Unit one terms, 1-30 terms. Mr. Miller's class.
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| 218783936 | hominids | SE Africa, 3 Million years ago, upright/speech, Mary/Louis Leakey | 0 | |
| 218783937 | Paleolithic Era | 250,000 to 250,000 yrs ago, pre-agrarian, clans w/ extended families, polytheistic w/ cave paintings | 1 | |
| 218783938 | homo sapiens | human beings, e.g. Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, noted for tools, clothing, dwellings | 2 | |
| 218783939 | Neolithic Era | agrarian w/ animals, 10000 BCE, Went from Middle East to India to Europe and East Asia, population is up, with specialization of labor, due to no need for everyone to grow food, class society | 3 | |
| 218783940 | Jomon Culture | 2500-230 BCE, Mesolithic culture, Hokkaido, Japan area, dwellings= sunken pits. Hunt and gather. Ainu are descendants of them. | 4 | |
| 218783941 | Catal Huyuk | 6500-5800 BCE. Turkey near Cumra city, lines of development, paintings of hunting, agriculture and cattle, considered one of largest civ. | 5 | |
| 218783942 | Aborigines | c. 45000. patrilinieal, Dreamtime culture. Pre-Euro, 300,000 to 1000000. Post-Euro, 400,000. | 6 | |
| 218783943 | The Bronze Age | 3000-1800 BCE. metallurgy, use of copper. copper + tin = bronze. | 7 | |
| 218783944 | Bantu Migrations | African movements, c. 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Niger- Congo region, Bantu languages are off shoots, decentralized w/ chief and elders. Iron tools used for agriculture, organized military. | 8 | |
| 218783945 | Polynesia | islands populated by eastward from New Guinea, c. 1500 BCE. Double hulled ships, great sailors, 1000 CE, finally settled. | 9 | |
| 218783946 | Assyrian Empire | 1000s to 600s BCE, Turkey to Egypt Area, military threat, based on meritocracy. | 10 | |
| 218783947 | Silk Road | 100 BCE to 1200 CE. China to European world. Silks, spices, medicine, preservatives, traveled ideas, disease, Han China to Romans, Tang and Mongols | 11 | |
| 218783948 | Minoans | 3000-1100 BCE, island of Crete, power = use of sea, capital = city of Knosses, named after King Minos, influential to Mycenean culture, cities/palaces, trading, use of writing, e.g. Linear A, Linear B. | 12 | |
| 218783949 | Myceneans | oldest & strongest Greek city/states; mountainous and rocky terrain; dominate the Mediterranean; 1600-1100BC--known as the Mycenean Age--->known as warriors; military prowess which led to wealth (1300 BC Lion Gate to the Palace) | 13 | |
| 218783950 | Athens | democracy (Solon softened), gave power to land owners, seapower | 14 | |
| 218783951 | Sparta | opposite to Athens, militaristic, slaves do agrarian, simple, boys brought up in military | 15 | |
| 218783952 | Olympics | Greek festival, every 4 years, after one century ended, then begin c. 1900 | 16 | |
| 218783953 | Sophocles | Dramatist, priest, general, contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides, introduced- third actor, chorus, created Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Trachiniae | 17 | |
| 218783954 | Socrates | Philosopher, reveal of character, teacher of Plato (recorded his thoughts) charges of immorality = forced to drink poison | 18 | |
| 218783955 | Aristotle | Student of Plato, founder of Lyceum (school) influential to philosophy, impact on zoology | 19 | |
| 218783956 | Peloponnesian Wars | Athens vs. Sparta, Athens navy strong, Sparta army strong. 421 BC, 1st- Pericles vs. Archidames, Athens gets plague 415 BC, 2nd- Athena lose assault 405, 3rd- Athenian navy defeated 404, 4th- Athens surrenders, broken up to Thirty Tyrants | 20 | |
| 218783957 | Macedonian | Contemporary w/ Greeks. 800-146 BCE, gives natural resources to Greece, receives cultural gifts, Alexander the Great's empire, fragments to 3 generals territ. | 21 | |
| 218783958 | Philip II of Macedon | father of Alexander the Great, promote peace to promote military, provoked Greeks to unite only to be defeated, family assasinates him, with help from wife, Olympias, son. | 22 | |
| 218783959 | Alexander the Great | son of Philip II of Macedonia, student of Aristotle, took over almost all of world (Europe, then Persia area, then India) 326, tired troops mutiny, melded races are criticized, dies of alcohol poisoning at age 33 | 23 | |
| 218783960 | The Huns | mid-300s, central Asia, to take over- Alani, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Romans, amazing archers/horseriders, Roman allies, take over Romans when debt not paid beaten by conglomeration of tribes, 455 | 24 | |
| 218783961 | Hellenistic Dynasty | 322-30 BCE. Alexander the Great's empire, broken up to Ptolemy in Egypt, Seleucus in Persia, spread of Greek culture (Greece = hellas), Alexandria- capital, largest library of time. | 25 | |
| 218783962 | Etruscans | 700-400 BCE, pre-Roman. agrarian and commercial, defeated by Greek, Romans and Gauls, taken over 509 BCE. | 26 | |
| 218783963 | Roman Republic | 509 BCE, Patrician over Pleibus, then Mediterranean class uprisings by Spartacus, Julius and Pompey, Julius takes over, 48 BCE, dies next year | 27 | |
| 218783964 | Roman Empire | After Caesar dies, Octavian Augustus takes over, as first emperor, Pax Romana follows, then cruel rulers. Christianity, splits to east and west, defeat by Goths, last emperor's name is Romulus Augustus. | 28 | |
| 218783965 | Roman Senate | appointed by consuls,81 BCE, controls finances/government, members are powerful landowners, 500 CE, lose control | 29 |
