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Pre-History to 1500
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Neolithic mean? | New stone |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | Old stone |
| What does Australopithecines mean? | Southern ape |
| What was Australopithecines nickname? | Lucy |
| Where did Australopithecines originate from? | Africa |
| What does Nomadic mean? | No home |
| What was the most important event in history? | Agriculture (Neolithic Revolution) |
| What is civilization? | Food Surplus, Advanced Cities, Advanced Technology, Skilled Workers, Complex Institutions(government, religion), And System of writing/ record keeping |
| What is the birthplace of civilization? | Mesopotamia |
| Where is the birthplace of civilization located? | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
| Where is modern day Mesopotamia located? | Iraq |
| What is your race determined by? | Climate |
| What is Irrigation? | Moving water to crops |
| What roles did woman and men have? | Men hunted, Women gathered |
| What is a Homo Sapien? | modern humans |
| What did the Homo Sapiens Sapiens cross? | the bearing strait |
| What did Mesopotamia have? | Political and military orginizations |
| How long ago was Australopithecines? | 3-4 Million years ago |
| When was the Neolithic Age? | 8000-5000 BCE |
| When was Homo Sapiens Sapiens created? | 30,000 BCE |
| Why are rivers where early civilizations start? | River makes land nearby fertile with minerals. |
| When did Hammurabi reign? | 1700s BCE |
| What was the code of Hammurabi? | eye for eye, high class= less punishment |
| When did Ancient Egypt begin? | 3100 BCE |
| What kind of writing did Ancient Egypt have? | Hieroglyphics |
| Where did the Nile River flow? | North |
| How long was the Nile River? | 4,000 miles |
| What was the social structure for Ancient Egypt? | A pyramid |
| When was the Rosetta Stone found? | 1799 |
| What was the Rosetta Stone? | Has the same text in 3 translations: Hieroglyphics; demotic and Classical. |
| Where was Harappa? | Ancient India |
| What river was in Harappa? | The Indus River |
| What was the Aryans? | European Nomads |
| What did the European Nomads do? | Migrated there, brought caste system, controlled natives |
| What was the Caste System? | Rigid social hierarchy |
| What does Hierarchy mean? | Ranking System |
| What are the 3 levels of the Caste System? | 1. Priests 2. Warriors 3. Workers |
| Who were considered outsiders of the Caste System? | The untouchables |
| What did the untouchables do? | Touch dead bodies/ waste |
| Should the Untouchables be touched or spoken to? | No |
| What were the Untouchables considered? | Sub-Human |
| Where is Mesoamerica? | Mexico and Central America |
| Where is Olmec located? | Mexico ( Old Mexico) 1200 BCE |
| Where was Maya located? | Mexico 300-900 CE |
| Where was Aztec located? | Mexico 1100s CE |
| Where was Inca located? | Peru 1400s CE |
| Why was Mesoamerica started later? | Inhabited later, bad geography(mountains/deserts) |
| What was the Silk Roads used for? | Trade routes for India's empires. |
| What are Camels? | "desert ships" |
| Where did the Camel Caravans travel? | China to India, Africa and Europe |
| What did the Camel Caravans carry? | Luxury items such as silk jewlery |
| What did the Camel Caravan exchange? | Religion and Culture |
| What are the Chinese Dynasties? | Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic, Mao Zedong, De! |
| What was the first Chinese Dynasty? | Shang Dynasty |
| What is Oracle Bones? | questions carved about the future |
| What is the Mandate of Heaven? | can keep ruling if fair |
| What did the Great wall of China do? | keep out nomads |
| What can be seen from space? | The Great Wall of China |
| What did Homer write? | Odyssey and the Iliad |
| What was the source of the western culture? | Athens |
| What was considered Western Civilization? | Western Europe and US |
| Sparta was all about what? | War |
| What age were men required to stay in the military for? | 60 |
| Sparta had what kind of ruling system? | Oligarchy |
| Oligarchy means what? | ruled by few |
| The Athens were all about what? | Democracy |
| What does Direct Democracy mean? | All vote |
| What war did the Athens lose to Sparta in? | Peloponnesian War |
| Alexander The Great conquered what area by 20? | The Mediterranean |
| What age did Alexander The Great start? | The Hellenistic Age |
| What does rational thought mean? | Explaining nature without saying the gods did it |
| What was the Socratic Method? | Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
| What does the acronym SPAA mean? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander The Great |
| What is a Martyr? | Someone who dies for a cause |
| What was the Romans system of law? | Ruled by kings, then Republic |
| What are Patricians? | Upper Class- land owners |
| What are Plebeians? | Lower class- poor, peasants |
| What is the Senate? | They make laws (Patricians) |
| What is the 12 tables? | first set of Roman Laws |
| What are examples of the Roman Laws? | Innocent until proven guilty, right to defend self in court |
| When was Jesus born? | 1 CE |
| When did Jesus die? | 33CE |
| Where is Mali located? | West Africa |
| Where is the capital of Mali? | Timbuktu |
| What did Mansa Musa do? | doubled the size of Mali |
| Where did Mansa Musa go? | Mecca |
| What did Mansa Musa bring with him to Mecca? | Tons of gold |
| Who had the largest land empire? | The Mongols |
| What were the Mongols best with? | guns and horses |
| The Golden Horde conquered which country? | Russia |
| What were some important Mongols? | Genghis Khan, Ogedi Khan, Kublal Khan, |
| What did Genghis Khan do? | started and spread empire |
| What did Ogedi Khan do? | Died in Poland |
| What did Kublal Khan do? | Took China and called it Yuan Dynasty |
| The Japanese Cultures was what instead of one big country? | small tribes |
| What is Bushido? | Samurai code |
| What did the Aristocrats hire? | The Samurai |
| What agriculture aspect did Japan have? | rice |
| What were the motives of the Crusaders? | Muslim invasion, Knights get penance for the kill count |
| What text did the Crusaders bring back with them? | Plato |
| What does Great Schism mean? | to split |
| What differences in the two churches( The Holy Roman Church and Eastern Church) led them to split? | Only Orthodox priests could marry , Orthodox Bibles not latin |
| Crusades bringing text led to what? | Renaissance |
| What did the Crusaders bring with them? | Science, Technological advances, mathematical advancement, banking |
| What did the pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople do? | excommunicated each other, caused riot, exists today |
| What were the causes of the Black Plague? | Transmitted from the middle east by traders |
| What is another name for the Black Plague? | Bubonic Plague |
| How many people did the Black Plague kill? | More than 1/2 of Europe's population |
| Who brought the Black plague with them? | The Mongols |
| What road did the Mongols bring the Black Plague on? | The silk roads |
| What was the Black Plague transmitted by? | rodents, fleas, bacteria, Human to Human |
| What did loss of faith in Church to protect people do? | decline in church power, mass burials, vampire rumors, medical advancements |
| what did the Muslims preserve? | Greek and Muslims texts |
| Why did the Pope Urban II send knights on holy crusade to Middle East? | to reclaim the Holy Lands |
| What did the Pope outlaw? | praying to icons(pictures) |
| Where did the Muslims invade? | Christian Territory |
| What did the Knights get from dying on crusade? | Penance |
| When did the Holy Roman church and the Eastern church split? | before 1054 |
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