6819881279 | Period 1 | up to 600 B.C.E. The Paleolithic/Neolithic Era | 0 | |
6819624913 | World Regions period 1 | East Asia (China & Japan) South Asia (India) Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, etc) Central Asia Middle East (sometimes called Southwest Asia) Europe The Americas | 1 | |
6819656322 | Paleolithic Era period 1 | "old stone age" time before agriculture and domestication of animals characterized by the time when hunter/foragers gradually migrated from Africa | 2 | |
6819663398 | Neolithic Era period 1 | "new stone age" AGRICULTURE INTRODUCED farming allowed humans to control food production, settle and form civilizations | 3 | |
6819678613 | River Valley Civilizations period 1 | Mesopotamia/Sumer Egypt Indus Valley Shang China | 4 | |
6819688531 | traits of a civilization period 1 | labor specialization, inequality, trade, government, religions, population increase | 5 | |
6819697142 | technologies (neolithic) period 1 | bows and arrows, iron weaponry, chariots, horseback riding | 6 | |
6819710007 | record keeping in Neolithic times period 1 | cuneiform(Mesopotamia), alphabets, hieroglyphics, pictographs | 7 | |
6819722579 | "the original affluent society" period 1 | refers to people in Paleolithic times who worked less and played more, only using what they needed for survival (the catch was super low life expectancy) | 8 | |
6819740654 | How did people originally encourage plant growth? period 1 | using fire/burning certain areas down so that the land would be more fertile | 9 | |
6819754222 | Venus Figurines period 1 | paleolithic figurines depicting female deities with accentuated sexual features | 10 | |
6819769954 | What were two major developments following colonization? period 1 | 1. Chiefdoms were established 2. Quick extinction of many animal species | 11 | |
6819786419 | What were some negative results of the Agricultural Revolution? period 1 | 1. Many humans lost their hunting/gathering skills 2. Plants & animals became more dependent on human cultivation and breeding | 12 | |
6819804174 | pressures to increase agriculture period 1 | 1. disappearance of many large mammals 2. growing populations 3. fluctuations of global warming 4. newly settled ways of life | 13 | |
6819815318 | Diffusion | the spread of techniques, plants, animals | 14 | |
6819817807 | Migration | the movement of people from one place to another | 15 | |
6819825282 | Bantu People period 1 | African groups that developed their own languages and basically overtook Paleolithic people; they actually prolonged the globalization process because they were all about conquering other peoples' land rather than settling in new places | 16 | |
6819863656 | architecture period 1 | pyramids, temples, irrigation, defensive walls, roads | 17 | |
6819871676 | Law Code of Hammurabi period 1 | harsh Babylonian law code that punished people based on both their crime and social status | 18 | |
6819880210 | Period Two | 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E The Classical Era | 19 | |
6819897043 | Hebrew Monotheism period 2 | early Judaism- monotheistic religion conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans, respectively | 20 | |
6819912566 | Vedic Religions period 2 | Indian religions based on the Vedas (Sanskrit book of worship) that essentially comprised Hinduism | 21 | |
6819932022 | Elements of Hinduism period 2 | Reincarnation Indian Caste system Karma (remember RICK) | 22 | |
6819957322 | Buddhism period 2 | Siddhartha Gautama from India as a reaction to Hinduism, Buddhism teaches that ALL people can be enlightened (even provided opportunities for women to become nuns) also teaches that suffering is rooted in desire | 23 | |
6820852799 | Confucianism period 2 | more of an ideology, inspired by the teachings of Confucius promoted and educated government (of men) and social harmony as well as particular respect for elders | 24 | |
6820868485 | Which Chinese dynasty was first based on Confucianism? period 2 | the Han | 25 | |
6820872389 | Daoism/Taoism period | Chinese religion which focuses on the idea of the balance between humans in nature thriving on harmony | 26 | |
6820880855 | Christianity | JESUS! religion in which all people are loved and included | 27 | |
6820900687 | What action by Roman emperor Constantine sparked support Christianity in Rome? | When Constantine converted to Christianity Also, when he made it legal to practice Christianity in the Roman Empire by signing the Edict of Milan in 313 C.E. | 28 | |
6820907274 | The 3 Major Greek Philosophers | Socrates- always questioning/seeking wisdom Plato- learned from Socrates, wrote "The Apology" Aristotle- Learned from Plato, focused on math and science All 3 were rooted in logic and observing government practices | 29 | |
