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World History Test 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pleistocene | 3 to 5 million years ago |
| pleistocene | great ice age |
| pleistocene | final ice age |
| pleistocene | humans tried to move from african climate to europe and asia but didn't full succeed |
| paleolithic | 1 and half million years ago |
| paleolithic | people could make and use stone tools |
| paleolithic | found earliest in africa |
| paleolithic | oldowan choppers |
| australopithecines | ancestral forms of humans |
| australopithecines | stood up right had teeth hands free |
| australopithecines | found in Southern Africa |
| australopithecines | called southern african ape |
| homoerectus erectus | southeast |
| homoerectus erectus | first skulls found in asia 1920s |
| homoerectus erectus | peking man |
| homoerectus erectus | 5ft tall full up right |
| homoerectus erectus | brain size almost up to ours |
| homoerectus erectus | made stone tools |
| homoerectus erectus | used fire first |
| homoerectus erectus | first evidence of canabalism |
| homoerectus erectus | when weather got rough had to move back to tropics |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | Neanderthal man |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | massive build |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | 200 to 250 years ago |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | disappeared 30 thousand years ago |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | Lived in Europe |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | 2nd one to use fire |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | Made great tool |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | First burial and spiritual belief |
| mamdentalensis homo sapiens | 2nd evidence of canabalism |
| Cro Magnon man | Modern Men |
| Cro Magnon man | 40 to 50 thousand years ago |
| Cro Magnon man | lived in europe atlas 10,000 years ago |
| Cro Magnon man | lived side by side Neanderthals |
| Cro Magnon man | smarter and make better tools |
| Cro Magnon man | could explore environment more efficiently |
| Cro Magnon man | Neanderthals soon died out because their genes dominated |
| Cro Magnon man | left great cave paintings |
| Cro Magnon man | used nets and baskets by plants |
| Mesolithic | 10,000 B.C - 5,000 B.C |
| Mesolithic | sea levels started to rise |
| Mesolithic | large animals of the plasticine were dying out |
| Mesolithic | people became more dependent on plants |
| Mesolithic | led to domestication of plants |
| Mesolithic | middle east tigress euphrates valley |
| Cultivated | encouraging growth |
| Domesticated | human intervention |
| Mesolithic | Middle Stone Age |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age |
| Mexico | corn was the main crop |
| Mexico | pineapple chilly peppers beans and other fruits |
| Northwestern South America | Had to domesticate several plants such as potatoes and peanuts |
| Northern Central China | large animals became extinct which caused them to depend on plants such as rice kikoi and fruit |
| Southeast Asia | sugar kane, coconuts, bananas |
| Africa | watermelon, okra, sorghum |
| Middle East | goats and cattle |
| Asia | water buffalo |
| Southeast Asia | chickens |
| Asia | horses |
| Neolithic | 5000-3000 B.C. |
| Neolithic | started earlier in someplace and ended in other places |
| Neolithic | still using stone tools |
| Neolithic | evolution of first city parts of the world where agriculture appeared |
| Neolithic | evidence that religion started to become of main importance |
| Neolithic | agriculture and plants are how people are still surviving |
| Neolithic | farmers started to depend more on religion because of floods |
| Neolithic | spiritual world controls rain and elements |
| Neolithic | the priest was of the highest power due to the fact that they could communicate with the gods |
| Neolithic | digging sticks were the newest source of technology |
| Fertile Crescent | valleys of tigress-euphrates has the nile in it |
| Fertile Crescent | where the first cities where |
| Fertile Crescent | farmers moved here in 450 B.C. |
| Fertile Crescent | Southern portion Babylonia |
| Fertile Crescent | Northern portion Akkad |
| Sumer | First civilization in Babylonia |
| Copper | starts to replace stone tools |
| Copper | hammer made implements out of it |
| Fertile Crescent | wheel was made and used |
| Fertile Crescent | horses, oxes, animals were used with wagons |
| Fertile Crescent | learned how to harvest the power of energy with wind |
| Fertile Crescent | people started to build sail boats |
| Fertile Crescent | irrigation started to be used |
| Fertile Crescent | social conflicts started to happen |
| Fertile Crescent | needed authority so religious leader took charge |
| Fertile Crescent | evolving into the place of kings and priest |
| Northern proportion | Semitic people were called the akkadians |
| Southern proportion | summerians where located here |
| Southern proportion | had numbers of cities |
| Southern proportion | grew along the river |
| Southern proportion | river source of communication |
| Southern proportion | some separated by wild tribes |
| Southern proportion | where attempts to unify but where resisted |
| Southern proportion | clay tablets where made here |
| Protolitenate | 1st period of summerians history |
| 2800 B.C. | When writing appeared |
| accounting was the reason people created writing | |
| who used clay tablets | |
| end of period signs would replace with sound | |
| their writing is called cuneiform | |
| Zeggurat | temples every city had one |
| Southern proportion | professional priest was in charge of temple and ceremonies |
| Sumerians | Had four categories of people |
| Nobility | king of city State and his family, top priest, high palace officials and their families |
| Free Clients | worked on land of nobility, but had own small spots where they raised food |
| Commoners | free citizens, owned land but had almost no power |
| Slaves | war captives, debtors, had some rights could take and could buy their own freedom |
| Old Sumerian Period | 2800-2200 B.C. |
| Old Sumerian Period | akkadians settled north |
| Old Sumerian Period | Sargon I king concurred sumers |
