Unit 1 Chp. 5 Flashcards

Veterans Tribute Mr. Givler

223884835	Kush 1000 BCE	an independent kindom flourishing along the upper Nile River	0
223884836	Olmec c 800-400 BCE	Central America's first civilization which dev. agriculture and produced accurate calendars. Had a POWERFUL influence on later American cultures	1
223884837	Teotihuacan c 400 BCE-400 CE	Followed the Olmec. Built the first great city in the Americas and dev. the first alphabet	2
223884838	Inca	American culture center in Andes Mountains. Domesticated the llama	3
223884839	Polynesian Peoples	island civilizations that reached Fiji and Samoa by 1000 BCE and Hawaii by 400 CE. They adapted lacal plants, introduced new animals, and imported a caste system led by a local king	4
223884840	Yellow Turbans	During the decline of classical China they were a Daoist group that promised a golden age that was to be brought about by divine magic	5
223884841	Rajput	Regional Indian princes who ruled after the fall of the guptas	6
223884842	Devi	The mother goddess of Hinduism. The worship of this deity encouraged new emotionalism in the religion	7
223884843	Allah	Sole deity in the Islamic faith	8
223884844	Consantinople	Center of the Roman Empire after 312 CE, established by the last strong emperor, Constantine	9
223884845	Byzantine Empire	Successor to the Roman Empire in the E. Mediterranean. It was artistically creative and active in trade. Its emperors, esp. in Justinian, tried to revive the heritage of Rome throughout its previous territory but failed. Many centuries of fighting Muslims led to its demise in 1453	10
223884846	Augustinie	One of the greatest Christian theologians. Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt	11
223884847	Coptic Christianity	Largest branch of African Christianity, centered in Egypt	12
223884848	Syncretism	The blending of cultures.	13
223884849	Bodhisattvas	Buddhist doctrine that held that some people could gain nirvana through meditation. This shows that Buddhism shifted from a system of ethics into a more emotional belief	14
223884850	Mahayana	or the "Greater Vehicle" E. Asian form of Buddhism that emphasized its founder as a divine savior	15
223884851	Benedict	Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman Empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century; paralleled development of Basil's rules in Byzantine Empire	16
223884852	Maya 300-900 CE	Classic culture emerging in S Mexico and Central America contemorary with Teotihuacan; extended over a broad region; ft. monumental architecture, written lang, calendrical and mathematical systems, and highly dev. religion	17
223897749	Axum and Ethiopia	Axum defeated Kush around 300 BCE. Ethiopia then defeated Axum. Both these African kingdoms had active contacts with the E Mediterranean world unitll after Rome's fall	18
223897750	Shintoism	Japanese religion that provided for worship of political rulers and spirits of nature. This was the basis for teh worship of the Japanese emperor as a religious figure	19
223897751	Sui and Tang	Chinese Dynasties following the fall of the Han. Under Tang leadership esp., China enjoyed one of the most glorious eras in its history. Confucianism and the bureaucracy were revived	20
223897752	Jesus of Nazareth	Jewish teacher who preached reforms in Judaism. His followers believed him to be the Messiah, the savior sent by God to redeem humanity. Over time, his disciples spread Jesus' message of compassion and piety throughout the Roman Empire	21
223897753	Paul	Early Christian leader who saw the faith in a different light. Instead of a reform of Judaism, Paul helped turn the faith into a new religion that welcoed non-Jews	22
223897754	Sahara	Vast desert region of N Africa which extends from Atlantic Ocean to the Nile River	23
223897755	Islam	Monotheistic religion in which the supreme being is Allah and the chief prophet and founder is Mohammad; dev. in the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century CE	24
223897756	Animism	a belief in the existence of many spirits and demons which are found in the natural world	25