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Prehistory to 1500
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does Neolithic mean? | new stone |
| what does paleolithic mean? | old stone |
| what does australopithecines mean | southern ape ( first upright hominids 3-4 mil yrs ago) |
| nickname for australopithecines? | lucy |
| where did homo sapiens sapienscome from | Africa |
| where does DNA say we all come from? | Africa |
| was the agriculture ( Neolithic revolution) most important event in history? | yes |
| what is civilization | food surplus advanced cities technology skilled wokers system of writing |
| homo erectus left where? | Africa |
| where did the homo sapiens sapiens cross? | bearing straight |
| what is Mesopotamia | birthplace of civilization |
| where is mesopotamia | between tigris and Euphrates |
| what is modern day Mesopotamia? | iraq |
| what is irrigation? | moving water |
| what is race determined by? | climate |
| what does nomadic mean? | follow food |
| homo sapiens where when? | 120000 yrs ago |
| why are rivers where early civilizations start? | river makes land nearby fertile with minerals |
| who is Hammurabi? | king of babylonian |
| when did Hammurabi resign? | 1700 BCE |
| Babylonian empire was? | most of Mesopotamia |
| what was the code of Hammurabi? | eye for an eye |
| in Babylonian high class= ? | less punishment |
| ancient Egypt began? | 3100 BCE in nile delta |
| what was the writing in Egypt? | hieroglyphics |
| which way does the nile flow? | north 4,000 miles |
| what was egypts social structure shaped like? | pyramid ( haha) |
| what big thing did Egypt come up with? | rosetta stone |
| what is cunei form? | meso writing wedge shaped |
| what is Harappa? | ancient india |
| indus river was when? | 3000BCE |
| European nomads did what? | migrated to india brought caste system controlled natives |
| what is a caste system | rigid social hierarchy ranking system |
| what does caste mean? | social level |
| what was the rankings of the caste system? | 1. priests 2. warriors ( Aryans) 3.workers ( Dravidians) |
| if you were outside of the caste system what was you known as? | untouchable |
| what are untouchables? | considered sub-human should not be spoken to or touched |
| what does meso mean? | middle |
| where is meso America? | mexico , central America |
| Olmec | 1200BCE- mexico- old mexico |
| maya | 300-900 CE - MEXICO |
| Aztec | 1100s CE- mexico |
| inca | 1400s CE- peru |
| what were silk roads? | trade routes for indias empires |
| what was two major things that were exchanged on silk roads | religion and culture |
| what is a caravan? | a large group of travelers |
| what where the Chinese dynasties? | shang, Zhou, chin,han,sui,tang,song |
| what was the shang dynasty known for? | 1 dynasty, writing, ORACLE BONES- questions carved |
| what was the Zhou dynasty known for? | mandate oh heaven |
| what was the Qin dynasty known for? | great wall- kept out nomads |
| the greeks had had... | city states. not one big country |
| who was homer and what did he write? | an author who wrote odyssey and iliad |
| Athens was.... | the dramatic civilization |
| Athens means? | source of western culture |
| what was Sparta all about? | WAR |
| what was Athens all about? | democracy |
| what did Athens do? | tried to unified Greece and lost to Sparta in Peloponnesian war |
| was Sparta an oligarchy? | yes |
| what was the two main city states in Greece? | Athens and Sparta |
| what did alexander the great do? | conquered most of Mediterranean by age of 20 unifies Greece spread greek empire furthest started Hellenistic ( golden) age |
| what is a philosopher? | someone who loves wisdom and has rational thoughts wants to explain nature without saying the gods did it |
| what order did the philosophers go in? | Socrates, plato, Aristotle, alexander the great |
| Socrates came up with? | socratic method |
| who were the romans ruled by? | ruled by kings, then republic people elect people to make laws |
| what is a patrician? | upper class- land owners ( senate- made laws "patricians") |
| what is a plebeian? | lower class- poor, peasants |
| the 12 tables was what to the romans? | first set of laws |
| what where some laws that we still use today? | innocent until proven guilty, right to defend self in court |
| what did the jews think jesus Christ was? | the messiah |
| when did jesus die? | 33CE |
| what happened when jesus died? | a branch of Judaism developed into Christianity |
| where is mali? | west Africa |
| what is the capital of mali? | Timbuktu |
| who was mansa musa? | a man that doubled the size of mali and became a Muslim |
| what did mansa musa bring to meca? | literally tons of gold |
| what did the mongols do? | took over almost all of the east |
| what did the mongols have? | the largest military |
| what was the mongols army name? | the golden horde |
| why didn't the mongols take over japan? | kamikazes ( huge storms) |
| why didn't the mongols take over Europe? | ogedei died |
| who were important mongols? | Genghis kahn ( grandpa) started and spread empire, ogedei kahn ( son) - died in Poland, Kublai kahn ( grandson)- took china called it yuan |
| was japan one big country in the beginning? | no, small tribes |
| what happened in the 600s in japan | yamamoto unites, divine ruler |
| what was bushido? | samurai code ( way of the warrior) |
| what did japan use as land systems? | feudal land systems |
| Shinto was japans what? | religion |
| japan worshiped who? | kami ( spirits of ancestors) |
| what where the motives for the crusades? | muslim invasion of Christian territories knights get penance for kill count or dying on a crusade |
| where did pope urban send the knights and why? | on holy crusade to middle east to reclaim the holy lands |
| muslims preserved greek and roman....? | texts |
| whos work did the crusaders bring back? | plato, Aristotle |
| what does schism mean? | split |
| what led to the great schism? | there differences like only orthodox priests could marry, orthodox bibles in greek, not latin, and pope outlawed praying to icons |
| what does pope mean? | papa |
| where did the bubonic plague come from? | middle east by traders |
| how much did the plague kill of Europe? | 1/2 the population |
| who brought the plague to Europe? | mongols on silk roads |
| what caused the plague? | rodents, fleas, bacteria, human to human contact |
| what came of the plague? | loss of faith in church to protect people, decline in church power, mass burials, vampire rumors, medical advancements |
| what was the song about the plague called? | fleas on rats |
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