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Prehistory to 1500
Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Neolithic mean? | New Stone |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | Old Stone |
| What is the nickname for Australopithecines? | Lucy |
| What is Australopithecines? | First upright hominids |
| Where did we first originate? | Africa |
| Spread means? | Take over |
| Nomadic means? | Follow food (No home) |
| When did Paleolithic age take place? | 3-4 mil yrs ago |
| When did Neolithic age take place? | 8000-5000 BCE |
| What is a civilization? | 1.) Food surplus 2.) Advanced cites 3.) Advanced technology 4.) Skilled workers 5.) Complex institution- government, religion 6.) System of writing/record keeping |
| What is Mesopotamia? | Birthplace of civilization |
| Race is determined by what? | Climate |
| When does our calendar start? | The day Jesus was born |
| What did men and women do? | Men hunted and women gathered food |
| Homo sapiens? | Modern humans |
| Where did Mesopotamia take place? | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
| What is irrigation? | moving water |
| We have common history with? | Apes |
| When food and security is taken care of your culture will? | Flourish |
| Native Americans are? | People native to one place |
| Rivers are where? | Early civilization starts |
| Rivers make land nearby? | Fertile with minerals |
| Hammurabi reigned in? | 1700s BCE |
| Babylonian Empire? | Most of Mesopotamia |
| Centralized Bureaucracy? | Compartments/ Departments |
| Ancient Egypt begins in? | 3100 BCE in Nile Delta |
| Writing is known as? | Hieroglyphics |
| The Nile flows? | North 4,000 miles |
| Social structure? | Pyramid |
| Mesopotamia is located? | Between rivers |
| Harappa means? | Ancient India |
| Ancient India is now known as? | Modern day Pakistan |
| European nomads migrated to Ancient India and brought caste system which controlled? | Natives |
| Caste system is? | Rigid social hierarchy |
| Caste is? | Social level |
| The caste system consist of? | 1.) Priest 2.) Warriors 3.) Workers |
| Outside the caste system is? | Untouchables |
| Meso America is? | Mexico/ Central America |
| Olmec? | 1200 BCE- Mexico |
| Maya? | 300-900 CE -Mexico |
| Aztec? | 1100s CE - Mexico |
| Inca? | 1400s CE - Peru |
| Silk roads are? | Trade routes for India's empire |
| Camel Caravans road from? | China to India, Africa, and Europe |
| Luxury items were? | Silk, Spices, And Jewelry |
| Shang Dynasty was the? | 1st Dynasty and invented writing |
| Zhou Dynasty? | Mandate of Heaven |
| Qin Dynasty? | Great Wall- kept out nomads |
| Homer wrote? | Odyssey and lliad |
| Athens? | Source of western culture All about democracy, all vote Unified Greece Lost to Sparta, Peloponnesian war |
| Sparta? | All about war Strict, men in military until 60 Isolated, oligarchy (two kings) |
| Alexander the Great? | Conquered most of Mediterranean by age 20 |
| Spread Greek empire furthest from? | India to Egypt |
| Alexander started Hellenistic? | Golden age |
| how many Chinese dynasties? | 13 |
| How many silk roads? | Many |
| Philosophers? | 'Love of wisdom' rational thought |
| Philosophers wanted to explain nature without saying? | "The gods did it" |
| Socrates Method? | Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
| Who were some Philosophers? | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the great |
| The Romans were ruled by? | Kings then Republic |
| Patricians? | Upper class- Land owners |
| Plebeians? | Lower class- Poor, Peasants |
| Senate? | Made laws |
| First set of Roman laws? | Innocent until proven guilty Right to depend self in court |
| Jews in Israel resisted? | Romans |
| Jesus of Nazareth born? | 1 CEish, small group of Jews proclaim Messiah |
| After Jesus death in 33 CE? | Branch of Judaism developed into Christianity |
| Mali is located in? | West Africa |
| Mali is the capital at? | Timbuktu |
| The Mongols had? | Largest land empire ever |
| Mongols military was unstoppable and best with? | Guns and horses |
| Golden Horde (best army) conquered? | Russia |
| Genghis Kahn (grandpa)? | Started and spread empire |
| Ogedi Kahn (son)? | Died and Poland |
| Kublai Kahn (grandson)? | Took china called it yuan dynasty |
| In Japanese beginnings they had? | Small tribes, not one big country |
| In 600s yamamoto? | Unites, divides ruler |
| In 800s Japan? | Civil war |
| Agricultural was based off? | Rice |
| Japan used which type of land system/ | Feudal |
| Japans religion was? | Shinto |
| Motives for the crusades 1? | Muslim invasion of Christian territories |
| Motives for the crusades 2? | Knights get penance for kill count or dying on crusades |
| Pope Urban 2 sent knights on holy crusades to Middle east to? | Reclaim the holy lands |
| Muslims preserved what text? | Greek and Roman |
| Crusades brought text such as? | Plato |
| Crusades bringing text lead to? | Renaissance (culture of birth) |
| Great Schism stands for? | The split |
| Only which priest could marry? | Orthedox |
| Orthedox bibles were written in Greek not? | Latin |
| Pope outlawed praying icons (pictures)? | Iconoclasm |
| Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other, caused? | rift, exist today |
| Another name for black plague? | Bubonic plague |
| Black plague Transmitted from? | Middle east by traders |
| Black plague killed? | 1/2 of Europe's population |
| Black plague was brought by? | Mongols on the silk road |
| Black plague was transmitted by? | Rodents, fleas, bacteria, and human to human |
| Loss of faith in church to protect people? | Decline in church power Mass burials Vampire rumors Medical advancements |
| What differences in the two churches (Roman church and eastern orthdodox) led them to spilt? | Only orthodox persist could marry, bible was written in Latin |
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