6820921781 | What did architecture reflect in the early common era? period 2 | values and belief systems | 30 | |
6820926973 | States and Empires period 2 | Persian Roman Greek Qin, Han Mauryan & Gupta Bantu | 31 | |
6820935863 | Persian State period 2 | primarily areas were ruled by satraps aka governors Persia and Greek were often at war | 32 | |
6820941058 | Greek City-States period 2 | for example, Athens and Sparta Were individually ruled based on geography, which made significant action impossible with the lack of a unified central government | 33 | |
6820946782 | Roman Republic, later Empire period 2 | composed of city states like Greece the Republic ended with the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E., and the Empire began with Octavian or Augustus in 31 B.C.E. | 34 | |
6820975161 | Qin Dynasty China period 2 | legalistic | 35 | |
6820977003 | Han Dynasty China period 2 | Confucian based, began the Silk Road network | 36 | |
6820982252 | Mauryan Empire period 2 | Indian empire that sought to conquer and spread Buddhism (King Ashoka) | 37 | |
6820993028 | Gupta period 2 | in the midst of decentralized kingdoms, this was a golden era for India | 38 | |
6820996863 | Bantu (pt. 2!) period 2 | Sub-saharan African civilization with emphasis on 1. Agriculture 2. Languages 3. Iron tools | 39 | |
6821007196 | What was the trade network that made exchange so inter-regional in period 2? | the Silk Roads connecting Asia and Europe | 40 | |
6821013735 | What 2 practices made trade so effective in period 2? | 1. The use of pack animals across the Silk and Saharan roads 2. Riding the monsoon winds (Indian ocean) | 41 | |
6821017100 | Hellenism | the spreading of Greek culture into the Mediterranean by Alexander the Great- 300s B.C.E. | 42 | |
6821022906 | Sinification | Hellenism, but about China! particularly culture spread during the Tang Dynasty | 43 | |
6821028137 | Period 3 | 600- 1450 C.E. The Middle Ages/ Third Wave | 44 | |
6821074207 | Islam period 3 | New religion founded by Muhammad 5 pillars: Prayer Alms giving Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) Belief in 1 God, Allah Observance of Ramadan | 45 | |
6821090307 | What comprised the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims? period 3 | the Sunni thought religious leaders should be elected the Shia thought that leaders should be descended from Muhammad | 46 | |
6821103592 | What architectural style is indicative of Islamic influence? period 3 | Geometric shapes/ patterns. Muslims do not want to dishonor Muhammad by giving him a face, so their art is often patterned rather than showing a human image | 47 | |
6821112404 | technologies for trade period 3 | compass, astrolabe, camel caravans, ships, credit, paper $$$ | 48 | |
6821119653 | Name the 3 Major Trade Routes of Period 3 | 1. The Silk Road 2. The Sand Road (Sahara) 3. The Indian Ocean | 49 | |
6821125030 | luxury goods period 3 | silk and porcelain (China), cotton and pepper (India), spices (s/e Asia), gems and metals (Africa) | 50 | |
6821136952 | Where was Christianity primarily practiced? period 3 | Europe | 51 | |
6821138072 | What religion did China practice at this time? period 3 | Buddhism | 52 | |
6821143636 | Where did Hinduism spread in period 3? | Southeast Asia | 53 | |
6821146036 | Islam was practiced in which regions? period 3 | Africa, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia | 54 | |
6821155129 | Name the 2 languages that blend to create the Swahili language period 3 | Bantu and Arabic | 55 | |
6821159264 | MAJOR Chinese crop period 3 | rice | 56 | |
6821160623 | Africa was known for the crop of _________. period 3 | bananas | 57 | |
6821164594 | Which Indian crops were the most successful in period 3? | cotton and sugar | 58 | |
6821167732 | The Black Death: effects period 3 | 50% European pop. loss Freedom for the serfs(feudal system) Blame of disease on Jews Catholic Church became less influential (as clergy died in plague; also people lost morale/faith) | 59 | |
6821180330 | Byzantine Empire period 3 | created when in 330 C.E. Constantine founds the new capital of Rome at Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) politics: theme system, caesaropapism, Justinian's code | 60 | |
6821194977 | Sui China period 3 | built Grand Canal connecting North and South China legalistic | 61 | |
6821210678 | Tang | created the civil service exam (based on Confucianism) | 62 | |
6821213949 | Song | bureaucratic military (which weakened it) and introduction of foot binding for female elites | 63 | |
6821218877 | Keivan Rus period 3 | Byzantine culture, heavily Eastern Orthodox | 64 | |
