4440497866 | early agricultural and technological development | 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE | 0 | |
4440498326 | development of the earliest civilizations | 3500 to 1500 BCE | 1 | |
4440498898 | classical civilizations | 1000 BCE to 600 CE | 2 | |
4440500789 | first Chinese dynasty and river | Shang yellow river | 3 | |
4440503022 | second Chinese dynasty (followed the Shang) | Zhou | 4 | |
4440503603 | what followed the Zhou dynasty | period of warring states | 5 | |
4440503604 | What the zhou ruled by | the mandate of heaven | 6 | |
4440508075 | seafaring people from the easter mediterranean who set up colonies in North Africa and southern Europe | Phoenicians | 7 | |
4440509747 | Jewish migration | Abraham and his family settled in Canaan, then migrated to Egypt to escape drought. Under Moses they returned to Canaan and established the kingdom of Israel | 8 | |
4440512767 | herding people that invaded the Indian subcontinent and imposed the caste system on the natives; their stories became the basis for Hindusim | Aryans | 9 | |
4440515521 | Three major migrations from 3500 to 1100 BCE | Phoenicians, Israelites, Aryans | 10 | |
4440516521 | how the classical civilizations were different from the river valley civilizations (3) | 1. kept better and more recent records 2. provide direct links to today's world 3. were expansionist | 11 | |
4440519859 | The classical civilizations (6 total, 3 regions) | Greece, Rome, Zhou, Han, Mauryan, Gupta | 12 | |
4440523658 | founder of the Mauryan empire | Chandragupta Maurya | 13 | |
4440524170 | capital of the Mauryan empire | Paliputra | 14 | |
4440525362 | grandson of Chandragupta who converted to Buddhism and helped to spread of Buddhism through his pillars | Asoka | 15 | |
4440528481 | The gupta empire was bigger or smaller than the mauryan empire | smaller | 16 | |
4440528482 | founder of the Gupta Empire | Chandra Gupta | 17 | |
4440530065 | before the Qin dynasty was the | Zhou Dynasty | 18 | |
4440543714 | founder of the Qin dynasty | Shi Huangdi | 19 | |
4440544556 | Shi Huangdi's preferred philosophy | legalism | 20 | |
4440545220 | What destroyed the Qin dynasty | rebellions because of high taxes | 21 | |
4440546256 | Han's capital | Chang'an | 22 | |
4440546941 | warrior emperor of the Han dynasty | Wu Di | 23 | |
4440548386 | when rome was founded | 800 BCE | 24 | |
4440548387 | when rome became a republic | 509 BCE | 25 | |
4440549258 | lower class in Roman society | plebians | 26 | |
4440549259 | upper class in Roman society | patricians | 27 | |
4440552685 | Eventually, plebeians were granted the right to elect ________ who were able to veto laws | tribunes | 28 | |
4440553493 | Punic Wars | Carthage (north Africa, Phonecians) vs Rome, Rome won | 29 | |
4440555024 | Why the Roman republic collapsed | falling grain prices made farmers bankrupt; civil wars and revolts | 30 | |
4440557701 | Who made himself dictator of the Roman empire | Julius caesar | 31 | |
4440559566 | Pax Romana | 27 BCE to early 200s CE | 32 | |
4440560740 | Pax Romana started under this Roman emperor | Augustus Caesar | 33 | |
4440561368 | When Rome split | 300s ce | 34 | |
4440561369 | Eastern half of the Roman Empire and capital | Byzantine; constantinople | 35 | |
4440563704 | Fall of western Rome when it was taken over by Germanic Goths | 476 CE | 36 | |
4440564938 | trade routes that linked the classical civilizations (4) | silk road, indian ocean trade, saharan trade, sub-saharan trade | 37 | |
4440607289 | 2 major empires in west Africa between 600 and 1450 CE | Ghana and Mali | 38 | |
4440607290 | founder of Mali | Sundiata | 39 | |
4440608474 | capital of Mali | Timbuktu (home to mosques and madrases, world center of trade, education, and sophistication) | 40 | |
4440610364 | group that conquered Ghana in 1000 CE | Almoravids | 41 | |
4440611471 | Empires in east Africa | Swahili city-states | 42 | |
4440612211 | languages spoken in the Swahili city-states | Bantu and Arabic | 43 |
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