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U1 AWH
unit one ancient world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| history | study of our past includes; what humans have said, thought, done |
| History consists of | political, social and economic records |
| 5 themes of geography | location, place, interaction between people and their enviorment, movement, regions |
| archeology | study of artifacts from past civilizations, |
| anthropology | science of human remains |
| paleontology | study of fossils |
| who set up the basic system of counting? | the sumerians set up this system |
| carbon dating | used to tell how old fossils are |
| begining of humans theories | biblical, big bang, darwanism |
| what makes humans different then other animals? | posture, good color vision, hands with thumbs, speech, large brains, tools and free will |
| Paleolithic age (old stone age) | nomads, hunting and gathering, ice age, fire, burials, tools |
| Neolithic age | domesicated plants and animals, villages, pottery, grew crops, polish tools |
| australopithecines | first humanlike creature to walk upright |
| homo habilis | made first stone tools |
| homo erectus | found in africa, asia and europe tamed fire |
| neanderthals | first to have rituals looked like cavemen |
| cro-magnons | fully modern humans, made art |
| necisities for a civilization | permanent cities, government, laws, currency/taxes |
| mesopotamia | tigris and euphraties river |
| egypt | nile river |
| china | yellow river |
| india | indus river |
| mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| sumerians | Ur, city-state, made ziggurats, believed in gods who controlled everything, cuneiform, made epic of gilgamesh. invented calender, wheel, counting, government |
| epic of gilgemesh | info about how people thought and answers questions about frendship and desire to be immortal, and stories about heros and gods |
| akkadians | conquered sumerians then took culture. Sargon the great establishes first empire |
| babylonians | bablyon- crushed sumerians and akkadians then took sumerian culture |
| hammurabi | beautifyed bablyon established a code. addresses rights of women and slaves conquered by assyrians |
| assyrians | ninevah- creul and warlike people, enslaved people by 700BC controlled all mesopotamia then claldeans conquered assyrians rebellions drained economy |
| chaldeans | babylon- beautified city king Nebuchadnezzar attacked egypy destroyed jerusalem enslaved jews. built ziggurat, hanging gardens adopted mother goddess not war god. Nebu. went insane and persians conquered chaldeans in 539BC |
| persians | Persepolis- captured largest empire known at this time. Streched India to egypt. ruled with law and order divided into 20 provences unity to meso. religion was zoroastrianism conquered by ATG. |
| zoroastrianism | belief in 2 powers, Lord ahura Mazda (wise lord) vs. Ahriman(evil spirit) |
| Great leaders in Perisains | cyrus the great: united mesopotamia darius the great: expanded empire xerxes: expanded empire further |
| Phoenicians | lebanon- traded and developed 22 letter alphabet |
| Lydians | Sardis- complex economic systems and established coins and money |
| Hittites | first to create iron , fought major war against egypt, first signed peace treaty |
| North Africa | thin coastal plain, sahara desert |
| East Africa | sahel called great central plateau Great Rift Velley |
| West Africa | narrow coastal plain |
| central africa | tropical rainforests to the Kalihari desert |
| Southern Africa | cooler fertile highland region |
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