9794271299 | Mesopotamia | 1st civilization/Tigris + Euphrates/ Sumerians | 0 | |
9794271300 | Hammurabis Code | the first known written laws/babylon | 1 | |
9794271301 | Fertile Crescent | Mesopotamia | 2 | |
9794271302 | Cuniform | Sumerian writing/1st type of writing | 3 | |
9794271303 | Hanging Gardens | Babylonian builidings | 4 | |
9794271304 | Ziggurat | A pyramid shaped temple tower | 5 | |
9794271305 | Deity | A god | 6 | |
9794271306 | Polytheism vs. Monotheism | many gods vs. one God | 7 | |
9794271307 | monarchy | rule by a single person/king+queen | 8 | |
9794271308 | Pharaohs | Egyptian god-kings | 9 | |
9794271309 | Pyramids | Tombs for the pharaohs | 10 | |
9794271310 | "Gift of the Nile" | Egypt | 11 | |
9794271311 | papyrus | Egyptian paper | 12 | |
9794271312 | Heiroglyphics | Egyptian writing | 13 | |
9794271313 | dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family | 14 | |
9794271314 | Dynastic Cycle | The rise and fall of dynasties | 15 | |
9794271315 | frontier | the border of what is known | 16 | |
9794271316 | Foot binding | china/women | 17 | |
9794271317 | Great Wall of China | kept mongols out of china | 18 | |
9794271318 | serculture | silk production/china | 19 | |
9794271319 | Ancestor Veneration | Worship and respect for ancestors | 20 | |
9794271320 | filial piety | respect for parents | 21 | |
9794271321 | Civil Service Exams | sui and qing dynasties/confusian | 22 | |
9794271322 | Buddhism | spread on silk road/indian ocean eightfold path wheel of law | 23 | |
9794271323 | Silk Road | Trade route stretching from China into Europe. | 24 | |
9794271324 | Madate of Heaven | rulers can be replaced with sign from gods | 25 | |
9794271325 | Indus River | indus/india | 26 | |
9794271326 | well planned cities | indus | 27 | |
9794271327 | plumbing system | indus | 28 | |
9794271328 | street grids | indus | 29 | |
9794271329 | Hinduism | india/oldest religion/reincarnation/poly | 30 | |
9794271330 | vedas | hindu holy book | 31 | |
9794271331 | karma | destiny or fate | 32 | |
9794271332 | Dharma (Buddhism) | order to the universe | 33 | |
9794271333 | Neolithic Revolution | farming-cities/specialized labor | 34 | |
9794271334 | domestication | raising plants/animals | 35 | |
9794271335 | agriculture | farming | 36 | |
9794271336 | irrigation system | water to crops | 37 | |
9794271337 | monogamy | marriage to a single mate | 38 | |
9794271338 | Patriarchy | Male dominated society | 39 | |
9794271339 | syncretism | A blending of two or more religious traditions | 40 | |
9794271340 | Animism | objects/places/things have a soul | 41 | |
9794271341 | pastoralism | a strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals | 42 | |
9794271342 | characteristics of civilization | complex institutions, record keeping, advanced technology, advanced cities, specialized workers(A SCAR) | 43 | |
9794271343 | Sparta vs. Athens | sparta=military/athens=brains | 44 | |
9794271344 | philosophy | athens/greece | 45 | |
9794271345 | Direct Democracy | people power (Athens/greece) | 46 | |
9794271346 | architecture | greece=white building w/ colums | 47 | |
9794271347 | city states | greece | 48 | |
9794271348 | hellenism | mix of greek+asian/ Alexander The Great | 49 | |
9794271106 | Representative Democracy | rome (3r's) | 50 | |
9794271107 | Caste System | society grouped by status(india) | 51 | |
9794271108 | Rule of Law | No one is above the law | 52 | |
9794271109 | Twelve Tables | Rome's first code of laws | 53 | |
9794271110 | Roman Roads | connected empire and spread christianity | 54 | |
9794271111 | arenas/dome/arches | rome | 55 | |
9794271112 | Fall of Rome | barbarians. too big. political corruption. disease. | 56 | |
9794271113 | Diasporas | Jews living outside Israel. | 57 | |
9794271114 | Constantine | First Christian emperor of rome | 58 | |
9794271115 | Empires | one leader expands | 59 | |
9794271116 | medieval/dark ages/middle ages/feudal | bad time in europe | 60 | |
9794271117 | church power/pope | medieval/more powerful than king | 61 | |
9794271118 | Monasteries | Communities of monks | 62 | |
9794271119 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 63 | |
9794271120 | Mongols | Genghis Khan and largest land empire | 64 | |
9794271121 | Khan | A Mongol ruler | 65 | |
9794271122 | Kow Tow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 66 | |
9794271123 | Tributary System | An arrangement in which other states had to pay money or provide goods to honor the Chinese emperor | 67 | |
