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Global 9 Midterm
2016 - Global 9 Midterm
Term | Definition |
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Civilization | A. Centralized governments B. Organized religions C. Social Classes D. Specialization of labor |
Egyptian Civilization | The social structure was hierarchical. Trade Routes between Egypt and other kingdoms |
Canals | Irrigation. Man made. Sumerians |
Greek Civilization | Olympic games, the poems of Homer, and Hellenistic culture. |
Alexander the Great | Spread Hellenistic Culture. Cultural Diffusion |
Hellenistic Culture | Greek, Persian, Egyptian, Indian Cultures |
Nile River | Egypt. Was important for the transportation of soldiers and resources. |
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | Mesopotamia. Periodic flooding left rich soil, which was ideal for farming |
Sparta | Military Serve |
Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. River Valley |
Greece Geography | Mountains separate city-states |
Neolithic Revolution | People began living in permanent settlements. Included the domestication of plants and animals |
Athens | Direct Democracy |
Ancient China | Mandate of Heaven, Oracle bones, Daoism, production of silk, and reverence for ancestors. |
Yellow River Valley | Ancient China |
Code of Hammurabi | ... "If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out. If he has knocked out the teeth of a plebeian (commoner), he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver."... |
Greek Philosophers | Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle |
Subsistence farming | Producing just enough food for a family’s survival |
Louis and Mary Leakey | suggest the earliest humans developed in Great Rift Valley |
Code of Hammurabi | If a son has struck his father, they shall cut off his hand. • If a seignior has destroyed the eye of a member of the aristocracy, they shall destroy his eye. • If he has broken another seignior's bone, they shall break his bone. |