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USA, World, and Africa 1

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What were some of the adaptations made in the Old Stone Age that allowed for the evolution of human development?   show
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show The Aryans king  
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The use of fire is associated with which human lineage?   show
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The use of tools is associated with which human lineage?   show
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show 1) Manufacturing implements made from stone or bone such as weapons, or tools. 2) Control of fire for cooking, light, and heat. 3) Developed a spoken language and gestures used to communicate.  
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What were human beings around the world capable of during the Old Stone Age? pt.2   show
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show The development of agriculture techniques, domesticating animals for food consumption, which lead to the development of a more complex society. Food production also started to affect the gender roles.  
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show Humans in Paleolithic era were mainly nomadic. The Neolithic era consisted of the agricultural revolution.  
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show Civilization is defined in terms of urbanization. Urban characteristics include specialized vocation, advances in art and technology, complex political and cultural institutions and the presence of a written language.  
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show Asia is the largest continent in the world and Africa is the second largest.  
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show Prehistoric is used to describe a society whose writings we have not deciphered while historic are used to describe a society whose writings we can decipher.  
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show Had evolved out of 1500 years of Mesopotamian history and was designed to regulate business, deal with feuds, crimes, slavery, adultery, divorce, legitimacy, inheritance, etc. Some crimes included harsh punishments and death.  
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How did Egypt get its name?   show
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show Early Dynastic Period: 3100-2700BCE Old Kingdom: 2700-2200 BCE Middle Kingdom: 2050-1650 BCE New Kingdom: 1550-1100 BCE Post-Empire Period: 1100-30 BCE  
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Define polytheism and monotheism.   show
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show The gods had both human and animal features or characteristics or they could have the feature of two different animals.  
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What is the Kemetic symbol for life?   show
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show Osiris (Ausar), Isis (Aset), and Horus (Heru) are related to Christianity through the story of Jesus and the Holy Trinity. The Ankh is similar to the cross in Christianity  
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show Constantine declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.  
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Who were the 1st people to grow and weave cotton?   show
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show 1) Extensive flooding due to deforestation was no cause. 2) Geological changes that caused the Arabian sea to shift cutting off trade routes  
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show Brahmans were the priests, Kshatriyas were the warriors, Vaisyas were the landholders and artisans, and Sudras were the serfs and servants and were usually the darker skinned natives of India.  
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show Sanskirt is a form of writing and all Indo-European languages are related because they all have the same common ancestor. Eight chapters was a great grammar book written in the 4th century and it standardized the language.  
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show The earliest language found at the beginning of the common era and it belongs to South India which are unrelated to the Indo-Europeans.  
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show 1) Brahman religious leaders challenged the king’s pretentions to political absolutism. 2) Men not traditionally associated with religious practices challenged the tradition of religious rites and sacrifices.  
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What is Karma? What is Ascetics?   show
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show The greatest creation of the late Vedic era. It is a collection of 108 essays. The essays deal with ethical questions written between 800 and 300 BCE. This term refers to sitting near the teacher.  
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What is known as ‘China’s sorrow’?   show
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show Was a powerful wife of one of the shang kings. She led troop’s war, owned her estates, and was mother to some of the kings children. When she died, she was buried with 16 sacrificed humans and 6 dogs as well as about 1600 other ritual objects.  
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What are the 3 writing styles of the Chinese?   show
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show Heaven appointed a worthy man to rule and allowed him to pass on his kingship to his descendants as long as the kings ruled with compassion and justice and carried out all religious duties.  
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Hsia calendar is based on? Developed by?   show
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show Written by Chou described and justified their destruction of the Shang dynasty.  
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The Li Chi is?   show
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show A political/economic system devised by Chou. Land was granted to members of the court known as fiefdoms; each fiefdom was called a Kuo. The lords ruled their fiefdoms in accordance to the kings’ wishes and the people worked the lands.  