9794271124 | Monsoon | Seasonal winds | 68 | |
9794271125 | Fuedalism | medieval political system | 69 | |
9794271126 | manoralism | medieval economic system | 70 | |
9794271127 | feifs | land owned by feudal lord | 71 | |
9794271128 | Medieval Art | dark+religious | 72 | |
9794271129 | Chilvary | code of conduct for knights | 73 | |
9794271130 | Bushido | Japanese code of honor | 74 | |
9794271131 | Vassals | Lesser lords | 75 | |
9794271132 | guilds | powerful medieval craftsmen assosistion | 76 | |
9794271133 | Hanseatic League | a group of Northern German cities and towns that worked together to promote and protect trade | 77 | |
9794271134 | gentry | elite wealthy individuals | 78 | |
9794271135 | Crusades | A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia | 79 | |
9794271136 | Black Plague | disease | 80 | |
9794271137 | Martin Luther | began the Protestant Reformation | 81 | |
9794271138 | Reformation | new churches | 82 | |
9794271139 | Byzantine | East Roman empire, continued after West fell | 83 | |
9794271140 | orthodox | Byzantine Christianity | 84 | |
9794271141 | Dar al islam | House of islam | 85 | |
9794271142 | hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca | 86 | |
9794271143 | ulamas+sufists | types of muslim scholars | 87 | |
9794271144 | Shariah | Islamic law | 88 | |
9794271145 | shia vs sunni | two branches of islam | 89 | |
9794271146 | Sultan | Muslim ruler | 90 | |
9794271147 | swahili | African bantu launguage | 91 | |
9794271148 | African element that made them rich | gold (au) | 92 | |
9794271149 | essential african trade item | salt | 93 | |
9794271150 | religion that moved to africa via trade | islam | 94 | |
9794271151 | griots | a west African storyteller | 95 | |
9794271152 | Entrepot | trading port | 96 | |
9794271153 | Tang Dynasty | porcelain and printing | 97 | |
9794271154 | Song Dynasty | rockets and fireworks | 98 | |
9794271155 | Single point perspective | renassance art focused on a single point | 99 | |
9794271261 | Indivualism | focus on individual not God | 100 | |
9794271262 | Humanism | Focus on human potential and achievements | 101 | |
9794271263 | secular | nonreligious | 102 | |
9794271264 | Venice | cross road between europe and asia | 103 | |
9794271265 | church paid artists | renaissance | 104 | |
9794271266 | Protestant Reformation | new church movement | 105 | |
9794271267 | 95 Theses | Martin Luther | 106 | |
9794271268 | Indulgence | Ticket to heaven | 107 | |
9794271269 | Gutenberg | Printing press | 108 | |
9794271270 | Counter Reformation | Catholic church fought back | 109 | |
9794271271 | 360 day calendar | mayans | 110 | |
9794271272 | disappearance | mayans | 111 | |
9794271273 | cortez | conquered the aztecs | 112 | |
9794271274 | conquered | aztecs and incas | 113 | |
9794271275 | Chinampas | floating gardens | 114 | |
9794271276 | small pox | Infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish that devastated native populations. | 115 | |
9794271277 | Machu Picchu | Inca city found high up in the mountains | 116 | |
9794271278 | Quipus | A system of record keeping with string | 117 | |
9794271279 | mit a | mandatory public service in inca empire | 118 | |
9794271280 | Andes Mountains | Inca | 119 | |
9794271281 | God/Gold/Glory | three reasons that motivated europe to seek new trade routes to asia | 120 | |
9794271282 | navigational technology | facilitate exploration | 121 | |
9794271283 | marco polo | italian explorer to asia | 122 | |
9794271284 | zheng he | chinese muslim explorer | 123 | |
9794271285 | Christopher Columbus | Discovered America | 124 | |
9794271286 | Vasco de Gama | First European to reach India by sea | 125 | |
9794271287 | Hernan Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs | 126 | |
9794271288 | Fransisco Pizarro | conquered the Incas | 127 | |
9794271289 | Ferdinand Magellan | First to circumnavigate the globe | 128 | |
9794271290 | Colombian Exchange | trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the new world colonies. | 129 | |
9794271291 | slave trade triangle | europe to africa to americas | 130 | |
9794271292 | Middle Passage | the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America | 131 | |
9794271293 | Great Schism | the official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine church | 132 | |
9794271294 | Caliphate | Muslim empire | 133 | |
9794271295 | Motivation for exploration | find new route to asia 4 spices | 134 |
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