3565499821 | Prehistory | Time period before writing | 0 | |
3565499822 | Neolithic Revolution | Shift that occurred from hunting and gathering to agriculture societies | 1 | |
3565499823 | Basic characteristics of a civilization | Government, Cities, Religion, Social Structure, Writing, Art | 2 | |
3565499824 | Importance of writing | Enabled people to keep accurate records | 3 | |
3565499827 | Tigris-Eurphrates | Mesopotamia | 4 | |
3565499828 | Nile | Egypt | 5 | |
3565499829 | Indis-Hurapha | India | 6 | |
3565499830 | Haung He | China | 7 | |
3565499831 | Sumerians | World's first complex civilization | 8 | |
3565499832 | Judaism | First monotheistic religion | 9 | |
3565499834 | Ancient Egypt time periods | Old, Middle, New | 10 | |
3565499836 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | The Capitals of early Indian Society, traded with mesopotamians | 11 | |
3565499837 | Aryans | Probably originated from Ukraine or Southern Russia, helped spread variation of religion, Probably the first to domesticate horse, created caste system | 12 | |
3565499838 | Caste system (Remember the order) | Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Suitches | 13 | |
3565499839 | Hindu concepts | dharma, samsara, varna, karma.. | 14 | |
3565499840 | dharma | Universal truth | 15 | |
3565499841 | samsara | Repeating the cycle of birth | 16 | |
3565499842 | varna | quality of person | 17 | |
3565499843 | karma | sum of actions | 18 | |
3565499845 | Time period and dynastic order | Yangshuo, Xia, Shang, Zhou, | 19 | |
3565499846 | Mandate of heaven | Created by Zhou: Help justify rule, allow rulers to serve as link between heaven and earth | 20 | |
3565499847 | Period of the Warring States | Big civil war during Zhou dynasty | 21 | |
3565499849 | Olmecs | First society of Mesoamerica | 22 | |
3565499850 | The relationship between the aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Guinea | The people of Australia were hunters, while New Guinea was agriculture society | 23 | |
3565499852 | Dynastic Order | Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids | 24 | |
3565499853 | Importance of the Persian Roads (The Royal Road) | Well maintained road throughout persia, allowed for efficient system of communication to be spread throughout empire | 25 | |
3565499855 | Confucius beliefs on political and social harmony | Rose from proper arranging of human relationships | 26 | |
3565499856 | Qin Shihuangdi's policies and contributions | Created strong centralized government, began construction of large public work projects, helped build protective walls around border cities, adopted legalism (outlawed learning and confucianism ). | 27 | |
3565499857 | Liu Pang | Peasant who founded the Pang Dynasty | 28 | |
3565499860 | Indian political landscape during the time of the Aryans | Broken into small regional kingdoms | 29 | |
3565499861 | Siddhartha Gautama | The Buddha, founded buddhism | 30 | |
3565499862 | The role merchants played in the spread of Buddhism | By trade along the silk road taught others of buddhism | 31 | |
3565499863 | Key of trade through Indian Ocean basin | Control the Monsoon Winds | 32 | |
3565499864 | Asoka | Greatest ruler in history of India, adopted Buddhism | 33 | |
3565499866 | Greek colonization | Helped increase size throughout mediterranean, spread of Greek language culture, helped quicken tempo of social life | 34 | |
3565499867 | Women in the Greek world | Not citizens, little rights | 35 | |
3565499868 | Thucydides | He is considered to be the greatest historian of ancient world | 36 | |
3565499869 | Results of Alexander the Great's conquests | Helped spread greek culture, language, art, architecture throughout southeast asia | 37 | |
3565499871 | Roman policy toward conquered people | Very generous used citizenship as a political tool to create peace between them and conquered people | 38 | |
3565499872 | Augustus Caesar | Rome's first emperor, helped create monarchia even though it was a Republic | 39 | |
3565499873 | Paterfamilias | Roman term which referred to the patriarchal nature of Roman families | 40 | |
3565499875 | Edict of Milan | Legalized christianity throughout Roman empire | 41 | |
