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Prehistory to1500
prehistory to 1500
Question | Answer |
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what does Neolithic mean? | new stone |
what does Paleolithic mean? | old stone |
what does Austalopithecines mean? | southern ape |
What is the most important event in history? | agriculture |
What happen went people had food and security? | culture |
where does everybody originate? | Africa |
How did people live before civilizations? | nomadic |
men hunted what did women do? | gather |
what happened in the Neolithic revolution? | religion and metal tools |
what did civilizations have? | food surplus, advanced cities and technology, and skilled workers |
what was the first civilization? | Mesopotamia |
Mesopotamia was between what two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
Where is modern day Mesopotamia | Iraq |
What is irrigation | Moving of water |
What was Lucy? | First hominid |
Homo sapiens lived how many years ago? | 120,000 |
Neolithic age started when? | 8000 BCE - 5000 BCE |
Nomadic follow what? | food |
Homo Erectus left where? | Africa |
The cross of the Bearing Strait was? | 25000 BCE |
Starting next river is good for ? | Fertile soil and minerals |
Hammurabi was king of ? | Babylonian Empire |
Bureaucracy means what? | compartment or department |
What is the code of Hammurabi | eye for a eye |
higher class has less of what? | punishment |
What was the writing in Ancient Egypt? | Hieroglyphics |
How long is the Nile? | 4000 miles |
what is the social structure in Egypt | Pyramid |
Rosetta Stone | translates Egyptian |
who found the Rosetta stone? | A French soldier |
What is Harappa? | Ancient India |
Harappa was next to what river? | Indus River |
Harappa is what (modern) ? | Pakistan |
Aryans are what? | European nomads |
Aryans brought what system? | caste system |
Caste system is what? | Hierarchy |
what is hierarchy | ranking system |
why did Mesoamerica start late | disease |
Had did the caste work? | priest, warriors, worker, and the untouchables |
where is Mesoamerica? | Mexico and central america |
What is the silk road? | trade routes |
how long is the silk roads? | From china, India, Africa, and europe |
what did they trade on the silk road? | luxury items |
How many dynasties are in China? | 12 |
who was the first dynasty | Shang |
Who talk about the Mandate of Heaven? | Zhou |
Who created the great wall of china | Qin |
The Greek created city states not what? | whole country |
Homer wrote What? | Odyssey and Iliad |
Athens was in what? | the Western culture |
Sparta was all about what? | war |
Athens was all about what? | democracy |
what does democracy mean? | ruled by the people |
Athens lost to Sparta in what war? | Peloponnesian war |
Alexander the Great conquered most of what by age 20? | Mediterranean |
Alexander the Great started what age? | Hellenistic (golden) age |
what does Hellenistic mean? | Greek |
Philosophers do what ? | explains nature with out using the Gods |
How did Socrates died? | suicide |
what are the Chinese Dynasties | Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic, Mao Zedong, De |
The Romans where rule by kings then what? | a Republic |
Who are the Patricians? | higher class |
Who are the Plebeians? | lower class |
what where the first set if laws in Rome | 12 tables |
Jesus was born when? | 1 CE-ish |
What is the capital of Mali | Timbuktu |
Mali trade what? | gold and salt |
Mansa Musa Did what? | double the size of Mali |
Mansa Musa went where as a Muslim | Mecca |
Mansa Musa Brought what? | tons of gold |
who had the largest Empire? | Mongols |
Mongols are best with guns and what? | horse |
What did the Golden Horde Do? | conquered Russia |
why didn't they take over Europe? | Ogedei died |
What does Kamikaze mean? | divine Winds |
Genghis Khan did what? | started the empire and spread it |
Where did Ogedei die? | Poland |
What did the Aristocrats hire? | Samurai |
What did the Mongolians used | Biological Warfare |
Europe and Japan have almost the same what? | Feudalism |
Muslim invaded What? | Christian territories |
Pope Urban II sent who? | Knights |
Knights where sent where? | the middle East |
Knights were sent to get what? | To reclaim the land |
Muslims preserved what? | Greek and Roman text |
What texted the Crusaders bring back? | Aristotle, and Plato |
What did the Renaissances do? | Lead to Science, technology advancement, and math, and banking |
what does schism mean? | split |
What church where together before 1054? | Holy Roman and Eastern Orthodox |
What does catholic mean | universal |
Orthodox bibles where in what? | Greek |
The Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople did what? | Excommunicated each other |
The black plague is What? | the Bubonic Plague |
Transmitted where? | the silk road |
Transmitted by who? | fleas on rats |
The bubonic plague kill how many people? | 1/2 of Europe population |
Brought by who? | the Mongols |
People loss what? | Faith |
What is Iconoclasm? | praying through pictures |
Why could the priest read the bible? | It was in Latin |