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30 Cards in this Set
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Sumerians |
-creator of the first society in city states -established a number of independent city states in the south -3000 BC |
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Egyptian Pyramids |
-encapsulated pharaohs and kings |
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Founder of the Hebrews |
Abraham |
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Use of metals |
-tools for agriculture -weapons |
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Homo-erectus characteristics |
-hunters -nomads -controlled by elders -wooden and stone tools -did NOT farm |
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How did the nomads interact? |
TRADE |
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Untouchables |
-Pariahs -lowest class -considered untouchables |
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Khasytriya |
-warrior caste -second level |
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Vedas |
-Hindu sacred text -written in SANSKRIT |
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Siddhartha Gutama |
-founder of Buddhism
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Kalidasa |
-a Hindu author/poet |
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Well Field System |
-lord owns land and peasants cultivate it -peasant also owns land that they cultivate |
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Mandate of Heaven |
-Zouh Dynasty -King is rep of heaven but isn't divine -selected through talent and virtue, -king must please gods to save people from environmental disasters |
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Legalism |
-one strong ruler, officials can not be trusted -Qin Dynasty -Punishments!!!!!! |
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Great Wall |
-Qin Dynasty -built in fear of Nomads/Huns - |
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Grand Canal |
Sui Dynasty shipment of grain faster communication/ imperial highway |
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Fell to the Mongols |
-Song |
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Civil Service Exams |
Han Officials based on merit Only aristocrats were eligible |
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Sui Tang Song Achievements |
Sui: Canal Tang: Internal renewal, expansion, SE Asia Song: Civil Service exams, porcelain/gunpowerder |
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Postclassical inventions |
-compass, gunpowder, porcelain, trade, paper--inflation |
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Polis |
city states -citizens w political rights |
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Assembly |
-meeting of people in the city state |
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The Iliad |
-Homer -Gave an account of Gods-- definite structure |
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Triumvirate |
Pompey and Crassius and Caesar |
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Patricians |
Land owning upper class |
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Plebians |
commoner (farmer, merchant, artisan) |
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Soc. Plato. ajahsd;lajhf;aft |
Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught Alexander the Great |
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Women in both societies |
Greece: excluded from public life, little or no rights, couldnt own property, housewife Rome: more rights |
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Berbers |
Camel guys |
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Women in first century |
had more rights |