3565499877 | The land route of the silk roads | Chang'an to Antioch | 42 | |
3565499879 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | 43 | |
3565499880 | Shari'ah | Law code that regulates daily life of Muslims | 44 | |
3565499883 | Muslim world contributions to Europeans | Helped Europeans recover works from Aristotle from them | 45 | |
3565499884 | Umayyad dynasty's treatment toward conquered people | Allowed them to maintain religions | 46 | |
3565499885 | Five Pillars of Islam | Call to Prayer, Pilgrimage, Fasting, Charity to Pair, Statement | 47 | |
3565499886 | Jihad | Struggle in the way of god | 48 | |
3565499887 | Resentment against Umayyad rule | Non Arabs had no power | 49 | |
3565499888 | Mesopotamia and Persia influence on the role of women in the Islamic world | Created a more Patriarchal society | 50 | |
3565499889 | How did young men prepare for the civil service examination in China during the Tang dynasty? | Practice writing on confucian text | 51 | |
3565499890 | Neo-Confucianism | Emergence of new form of Confucianism that emerged during Tang and Sang dynastty | 52 | |
3565499891 | Grand Canal | Connected Haung He and Changjiang | 53 | |
3565499892 | Technological developments during the Tang dynasty | Gunpowder, boating technology, chinware | 54 | |
3565499893 | Chinese expansion during the Tang dynasty | China armies pushed into Korea, Tibet, Vietnam, Manchuria, or southeast asia | 55 | |
3565499894 | Foot binding | Binding of elite women's feet during Tang dynasty | 56 | |
3565499895 | Credit system in China | Began to use credit system in Tang and Sang dynasty | 57 | |
3565499896 | Chinese literature | Began to flourish during Sang and Tang dynasties | 58 | |
3565499897 | Shintoism | Japanese religion that ancestors have influence on daily lives | 59 | |
3565499898 | Buddhism and Daoism in China | After collapse of Han dynasty people became attracted to bring stability | 60 | |
3565499899 | Zen Buddhism and Buddhism in Japan | Brought from China, The popular sect of Buddhism in Japan | 61 | |
3565499900 | China and trade with Southeast Asia | Trade began to flourish in area in Tang and Sang | 62 | |
3565499901 | Political structure of postclassical India | Mostly small regions | 63 | |
3565499902 | Factors that led Islam to India | Islamic armies moving from West to East to Northwest India | 64 | |
3565499903 | Monsoons effect on farming in India | Six months of rain and six months of harvest time | 65 | |
3565499904 | Indian Ocean trade | dictated by Monsoons winds | 66 | |
3565499905 | India's influence on Southeast Asia | They became a major trade hub for the region | 67 | |
3565499906 | The Byzantine Empire/Rome | considered by Historians a continuation of what was Rome | 68 | |
3565499907 | Byzantium's geographical advantage | Was only one narrow landway into city | 69 | |
3565499908 | Constantinople... | Constructed by Constantin Built in order to keep watch over Sassanid Empire in Persia Wealthier and more productive part of old Roman empire | 70 | |
3565499909 | Caesaropapism | Term in which empire has a mixture of religion and political authority | 71 | |
3565499910 | Justinian's law code... | Most long lasting political achievement Codification of old Roman law | 72 | |
3565499911 | Carolingian Renaissance | First major political structure after fall of Rome, by Franks | 73 | |
3565499912 | Charlemagne | Most important ruler | 74 | |
3565499913 | Theme system | Refers to a system of land grants given to soldiers fighting for Byzantine army. | 75 | |
3565499914 | Feudalism | The political and social order of Medieval Europe | 76 | |
3565499915 | Lord/Vassal relationship | Relationship based obligations on Protection for one another | 77 | |
3565499916 | Agricultural production in medieval Europe | It increased as a result of heavier plows | 78 | |
3565499917 | The Great Schism | The split between The Roman Catholic And Eastern Orthodox church | 79 | |
3565499918 | Norse mariner merchants | Carried scandinavian products to bassad empire in exchange for carolingian | 80 |
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