plague |
| How many did the Plague kill? | Over half of Europe's pop. |
| How was it transmitted by the Mongols? | Through the Silk Roads |
| How was the Plague spread in Europe? | By rats, fleas, and bacteria |
| What did the Plague lead too in Europe? | A loss in faith |
| What was a result in the loss of faith? | Decline in church power |
| Crusaders brought bask text such as... | Plato and Aristotle |
| What was the Crusades? | A war |
| Who was the Crusades between? | Muslims and Christians |
| How was the Black Plague transmitted from the middle east? | By traders |
| What is a positive outcome to the Black Plague? | An advancement in the medical field |
| What is iconoclasm? | The pope outlawed praying to icons |
| What is another name for The Bubonic Plague? | The Black Plague |
| Where did the Black Plague take place? | Europe |
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