6821227054 | Ummayad period 3 | Islamic empire with conquests thru Spain, the Middle East, and entire Arabian Peninsula introduced the jizya, a tax on non-muslims | 65 | |
6821234289 | Abbasid period 3 | moved capital from Damascus to Baghdad golden age and introduced many new math and science concepts | 66 | |
6821240583 | Mali period 3 | African empire that when Islamic after Mansa Musa took the hajj/Mecca trip | 67 | |
6821244668 | Mongol/ Yuan Dynasty period 3 | ruled China for a period, but in a different way because of geography (Kublai Khan- ruler) resulted in increased connection between China and the western world | 68 | |
6821281463 | Feudal System period 3 | system run with lords owning the land, vassals managing it, and peasant working it in exchange for protection or a share of the food seen in both Europe and Japan | 69 | |
6821305357 | Great Schism period 3 | 1054- the split of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches | 70 | |
6821307455 | The Crusades period 3 | 1095-1099 battle(s) between the RCC and Muslims with the goal of the Church being to reconquer the Holy Land- launched by Pope Urban II | 71 | |
6821322838 | European technologies that increased productive capacity period 3 | horse collar. heavy plow, etc. caused food production to thrive and population to increase also universities were est. and the Renaissance began in the 1300s | 72 | |
6821333026 | Period 4 | 1450-1750 C.E. A Time of Global Exchange | 73 | |
6821346924 | What action caused the Americas to join in world connection? period 4 | The European discovery of the Americas in 1492 by Columbus | 74 | |
6821352073 | technologies of period 4 | compass, astrolabe, bigger ships, cartography, paper $$$ | 75 | |
6821356455 | Ming China period 4 | voyages of Zheng He extended down from China into the Indian ocean- more extensive travels than Columbus, nbd | 76 | |
6821360958 | Portuguese period 4 | started to make their education totally sailing oriented, allowing them to set up trade posts all around the coast of Africa and through the Indian Ocean They also settled in the Americas/Brazil | 77 | |
6821371764 | What was Columbus's original goal when he set out in 1492? | He was sent by the Spanish rulers to find a better route to the Indies | 78 | |
6821376404 | key figures in maritime voyaging period 4 | Dias- reaches the south tip of Africa De Gama- sails around the tip ^ Magellan- circumnavigates the world | 79 | |
6821392600 | Which new natural commodity was found in the Americas and Japan? period 4 | Silver | 80 | |
6821396786 | Describe the process of silver trading period 4 | 1. mine silver in Americas or Japan 2. send it to Europe 3. Europeans by eastern goods with silver | 81 | |
6821403599 | mercantilism period 4 | when colonies of a larger country provide raw materials making the larger country wealthy | 82 | |
6821409633 | What was the goal of the Europeans regarding exchange in period 4? | they wanted less imports and more exports | 83 | |
6821412580 | Joint Stock Companies period 4 | where companies offer to sell shares of their business so that when they profit, the owners of their stock profit as well | 84 | |
6821419084 | Columbian Exchange period 4 | connected Europe and the Americas caused the spread of disease, goods, and people | 85 | |
6821453499 | disease in Columbian exchange period 4 | disease spread from Europeans to native Americans because the natives were not immune to the diseases carried on European livestock | 86 | |
6821453508 | goods in Columbian exchange period 4 | from Europe: coffee, grapes, etc from Americas: peppers, squash, potatoes, etc | 87 | |
6821469027 | What happened in Europe due to more diverse diets (resulted from food from Americas in Columbian exchange)? period 4 | life expectancy went up | 88 | |
6821472609 | What is able to spread more effectively because of trade? period 4 | religion | 89 | |
6821474541 | Where did Buddhism spread? period 4 | from India to China and S/E Asia | 90 | |
6821478605 | Voodoo period 4 | A mixture of West African religion and Christianity | 91 | |
6821479601 | Sikhism period 4 | Indian religion that was monotheistic and founded in the 15th century | 92 | |
6821485468 | How did the arts benefit from population growth? period 4 | More people meant more $ for merchants. allowing the government to raise taxes, giving them an increased amount of $ to spend on visual and performing arts | 93 | |
6821489677 | The Renaissance period 4 | began in Florence in the 1300's key players: Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo(think ninja turtles lol), Shakespeare, etc. | 94 | |
6821501996 | East Asia's mini renaissance ish period 4 | Japanese theater flourished, silver mining was bringing in the $$$ | 95 | |
