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prehistory to 1500
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does neolithic mean? | New Stone |
| What does paleolithic mean? | Old Stone |
| What is a nick name for australopithecines? | Lucy |
| How many years ago was Homo Sapiens? | 120,000 |
| Who was Lucy? | The first human-like creature |
| Homo Erectus left where? | Africa |
| Where did homo sapiens sapiens originate from? | Africa |
| What did Nomadics do? | Followed food |
| What did the nomadic men and women do? | The Men Hunted And The Women Gathered |
| What does DNA prove? | We all come from one place. |
| Where do we all come from. | Africa |
| What Is Neolithic age? | The tools people use |
| Agriculture is? | Neolithic Revolution |
| What age is the most important event of history | Neolithic |
| In a civilization what do you need that is advanced? | Cities and Technology |
| what is race determined by? | Climate |
| Mesopotamia is the birthplace of what? | civilization |
| Between which two rivers can you find Mesopotamia? | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
| Mesopotamia is what? | modern day iraq |
| Irrigation is? | moving water |
| Why are rivers where early civilization start? | Rivers make land nearby fertile with minerals |
| What empire is Most of Mesopotamia? | Babylonian |
| What is are centralized Bureaucracy? | Compartments/departments |
| That code of what is an eye for an eye? | Hammurabi |
| High class equals? | less punishment |
| Ancient Egypt begins when and where? | 3100 BCE in Nile delta |
| What flows North 4,000 into the Mediterranean sea? | The Nile |
| What shape is the social structure? | Pyramid |
| What's Ancient India? | Harappa |
| Who migrated to the Indus River in 3000 BCE and Modern Pakistan? | Aryans --- European Nomads |
| Who controlled the Natives and brought caste system? | European Nomads |
| What is the Caste system? | Rigid social hierarchy |
| Caste is a what? | Social level |
| Who are outside of the Caste system? | The Untouchables |
| Why are the untouchables outside of the caste system? | They are considered sub-human and should not be touched or spoken to |
| Who are at the top of the Caste social scale? | The priests then the warriors. |
| Meso America is? | Mexico/ Central America |
| Olmec is? | Old Mexico in1200 BCE |
| The Maya existed when and where? | 300-900 CE in Mexico |
| The Aztecs existed when and where? | 1100s CE in Mexico |
| The Incas existed when and where? | 1400s CE in Peru |
| When did it start and why? | Started later because inhabited later - bad geography |
| What are silk roads? | Trade Routes for India's empires |
| What is a Camel Caravan? | desert ships from China to India, Africa, and Europe |
| What did the Caravan carry? | Luxury items such as Silk Jewelry |
| Which Chinese dynasty was the first dynasty? | Shang |
| What did the Shang dynasty use to ask questions on that they wanted answered? | Oracle Bones |
| In what Dynasty was the Mandate of Heaven? | Zhou |
| Mandate of heaven means? | Can keep ruling if fair |
| Why was the great wall built? | to keep the nomads out |
| Which Dynasty was around when the great wall was made? | Qin |
| Who were not one governed country? | The Greeks |
| What was the source of Western Culture? | Athens |
| who is about war? | Sparta |
| Who is Strict and has men in the military until 60? | Sparta |
| Sparta is isolated and has what type of government? | Oligarchy (two kings) - ruled by few |
| Athens is all about what? | Democracy |
| What type of government does Athens have? | Direct Democracy - all vote |
| In the Peloponnesian war what was the outcome? | Athens lost to Sparta |
| Who conquered most of the Mediterranean by the age 20? | Alexander the great |
| What empire did alexander the great spread the furthest? | the Greek Empire |
| What did Alexander the great start? | Hellenistic Age |
| What is the Hellenistic Age? | spread gold from India to Egypt |
| What did the philosophers want to explain? | wanted to explain nature without saying "the gods did it" |
| What was Socrates Socratic Method? | Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth |
| Who were the romans ruled by? | Ruled by kings then Republic |
| Who were the patricians and what does it mean? | It means father and they're the upper class land owners |
| who are the Plebeians? | lower class poor peasants |
| Who made laws? | The senate |
| The first set of Roman laws are? | The 12 tables |
| Who resisted the Romans? | The Jews in Israel |
| Who proclaimed Messiah when Jesus of Nazareth was born Ice-ish? | The Jews |
| What happened after Jesus Death in 33 CE? | A branch of Judaism developed into Christianity |
| Mali was what trade? | Gold and Salt |
| Mansa Musa is? | Double size of Mali |
| Who was the largest land empire ever military unstoppable? | The Mongols |
| What is Mali's Capitol | Timbuktu |
| The Mongols were best with what? | Guns and horses |
| Who is known as the best army and also conquered Russia? | The Golden Horde |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Europe? | Ogedi died so they returned to Mongolia |
| Why didn't the Mongols take over Japan? | There was a huge storm called Kamikaze that stopped them |
| Who started and spread the Mongolian Empire? | Genghis Kahn |
| Which important Mongol died in Poland? | Ogedi Kahn |
| Which important Mongol took china and called it the Yuan Dynasty? | Kublai Kahn |
| Japanese Beginnings was? | small tribes not one big country |
| What was a Motive of the Crusades? | Muslim invasion of Christian territories |
| Who sent knights on holy crusades to middle east to reclaim the holy lands? | Pope Urban II |
| In the Muslim motives, who got penance for kill count and dying on a crusade | Knights |
| What was transmitted from middle east by traders? | Bubonic plague |
| What did Muslims preserve? | Greek and Roma texts |
| What texts did the crusaders bring back? | Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the great |
| What did the greek and roman texts lead to? | Renaissance, science, technological advancements, mathematical advancements. and banking |
| Difference between Holy Roman Church and eastern orthodox church led to? | only orthodox priests could marry |
| What was the Orthodox bible written in? | Greek not Latin |
| What is Iconoclasm? | pope outlawed praying to icons |
| How many did the plague kill? | over half of europes population |
| Where was the plague brought on? | The silk roads |
| Why was there a loss of faith in church? | The plaque was killing many people and Europe thought there was no god |
| Before 1054 what 2 churches split? | Holy Roman Church and Eastern Orthodox |
| What happened between the Pope and the patriarch of Constantinople? | Excommunicated each other, caused a rift, and it still exists |
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