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World History Final

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Neolithic Revolution? 8,000 BCE ; Development of sedentary agriculture and then civilizations
5 River Valley Civilizations o China o Indus River Valley o Mesopotamia o Egypt (Nile) o Mesoamerica
• Christianity o Jesus o Holy Trinity o Comes out of Judaism
Confucianism o Confucius o Filial piety o Father/son relationship
Hammurabi's Code o Mesopotamia o Legal code o “eye for an eye,…
Islam Muhhamad 600's 5 pillars
Ziggurats o Stepped pyramids in mesopotamia
Judiasm o Abraham o Mesopotamia o Old Testament
Hinduism o Oldest known belief system o No founder o Indus River Valley o The Vedas o Polytheistic o Reincarnation o The caste system o Aryans & natives combine beliefs to form Hinduism o Cow is sacred / no meat
Buddhism o Starts in Northeast India, spreads east to China and SE Asia o 4 Noble Truths o 8-fold path
Alexander the Great o Conquers much of the known world; dies around age 32 o Empire broken up among generals
Hellenism o Spreading of Greek culture
Pax Romana o “Roman Peace” during Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire o 500s – 1453 o Christianity central o Justinian (527) o Hagia Sophia (building)
Feudalism o Medieval Europe o Political system - Reciprocal exchanges between kings, vassals, knights, peasants, etc. o You provide knights to fight for me, I’ll give you titles
Manorialism o Just like feudalism but on the manor – relationship between landownder/noble and serfs
Crusades o 1100s – 1200s o Pope calls on knights to go take back the promised land o Fight Muslims (“infidels”) o Failure o Europeans get a lot out of contact with the Muslims
Black Plague o Bubonic plague o 1/3 of European population dies o Devastates the East too o 1300s
Gold-Salt trade o Ghana o Songhai o Mali
Aztecs o Warlike, sacrifices, conquered Spanish empire; chinampas; on a lake in central Mexico
Inca o In Andes mountains in S. America; conquered by the Spanish Empire; no writing system; quipu
Maya o City-states; died out before European arrival
Magna Carta o 1215 – limits the power of the English monarch
Renaissance o 1300s-1400s o Starts in Italian city-states then goes North o Medici Family  Powerful family that controlled Florence during the Italian Renaissance o Machiavelli  Wrote “The Prince” o Leonardo da Vinci o Michelangelo
Protestant Reformation o Martin Luther o 95 Theses  List of corruption in the Catholic Church
Scientific Revolution o Galileo o Copernicus & heliocentric theory  The sun is the center of the universe
Enlightenment o John Locke - Individual rights o Montesquieu (Separation of Powers) o Mary Wollstonecraft o Adam Smith – laissez-faire economics
Ottoman Empire o Gunpowder empire
American Revolution (1776) o Declaration of Independence
French Revolution o Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen o Reign of Terror o Robespierre
Napoleon o Crowns himself emperor of France o Napoleonic Wars o Defeated at the battle of Waterloo
Haitian Slave Rebellion o Toussaint L’Ouverture
Latin American Revolutions (early 1800's) o Simon Bolivar
Peninsulares o European born people in Latin America
Creoles o Of European ancestry, born in Americas
Scramble for Africa o European powers carve up Africa for themselves
Communist Manifesto o Karl Marx & Engels
World War 1 o Causes: alliance systems, extreme nationalism, assassination of Archduke o New Warfare: tanks, airplanes, etc. o Total War: Everyone in society is engaged in war effort somehow o Propaganda: posters pressuring people into joining or supporting the wa
Russian Revolution of 1917 o Rise of communism in Russia o Vladimir Lenin
League of Nations o Set up after WWI to prevent another world war; their policy of appeasement toward Hitler was a failure
World War 2 o Hitler o Emperor Tojo o Mussolini o Franklin D. Roosevelt / Truman o Winston Churchill o Joseph Stalin o appeasement o Holocaust o DDay o Atomic Bomb
Apartheid in South Africa o Blacks and whites segregated; strict laws o Ended in the 90s o Nelson Mandela
Mao Zedong o Leader of communist China
Cold War o Communism v. Democracy o Korean War o Nuclear Arms Race o Vietnam War o Ronald Reagan o Pope John Paul II o Mikhail Gorbachev o Lech Walesa
Created by: angelica.sawan
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