6821505196 | labor systems period 4 | Mita(Inca)- forced labor with no benefit for worker Encomienda- brutal Spanish use of native labor in the Americas Indentured servitude- where people would work for passage to America for example | 96 | |
6821518746 | What were the places most heavily involved in the slave trade? period 4 | West & Central African slaves were sent to > 1. South America 2. The Caribbean | 97 | |
6821528675 | Spanish Colonial Heirarchy period 4 | From the top down: peninsulares (born in Spain) Creoles (100% European ethnically, born in Amer.) Mulattoes & Mestizos (Mix of African and Eur. or Native and Eur.) Straight natives or Africans | 98 | |
6821539031 | major maritime empires period 4 | colonial- Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, British | 99 | |
6821542081 | major land/gunpowder empires period 4 | Songhay, Ming, Qing Gunpowder: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal (Muslim) | 100 | |
6821547634 | countries that used religion to justify rule period 4 | Europe- divine right Safavid- power passed down thru fam Aztec/Mexica- human sacrifice to the gods W. Africa- Islam China- Confucianism | 101 | |
6821552257 | Period 5 | 1750-1900 C.E. Period of Revolutions | 102 | |
6821563761 | How did industrialization change production? period 5 | goods that were orig. made by hand were now made my machine allowing mass production | 103 | |
6821569550 | Why did industrialization happen first in Great Britain? period 5 | it was highly successful commercially agricultural innovations helped productivity and freed up labor on the countryside pop. growth= more laborers lots of coal, iron, and timber rivers and canals | 104 | |
6821575945 | machines of the Industrial Revolution period 5 | steam engine mechanical reaper the assembly line-everyone does one part of a task allowing efficiency | 105 | |
6821582028 | fuels of the Industrial Revolution period 5 | fossil fuels/ coal, oil | 106 | |
6821585124 | 1st and 2nd Industrial Revolutions period 5 | 1st: hand production to machines; Watt steam engine 2nd: steel, chemicals, electricity | 107 | |
6821588725 | transportation period 5 | canal system, railroads, steam engine on boats | 108 | |
6821590746 | communication changes period 5 | telegraph telephone | 109 | |
6821592516 | export industries period 5 | certain economies exporting a single natural resource for ex. rubber from Congo, Mexican copper | 110 | |
6821600584 | Economics of the Industrial Revolution: 2 Key People period 5 | Adam Smith- laissez-faire capitalism; hands off the economy, it will self-regulate John Stuart- economic liberalism | 111 | |
6821608386 | Karl Marx period 5 | socialist- he saw that the wealthy (bourgeoisie) people owned the means of production and paid the workers (proletariat) practically nothing The Communist Manifesto | 112 | |
6821620233 | Qing Dynasty period 5 | Opium War Self-strengthening movement Boxer Rebellion(push out foreigners) | 113 | |
6821624296 | Japan period 5 | Matthew Perry (U.S.A.) forces open the ports Meiji Restoration- move forward w industry and come out stronger | 114 | |
6821631679 | Ottoman Empire period 5 | "the sick man of Europe" Haven't industrialized Young Turks try bringing modernization | 115 | |
6821634573 | Russia period 5 | state dominated industrialization, heavy industry | 116 | |
6821636335 | Egypt period 5 | Muhammad Ali textile production | 117 | |
6821638303 | social changes period 5 | slums, people moving from the country- massive urbanization, apartments, concern with time as jobs were stricter | 118 | |
6821642142 | the work force in factories period 5 | strong patriarchy- women and children paid way less than male factory workers | 119 | |
6821643012 | Imperialism | the act of extending rule or authority over foreign countries directly indirectly- influence trade- economic | 120 | |
6821648035 | Scramble for Africa period 5 | Africa= rich with natural resources French, British, Spanish, etc all wanted these materials from 1885-1914 | 121 | |
6821653236 | "The White Man's Burden" Kipling period 5 | the idea of social Darwinism, that there are better groups than others Europeans thinking that it was their duty to purify and Christianize other races | 122 | |
6821657139 | Enlightenment Thinkers period 5 | John Locke- natural rights Montesquieu- challenging absolute powers etc challenging slavery | 123 | |
6821661170 | The Revolutions of Period 5 | American Haitian Latin American French | 124 | |
6821688444 | nationalism period 5 | the communal identity of a people group | 125 | |
6821689391 | What took place as a result of the promotion of nationalist ideas? period 5 | anti-colonization | 126 | |
6821693494 | global migration period 5 | causes: search for work, technology, effects: | 127 |
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