The World in the 1920's: Challenges to European Dominance
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| 295146066 | Similarities Christianity and Islam | One God who rules history; existence of Angels and prophets (David, Jesus, Adam, Noah, Abraham); Heaven & Hell; God's future judgment. | 0 | |
| 295146067 | Cultural Diffusion (China) | Some aspects include spoken and written language; a definite shared aspect is the use of chopsticks as eating utensils which were adopted around Confucius' time because forks were sharp and dangerous (and thus considered barbaric). | 1 | |
| 295146068 | Code of Hammurabi | Well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. | 2 | |
| 295146069 | Fall of Western Rome & Han Empire | R:difficulties in administering vast empire creates rivalries and divisions of authority; Germanic invaions by Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths. H:weak rulers led to the decline of the central government; peasant uprisings because land was concentrated in the hands of the wealthy | 3 | |
| 295146070 | Effect of Bantu Migrations | Native peoples were pushed out; territorial wars; ideas & languages exchanged; ethnic groups intermingled creating new culture | 4 | |
| 295146071 | Inca & Aztec Similarities | Based on old cultures; military & imperial org.; nobility were personel of state; State controlled eco.; regional power respected as long as King soverignity upheld; No nomadic takeovers by empire, overtook sedentary people only. | 5 | |
| 295146072 | How 1400's marked a new beginning | Travel and trade increased dramatically. | 6 | |
| 295146073 | Similarities of European colonial empires | Began to expand westward taking over lands belonging to other empires | 7 | |
| 295146074 | Haitian Revolution (global impact) | The revolution likely inspired a temporary increase in slave rebellions in the US, and this scared Southern plantation owners concerned about their own slaves rebelling. This fear resulted in a growing conservatism in US political culture, and leaders began to turn against the ideology of the French Revolution when they saw its influence in the Caribbean. The neighboring revolution brought the slavery question to the forefront of US politics, and the resulting intensification of racial divides and sectional politics ended the idealism of the Revolutionary period | 8 | |
| 295146075 | Social Darwinism | The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. | 9 | |
| 295146076 | Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | 10 | |
| 295192663 | Early civs before 600 BCE | Polytheism (Greek); Jainism (India); Hinduism (India); Judaism (Israel); Confucianism (China); Daoism (China); Buddhism (China/Asia); Christianity (Romans) | 11 | |
| 295192664 | Judaism and Hindu similarities | ancient religions; monotheistic; both are a caste system; both have sacred writings (vedas in Hinduism, tanakh in judaism); afterlife in judaism comparable to moksha in Hinduism | 12 | |
| 295192665 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 13 | |
| 295192666 | Spread of Religions | ... | 14 | |
| 295192667 | Crusades | A series of religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope & the Catholic Church, with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem. | 15 | |
| 295192668 | Indian Ocean Trading Networks | The world's largest sea-based system of comunication and exchange before 1500 C.E., Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops. | 16 | |
| 295192669 | Sub-Saharan Africa economy | ... | 17 |