| Old Sumerian Period | adopted a lot from Sumerian culture |
| Old Sumerian Period | established a empire that reached Mediterranean speeded ideas and customs |
| Babylonia | Hammurabi (ruler) |
| Babylonia | idea that all Gods got together and voted the Babylonian God as king |
| Babylonia | he codified the laws |
| Babylonia | laws influenced people's laws later Arab, Hebrew, and etc |
| Babylonia | provided laws for different social statuses |
| Babylonia | the law demanded punishment that fit the crime |
| Babylonia | adopted a lot from the sumerican culture |
| Babylonia | established empire as far as sierra and Egypt |
| Babylonian Achievement | developed writing and education system |
| Babylonian Achievement | schools for training scribes |
| Babylonian Achievement | discipline was strict |
| Babylonian Achievement | originated astrology |
| Course of Civilization in Egypt | population began to increase |
| Course of Civilization in Egypt | kingdoms became lower and upper |
| Navmer (menes) | united egypt together was the kind of upper egypt |
| Course of Civilization in Egypt | capital was memphis |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | 2700-2200 B.C. |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | pharaoh became focal point of all life in egyot |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | pharaoh was considered a god |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | created magnificent tombs and palaces for him |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | developed elaborate mummification |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | famous pyramids date from this time |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | 2050- 1800 B.C |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | pharos of 11th and 12 th dynasty reunited Egypt |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | ruled city of thebes |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | Golden Age of Egypt |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | Civil War again invaded by Hykoxos |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | conquered nile delta |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | made all of egypt subjected to them |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | introduced new ideas bronze tools, weapons, and also used rose drawn chariots in war |
| New Kingdom of Egypt | 1570-1090 B.C |
| New Kingdom of Egypt | Egyptians rose up and used enemies weapons against them |
| Thutmos III | 1490-1436 B.C |
| Thutmos III | expanded the Egyptian empire greatly |
| Amonhotep III | empire reached higher point with this person egypt |
| Amonhotep III | 1398-1361 B.C. |
| Amonhotep 4th | unusual he looked deformed |
| Amonhotep 4th | his wife ruled right along side of him |
| Amonhotep 4th | introduced monotheism to Egypt which was why the Egyptians hated him |
| Nephertiti | ruled along side her husband of Egypt |
| Tutankhamen (King Tut) | 1352-1344 B.C. |
| Tutankhamen (King Tut) | Only reason he was truly famous was because his tomb was the only tomb that had not been raided |
| Tutankhamen (King Tut) | was only a boy when he became King |
| Tutankhamen (King Tut) | died in late teen or early 20s |
| Hittites | lived in Turkey King Tuts wife wrote a letter to them |
| Rameses II | 1289-1224 B.C |
| Rameses II | stopped the Hittites from invading which was the Battle of Kadesh |
| Rameses II | he wanted to be remembered |
| Rameses II | after his death the period declined which led to Egypt being ruled by outsiders |
| accomplishments of Egypt | women enjoyed high status |
| accomplishments of Egypt | malrilimeal inheritance through female line |
| accomplishments of Egypt | trading through out eastern med |
| accomplishments of Egypt | land and water trade routes |
| accomplishments of Egypt | medical texts were wrote |
| accomplishments of Egypt | human anatomy was advance |
| accomplishments of Egypt | invented first known solar calendar |
| accomplishments of Egypt | architecture |
| accomplishments of Egypt | a system of writing Hyroglhic before 3100 B.C |
| hittites | left us our first written endoeurpean language |
| hittites | invaded the Egyptian empire |
| Phoenicians | lived along eastern coast of med |
| Phoenicians | 1100 B.C. |
| Phoenicians | sea faring people |
| Phoenicians | popular in trade especially water |
| Phoenicians | some cities still exist |
| Phoenicians | credited with perfecting the alphabet |
| Hebrews | made outstanding contributions to religion |
| Hebrews | gave raise to 3 famous religions |
| Hebrews | semiotic people lang related to arabic |
| Hebrews | abraham originated Ur which was a sumerian city |
| Hebrews | 1700 B.c. decedents went to England |
| Hebrews | they were enslaved |
| Hebrews | were ruled by judges |
| Saul | King of Hebrews |
| Saul | 1020-1080 B.C. |
| David | 1000-961 B.C |
| David | began to expand the territory |
| Soloman | 961-922 B.C. |
| Soloman | had a huge number of wives and concubines |
| Soloman | creates extent of this empire after david |
| Assyrains | 9th century B.C. |
| Assyrains | by 721 dominated the cresant |
| Assyrains | capital was Nineveh |
| Assyrains | were so hated that people tried to get ride of their memory |
| Tells | were archeological feature composed of settlements on top of settlements |
| Assyrains | cut heads off of others and piled them up |
| Assyrains | or empaled them and put the sticks in the ground |
| Assyrains | 612 B.C. this empire was destroyed |
| course of civilization in India | first civilization appears in the Indus Valley |
| course of civilization in India | appeared 2300 B.C |
| Mohenjo Daro | principle city |
| Harappa | principle city |
| course of civilization in India | had cereal crops |
| course of civilization in India | experts in metals and textiles |
| course of civilization in India | wide spread trade |
| Aryan People | 1500 B.C. invaded much of Northern India |
| Aryan People | had foreboded Marriage with natives |
| Aryan People | origin of castle system |
| Aryan People | rigid social system which means you can't movie out of the social system |
| Ayran People | sanskrit |
| Hinduism | polytheistic religion |
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