Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World History
Stuff to study for 1st semester exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What continent did humans first appear | Africa |
| When was the first humas appearance | 200,000 years ago |
| what was a hunter/gatherer society | small nomadic clans of humans |
| shaped by human hands | artifact |
| land between tigris and euphrates | mesopotamia |
| summerians devolped | alphabet |
| popular medium of greek artists | faces |
| war that gave rome control of the mediterranean | punic |
| jesus taught in | nazerath and galilee |
| created religious freedom | constantine |
| made christianity official religion | theodocus |
| where did the word hindu come from | persian word for indus river |
| archaelologist | studies earlier people and cultures |
| paleontologist | studies fossils |
| anthropologist | studies physical cultural characteristics of humans |
| monarchy | rule by a king or queen |
| dynasty | a line of rulers who belong to the same family |
| theocracy | government headed by religious leaders or a leader regarded as a god |
| bureaucracy | a group of government officials headed by an administrator |
| two major cities that make up the ancient indus river valley civilization | harappa and mohenjo-daro |
| first recorded dynasty to rule china | shang dynasty |
| major river in chinese civilization | huang he |
| what did hammurabi do | created a new justice system/law code |
| who united upper and lower egypt into one kingdom | king narmer |
| controlled overland trade between mesopotamia and egypt | aramaeans |
| reached their height under king nebuchadnezzar | chaldeans |
| traveled in light spokewheeled chariots | hittites |
| led out of egypt by moses | israelites |
| set prices and used money | lydians |
| most lethal fighting force | assyrians |
| first to trade by sea on the mediterranean | phoenicians |
| treated people they conquered cruelly | arsyrians |
| crossed and re-crossed the fertile crescent | aramaens |
| led by cyrus, darius, and xerxes at different times | persians |
| divided their realm into provinces governed by satraps | persians |
| developed a wealthy kingdom because of gold deposits | lydians |
| which groups of early humans are classified as homo-sapiens | neanderthals and cro-magnons |
| another name for the paleolithic era | old stone age |
| first early humans to use stone tools | homo habilis |
| developed a simplified alphabet | phoenicians |
| what is the jewish holy book called | torah |
| city state of ancient greece | polis |
| person who seized power and established one man rule | tyrant |
| form of government in which a small group holds political power | oligarchy |
| soldier who serves a foreign country for pay | mercenary |
| people who were not citizens in the polis | slaves, men who didn't own land, foreign born men , and women |
| founded by dorian invadors | sparta |
| life in sparta revolved around | military |
| 4 important athenian leaders | draco, solon, peistratus, cleisthenes |
| set up improved code of laws | draco |
| extended citizenship | solon |
| provided loans for the poor | peisistratus |
| established democracy in athens | cleisthenes |
| who won the persian war | greeks defeated persians |
| what was the delian league | opposed persians |
| territory held by a ruler | domain |
| why greece did not unify | its geography |
| shared by everyone in greek city states | religion and language |
| located on balkan peninsula | greece |
| greece's religion | poytheistic |
| most powerful city state after persian wars | athens |
| reformer of persian religion | zoroaster |
| large beaurocratic government | persians |
| olympics honored | zeus |
| led by nebechnezzer | chaldeans |
| devolped hellenistic society | alexander the great |
| combined persian and greek culture | hellenistic |
| greek sculptor who created all parthenon sculptures | phidias |
| greek sculptor interested in form of the human body | myron |
| greek sculptor who carved realistic figures | praxiteles |
| writer of tragedy who wrote oedipus rex | sophocles |
| writer of tragedies-the oearestia | aeschylus |
| writer of greek tragedy more interested in human action than the gods | euripedes |
| opposed the sophists and believed in absolute truth | socrates |
| student of socrates wrote the republic | plato |
| founded and taught at the lyceum. wrote over 200 books | aristotle |
| mathematicion thought the world was round | pythagoras |
| father of geometry | euclid |
| father of medicine | hippocrates |
| interested in history of the peloponnesian war and reported it carefully | thucydides |
| father of history | herodotus |
| kingdom on the balken peninsuela | macedonia |
| conquered persia and spread and preserved greek culture | alexander the great |
| one of 2 officials who headed the executive branch | consul |
| buddhism was founded by | siddartha guatama |
| freedom from all suffering and total enlightenment | nirvana |
| sum of all good and bad deeds | karma |
| cycle of life death of reincarnation in buddhism | dharma |
| believe there was one buddha | mahayana |
| anyone can become a buddha | theravada |
| founded hinduism | aryans |
| sacred hindu texts | vedas, upanishads, epics |
| hindu spiritual teacher or guide | guru |
| when people die their spirits return to earth | reincarnation |
| cycle of birth death and reincarnation in hinduism | samsara |
| final stage of purity attained by repeated good deeds | moksha |
| islam was founded by | muhammad |
| muslim place of worship | mosque |
| spiritual capital | mecca |
| historical ploitical capital | medina |
| any qualified mad could lead the religion | sunnis |
| blood relative of muhammad should lead | shiites |
| holy book of islam | koran |
Created by:
virginia77
Popular World History sets