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World History Final
world history final stuff
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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