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The Earth and its People CH 1 Identifications

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Civilizations
Asia
Fertile Crescent
Indus Valley Civilization
Hieroglyph
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Ancient history
3rd millennium BC
Babylonia
Harappa
Ancient Egypt

Justin Park Justin Park Chapter 1: From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000-1500 BCE (IDs and Significance) Before Civilization Civilization: an ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits Culture: Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Material culture refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. Culture also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology History: The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices

The Earth and its People CH 1 Summary

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Asia
Bronze Age
ancient india
Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
Harappa
Mesopotamia
Mohenjo-daro
Pottery
Irrigation
Technology
Business

Chapter ?1: ?From ?the ?Origins ?of ?Agriculture ?to ?the ?First ?River-??Valley ?Civilizations, ?8000-??1500 ?B.C.E. Chapter ?Summary Mesopotamia ? The ?Mesopotamian ?culture ?started ?with ?the ?Sumerian ?people ? Organized ?into ?city-??states ? Controlled ?the ?surrounding ?Agricultural ?land ? Priest ?originally ?ruled ?these ?lands ?but ?the ?power ?shifted ?over ?to ?a ?king ?that ?ruled ?over ?everything ? Social ?divisions ?based ?off ?of ?Hammurabi?s ?Code ? Public ?strived ?to ?appease ?their ?God?s ? They ?generally ?had ?God?s ?of ?the ?environment ?because ?of ?unpredictable ??loods ?and ?such ? Various ?technologies ?to ?respond ?to ?the ?agricultural ?changes ? EX: ?Cuneiform, ?Irrigation, ?stone ?age ?tools Egypt ? Surrounded ?by ?desert

Chapter AP world

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Ancient history
Classical Greece
Classical Athens
Greco-Persian Wars
Achaemenid Empire
Hellenistic civilization
Delian League
Tyrant
Second Persian invasion of Greece
Histories
Peloponnesian War
Eretria

? PAGE ?1? CHAPTER 4 Greece and Iran, 1000?30 b.c.e.. I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Ancient Iran, 1000?30 b.c.e. A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Geography and Resources 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Iran?s location, bounded by mountains, deserts, and the Persian Gulf, left it open to attack from Central Asian nomads. The fundamental topographical features included high mountains on the edges, salt deserts in the interior, and a sloping plateau crossed by mountain streams.

4 box graphic organizer

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Human development
behavior
Interpersonal relationships
Love
Psychoanalysis
Human behavior
Attachment theory
Personal life
Technology

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India

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religion
Religious philosophy
Human behavior
Spirituality
Mind-body interventions
Spiritual practice
Indian philosophy
Buddhism and Hinduism
Buddhism
Moksha
Nirvana
Buddhahood

Ch. 6 India and Southeast Asia, 1500 BCE ? 600 CE Why is India known as a subcontinent? India and Southeast Asia, 1500BCE ? 600CE Monsoons India and the Vedic Age (1500BCE ? 300CE) After the demise of the Indus Valley civilization, Indo- European warriors (Aryans) migrate into India Oral traditions tell of a struggle between the light skinned Aryans, and the darker skinned Dasas (native peoples of India) Aryans take Northern India Dasas forced into Central and Southern India Who were the Aryans? http://india.mrdonn.org/aryan.html India and the Vedic Age (1500BCE ? 300CE) Struggle leads to the development of the system of Varna (caste system?based on skin color) Aryan Caste system is composed of multiple social classes: Brahmins (priests) Kshatriya (warriors)

Unit 5

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? INCLUDEPICTURE "http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0761986286.01._PE41_.The-McDonaldization-of-Society._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET ??? 1914 to Present ? 1914?Present Major Developments I. Questions of periodization A. Continuities and breaks 1. Most tumultuous eras in world history a. ?age of extremes? 1. Tons of democracies vs. extremist dictatorships 2. Unprecedented prosperity vs. total poverty ? income gap widens b. 1914 clearest demarcation line 1. After war, nations fight everywhere for power and territory 2. Empires weakened, monarchies toppled, new nations rose 3. Last 100 years, most dramatic/tragic in recorded history 2. World Wars a. WWI 1. Destroyed several empires 2. Weakened all of Europe

Unit 4

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Unit 4 1750-1914 The Modern Era ?? ? 1750-1914 I. Questions of Periodization A. Continuities and Breaks 1. Continuities a. Absolutism in France b. Sense of cultural superiority of the Chinese c. ?Revolutionary? change didn?t supplant everything i. People learned to be both scientist and Christian ii. Slavery outlawed, but former slaves not embraced into society iii. Racism ? both social and institutional continued 2. Breaks a. French Revolution b. End of Japanese isolation and rapid modernization in Japan 3. What makes the ?modern age? a. Politics i. Trend away from monarchy toward greater political representation ii. Form of democracy or at least an appearance of democracy

Unit 3

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Americas
Humanities
Colonialism
Racism
African slave trade
Early Modern period
Slave Trade
Atlantic slave trade
slavery
British Empire
spanish empire
West Africa

1450-1750 Early Modern Period Major Developments I. Questions of Periodization A. Major points 1. Shift in power to the West a. Rise of the West with fall of China and India creates imbalance in power that favors Europeans for next 200 years 2. World becomes smaller ? almost all civilizations touched by trade 3. New Empires ? Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands, Ottoman, Russian, Mughal, Ming 4. Age of Gunpowder B. Changes at end of Postclassical Era 1. Independent societies (Aztecs, Incas) falling apart 2. Arab power declining 3. New invasions ? Mongols 4. Ottoman Empire gains power a. Europeans threatened by new force to East 5. Chinese flirt with trade, but Ming bureaucrats pull back 6. Europe enters age of exploration

Unit 2 600 C.E.–1450

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Asia
Eurasia
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silk road
Mongol empire
middle ages
Trade route
Ancient history
pax mongolica
Al-Andalus
Religion in China
Monguor people
religion

600 C.E.?1450 I. Questions of periodization A. Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 600 C.E. ? 1450 as a period B. Emergence of new empires and political systems C. Continuities and breaks within the period (e.g., the impact of the Mongols on international contacts and on specific societies) The Islamic world II. The rise and role of Dar al-Islam as a unifying cultural and economic force in Eurasia and Africa A. The Rise 1. Arab Region Before a. Vast, dry area b. Nomadic Bedouin tribes c. Criss-crossed by trade routes d. Mecca 1. Trading crossroads 2. center for Arab tribal religious worship 3. Ka?aba ? fallen from heaven and has special powers

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