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World history
World history-Social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paleolithic | realating to the cultural period of the Stone Age |
| Mesolithic Age | from about 15,00 years ago, also known as the Old Stone Age. |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age from about 10,000 BC |
| The oldest known society | Mesopotamia (3500-c. 1750 B.C.E.) |
| Ancient Egypt (C.2700-c. 1090 B.C.E.) | religious rulership, phyamids and the Valley of the kings, Hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone. |
| Greece (c.200-c. 300 B.C.E.) | Mythology, Social structure and the conceps of citizenship, commerce the city-state and the colonies, Athens, Sparta |
| Rome | Mythology, militar dominance, Stages of government, origin and spread of Christianity, Constantinople |
| India | Cast system, Hinduism & Muslim conquest |
| China | Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism |
| Hinduism | Belief in reincarnation, a supreme being of many forms and natures, opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth. |
| Non-European Civilizations | India,China, Japan, Central and South America and Sub-saharan African |
| Buddhism | suffering ceases when desire ceases, elightenment obtained through right conduct, wisdom. Meditation releases one from desire,suffering and rebirth |
| Confuciansim | relating to or characteristic of Confucius his teachings or his followers |
| Taoism | based on the teachings of Lao-tzu. Advocates preserving and restoring the Tao in the body and cosmos. |
| Feudalism | A political and economic system based on the holding of all land in fief or fee. Relation or lord to vassal. Characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants and forfeiture |
| Shinotism | religon native to Japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors has no formal dogma. |
| Central and South America's ancient peoples: | Mayas, Aztecs and Incas. |
| Incas | A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru: before the Spanish conquest. |
| Sub-Saharan African have | Trading empires and Forest kingdoms |
| The Black Death killed | nearly half of the people of Western Europe. |
| The French Revolution was against the | Bourbons: 1789-1799 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte 1804-1814 | deposed the French Directory(1799), griped all of continental Europe, but not Great Britain. Ultimately defeated at waterloo(1815). Exiled for life on the island of St. Helena. |
| Napoleonic Code | is the basis of French civil law. |
| Industrail Revolution | Socioeconomical changes that took place in England in the late 18th centruy. Extensive mechanization of production systems replaced home-based hand manufacturing to the large-scale factory production |
| European colonization(ASIA) included: | Indonesia(The Netherlands), Philippianes(Spain) Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia(France) Malaya, Myanamar(Great Britain) |
| European colonization in Africa: | Algeria, French West Africa, Equatorial Africa, Gabon Madagascar(French), Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Egyptian sudan, British East Africa, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Bechuaha Land(Great Britain), Angola, Mozambique(Portuguese |
| German Colonizations included | Cameroon, Togo, German SOuth West Africa & German East Africa |
| Belgium held: | Belgian Congo |
| Spain held: | Spanish Sahara and Rio De Oro |
| Age of Enlightenment | Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson |
| Scientific Revolution Names: | Newton, Galileo and Copernicus. |
| Artist of the renissance: | Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Machiaveli |
| Marco Polo | From Venice, explored Asia from 1271 to 1295. |
| Christopher Columbus | Itaian explorer in the service of Spain, determinied that the earth was round, discovered America in 1492. Made 3 more voyages in quest for a sea route to China. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Blown by storms into the strait that now bears his name (1520). Reached the Marianas and the Philippines(1521), where he was killed. |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer that was the first European to sail to India (1497-1498). He established Portuguese trade and colonization. |
| World War I | From 1914 to 1918. Allies where US, Russian France, England, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Servia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Montenegro. Central powers were: Germany, Austri-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaira. |
| Russian Revolution | Lead by Bolsheviks under Lenin from 1917 to 1922. Bolsheviks won. |
| Mexican Revolutin. | When the Republic became independent from Spain in 1810. |
| Chinese Revolution | The Republican revolution against the Manchu dnasty in China: 1911-1912. |
| World War II from 1939-1945. | A war between the Allies and the Axis. |
| The Allies countries were | Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canad, China, colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Cominican Rpublic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran Iraq Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, |
| Axis countries were | Alvania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia and Thailand. |
| Cold War. 1945-1990 | The conflict was primarily about economic, phiosophic, cultural, social and political ideology. |
| Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks. Leader fo the USSR from 1917-1924. |
| Stalin | Soviet Politician, successor of lenin from (1922-1953) |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese Communist leader and theorist from 1949-1959. |
| Mohandas Gandi | Indian nationalist and spirtual leader. Forced UK to grant independence to India in 1947. |
| Nelson Mandela | South African President from 1994-1999. |
| Fall of the Berlin wall happened in: | 1989 |
| Mesopotamia | Developed a common law code and justice system. The first forms of writing, education and math. |
| Egypt | Own writing system: hieroglyphics |
| Hebrew | A law code based on religious teachings. Start of Monotheism; |
| Greek | Rise of Polis or 'City-State'. Atheans began democracy. Gave civilization coinage, literature, poetry, history and drama. |
| Rome | Many different gods, polytheism, Had complex system of a leader; Senate and overseers. They were one of the largest, longest lasting. |
| Renaissance began in | the 14th century. |
| Individualism | fully realizing your abilities and belief in self. |
| Humanism | A rebirth of classical literature and a new commitment to learning. |
| Secularism | concern with the material world. |
| Scientific revolution | 17th Century |
| Mathematicians that developed the base-ten number system that we use today were from | India. |
| THe BBYLONIAN eMPIRE CAME TO AN END UNDER King | Nabonidus |
| Code of Hamurabi covered all areas of conduct including: | the family, the rights of individuals, conduct of professionals, the economy and the military. |
| Sargon is said to have created | the world's first empire. |
| Yu, the "Great Enigineer" | began the construction of the Great Wall. |
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