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show Chou Dynasty  
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What military accomplishments were made during the era of the warring states?   show
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Chou Dynasty acomplishments   show
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What is the key feature of Indus civilization?   show
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What are the Five Classics?   show
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show Believed that human nature was innately good and that it was moral education that made some people more superior. Taught that people must return to the state of virtue and live the ideal of Jen. When Jen is practiced with Li, then society will return to a  
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show state of Tao which is a moral way ordained by the heavens and carried out by the sage rulers. He also taught the 5 basic relationships: 1.ruler and minister 2. Father and son 3. Husband and wife 4. Elder and younger siblings 5. Friend.  
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Confucianism   show
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Taoism   show
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What does legalism say about human nature   show
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How do they differ? And who established each ideology?   show
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Legalism   show
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show 1) The farmers= created wealth, and 2) The soldiers= won wars and made the state more powerful  
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show Abraham led his people, the Israelites, from Urin Babylonia to Canaan (Palestine). It was Abraham grandson Jacob (also called Israel) who led the people into Egypt to escape the famine in Palestine and it was Moses who led the people out of Egypt and back  
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show The end of this era was when Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah in 597 BCE and 11 years later Jerusalem was destroyed and the remaining citizens were transported to Babylon.  
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show The transported people completed a new temple with Persian approval in 516 and this is the beginning.  
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show Belief in 1 god.  
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show The Tanakh is holy scriptures and the Torah is the first 5 books of the Tanakh (Equivalent to the Old Testiment)  
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show 613  
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show Emerged as the world’s greatest monotheism faith, the Hebrew people made their contribution to civilization not in politics or military conquest but in religion. The 10 commandments were the moral code for the people.  
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Judaism   show
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What is a Polis and who ran the Polis   show
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show Deployed a mass formation of heavily armed foot soldiers ,Greek’s soldiers used advanced equipment  
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show As a means of producing children and often confined to the home to ensure legitimacy of the child.  
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show Sophisticated girls; concubines who could not bear legitimate children  
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show Athens, Sparta, and 30 other city-states joined together to form a league of protection from the Persians.  
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show A man who questioned the right conduct of life and he believed in absolute values and he questioned and cross questioned others. This questioning was later known as Socratic method of inqury.  
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Who founded the Academy?   show
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show Aristotle  
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show The process of questioning and cross-questioning others.  
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Plato and Aristotle subscribe to which philosophies?   show
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The 2 most important city states in Greece were?   show
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The Hellenistic period is from period of time?   show
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What are the 3 kingdoms of the Hellenistic empire?   show
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show 1. Stoicism and 2. Epicureanism  
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Stoicism:   show
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show Its principles were nothing exists but atoms and void, the soul is material and disintegrates like the body, the only good life is pleasure, all actions should be aimed at minimizing pain or stress and thereby increasing pleasure  
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What were the 3 major groups that inhabited the Italian Peninsula during the early roman republic?   show
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Patricians:   show
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show majority of the population, farmers, shepherds, and small merchants  
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show A value system that embraced devotion to the gods and to the members of one’s family, living and dead. The family was a microcosmic state.  
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show Roman women were disadvantage; they could only aspire to be head matrons  
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How many Punic wars were there?   show
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Populares:   show
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Optimates:   show
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show Roman Peace, economic stability, commercial and manufacturing activities that flourished and its secure trade routes.  
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show cooperated to subvert the republican system in favor of their personal goals. Monopolized power, built forums, renovated temples, improved roads, financed public games, and kept grain prices low  
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show cooperated to subvert the republican system in favor of their personal goals. Defeated by Octavian  
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show cooperated to subvert the republican system in favor of their personal goals; gained territory for Rome  
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Marcus Licinius Crassus:   show
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cooperated to subvert the republican system in favor of their personal goals; defeated by Caesar   show
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show The greatest poet; master piece of world literature  
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What are some of the things that led to the collapse of the Roman Empire?   show
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show 5. High taxes on shrinking population of tax payers 6. Increase in spending  
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show Patricians, Plebeians, Freed slaves, slaves  
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show Everyone is living in peace, no violence or anything. Everyone is being taking care of, an ideal society.  
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