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| 2489235540 | Neolithic Revolution | first agricultural revolution, moved from nomadic to agricultural lifestyle | 0 | |
| 2489238676 | Bantu Migrations | Movement of Africans across the continent of Africa | 1 | |
| 2489238677 | Bronze Age | later part of the Neolithic Era. learned how to develop and use tools and weapons, and build new civilizations | 2 | |
| 2489242869 | Mesopotamia | series of ancient civilizations. Sumer,Babylon, and Persia. "land between the rivers" Large arable land | 3 | |
| 2489243753 | Hammurabi's Code | establishes a sense of justice and fairness by applying laws to nearly everyone. | 4 | |
| 2489251222 | Hittites- Iron Metallurgy | dominated Babylon, learned how to use iron in their weapons. Quickly became a military superpower. Invaded Babylon. | 5 | |
| 2489254923 | Patriarchal Society | Father is the head of the family. System governed by men. Men dominate | 6 | |
| 2489254924 | Cuneiform | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represent words or syllables. originated in Mesopotamia and was used for Sumerian and Akkadian. later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. | 7 | |
| 2489256141 | Hebrews | belief in Judaism. First jews. Monotheistic. Established Israel in Palestine. | 8 | |
| 2489256142 | Phoenicians | maritime culture that traded and colonized widely throughout the Mediterranean | 9 | |
| 2489258591 | Indus River Civilization- Aryans- Vedic Age | Nomadic tribes from north of the caucasus mountains | 10 | |
| 2489258592 | Caste System | a way of sorting people by their social class | 11 | |
| 2489263075 | Shang Dynasty | the first dynasty; started around 1250 bce | 12 | |
| 2489267940 | Mandate of Heaven | as long as the leader treats people right, he would have the right to rule | 13 | |
| 2489267941 | Olmecs | AKA mexico. 1200 to 1400. Urban society supported by a lot of corn, beans, and squash. Mastered irrigation and constructed large buildings. Polytheistic. Developed a system of writing and a calendar. | 14 | |
| 2489270772 | Zoroastrianism | oldest monotheistic religions and founded by Zoroaster in ancient IRAN | 15 | |
| 2489270773 | Confucianism | widely practiced throughout CHINA. 5 fundamental relationships: ruler and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, and friend and friend. DOES NOT DEAL WITH RELIGIOUS OR PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES. | 16 | |
| 2489271953 | Daoism | The way of harmony with nature | 17 | |
| 2489273754 | Legalism | Chinese; peace and order were achievable only though a centralized, tightly governed state | 18 | |
| 2489280542 | Mauryan & Gupta Dynasties | collection of city-states | 19 | |
| 2489286257 | King Ashoka & the diffusion of Buddhism | Great supporter that spread buddhism through india and its borders | 20 | |
| 2489286258 | Jainism | the way to liberation and bliss is to live a life of harmlessness and renunciation | 21 | |
| 2489289380 | Buddhism | India, China, and southeast Asia. Follow Four Noble Truths: All life is suffering, suffering is caused by desire, one can be freed of this desire | 22 | |
| 2489289381 | Hinduism | Began in India with the ARYAN. Belive in 1 supreme force, BRAHMA, the creator of all things. South Asia. emphasizes freedom from material world. CASTE SYSTEM: belive your born into it. | 23 | |
| 2489290846 | Polis- Sparta &Athens | Polis: city-state that shared a common cultur& identity. Sparta & Athens: 2 main city states. Athens was political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization. Sparta: agricultural and highly militaristic, not much individuality, highly disciplined. | 24 | |
| 2489290847 | Alexander the great- macedonian Empire | Tried to westernize everything | 25 | |
| 2489293940 | Hellenistic Empire | 26 | ||
| 2489298745 | Greek Philosophy- Plato, socrates, & Aristotle | truth could be discerned through rational thoughts and careful observations. Quest for goodness would lead to happiness and internal peace. "fathers of ratoiinal thinking" | 27 | |
| 2489308636 | Rome - from republic to empire | christianity became big. | 28 | |
| 2489312078 | Augustus Caesar & the expansion of the roman empire | Rome =capital of Western world. common currency, rule of law, civil service, protect travel ways for merchants. Stability returned. Egyptians or Hebrews maintained indivual cultural identities. Put under imperial power. Military conquests, growth of arts and sciences. | 29 | |
| 2489317863 | Roman Roads & Roman Law | Pax Romona was placed to help protect trade and make it "peaceful". Laws were uniform throughout the empire. Traditional customs. | 30 | |
| 2489318921 | Trade in the Mediterranean | European economic growth and the silk road declining stimulated creation of major commercial routes along the med coast. | 31 | |
| 2489322548 | Early Christianity - Jesus & Paul | they spread Christianity. Paul used to be anti christian but was converted by vision of Christ. It appealed to women and lower classes. Would affect developments in a large part of world. | 32 | |
| 2489322557 | Silk Road: Creation | established during HAN DYNASTY. linked the regions of ancient world in commerce. Countries began to transport and trade things through the silk road, and more people began to use it as a main roadway. Religion also spread through here. | 33 | |
| 2489328327 | Germanic Invasions | forced their way into all parts of roman empire. led to the collapse of ROMAN EMPIRE. | 34 | |
| 2489331989 | Fall of the Three Classical Empires | Maya: expanding pop exhausted envio. deserted cities. Han: reforms of land and currency were unsuccessful and caused chaos in economy. Famines, floods, unable to control large estate owners, and peasant uprisings. Wang Mang made bad mistakes and weakend empire Gupta: not enough taxes for military, could not defend invasions by the HUNS, land division increased power of provincial officials. Roman: tax rebolts by upper class, division of empire weakened west half, decrease in trade, germanic invasions and huns | 35 | |
| 2489333192 | Justinian's Code | Codification of Roman Law that kept Roman legal principles alive | 36 | |
| 2489334539 | Byzantine Economy and Society | Ruled by absolute authority, especially over the economy, | 37 | |
| 2489335449 | Legacy of Classical Greece | art, architecture, literature, science, and philosophy. Developed western knowledge. Hellenistic science helped out. | 38 | |
| 2489336262 | Fall of Byzantine Empire | many civil disputes. series of weak rulers. relied to much on foreign people. free peasantry. diff culture and religious views caused tension. loss of money made government raised taxes. | 39 | |
| 2489356673 | Byzantium and Russia: Close bonds | 40 | ||
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