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73 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of the Neolithic Age
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Intervention of agriculture, domestication of animals
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Another name for Neolithic Age
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New Stone Age
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River Valley Civilizations with their rivers (name 4)
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Egypt: the nile river
Mesopotamia: Tigris and Euphrates Inda: Indus China: Huang He |
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What caused migration?
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Discovery of Fire and Animal Skins helped promote migration to cooler climates
Hunting and Gathering caused people to follow whatever they were hunting |
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How did people originally get into Alaska/the Americas? (Think a longggg time ago!)
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Land Bridge- Siberia to Alaska
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Another name for Paleolithic, what materials were used
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Old Stone Age, simple tools
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What religions were there mostly in the River Valley civilizations?
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Polytheistic religions
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The 1st known monotheistic religion is.... (and what was the holy book used)
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Judaism! And the Torah was used, along with the 10 commandments.
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What was the first known, spoken alphabet?
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Phoenician Alphabet
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The first written code of laws?
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Code of Hammurabi
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Technologies found in Ancient China
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Ox drawn plow; 3000 BC
Pulleys and winding gears to help with mining Iron Tools (From the Han Dynasty: Water Powered mills and Paper) |
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When did Buddhism enter China? (Think dynasties!)
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Towards the end of the Han dynasty
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Traits of Buddhism:
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Eightfold Path
Four Noble Truths |
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Who was the founder of Hinduism?
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There is no founder, as we know of today
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What are the Vedas?
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The sacred book of Hinduism
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What is....
Brahma? Gurus? Vishnu? Karma? Dharma? Reincarnation? |
Brahma: Holiness in everything
Gurus: Mystics Vishnu: Preserver/God Karma: Life's actions determine your fate Dharma: Ethical conduct determine your fate Reincarnation: You are born again into a new life |
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What did Asoka do?
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He was bloodthirsty UNTIL he converted to Buddhism and then started building wells and hospitals and all that fun jazz
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Greek technologies included...?
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Aqueducts to carry water to remote areas
Storm water and sewage systems in urban areas Geometry Crane Water wheel/mill |
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Roman technologies included...?
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Even LARGER aqueducts! (Yay!)
Large Arcs Great road system that connected the empire |
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Greek art focused on
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Power of the human thought
Humans in motion |
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Greek Politics included
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City states
Ruled by tyrants Athens= democracy Sparta and other= aristocracy |
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Roman politics included
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Republic: senate and councils
Large military Focused on law, loyalty to senate, and aristocratic rule |
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Peloponnesian War was between
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Athens and Sparta
(THIS IS SPARTAAAA) |
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Alexander the Great controlled what empire and created what culture?
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Macedonia
He created Hellenistic culture (Egypt, Indian, and Greek cultures combined) |
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What was Shintoism?
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Nature Spirits. It was big in Japan
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Who did Islam originate from? (Think tribes!)
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Muhammad, who was part of the Bedouin tribes
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The Sunni's supported
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Anyone could rule
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The Shi'a supported
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Muhammad's descendants as rulers
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What was the farming system like in the Middle Ages?
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The Three Field system
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What did Charles Martel do?
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He defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours, aka one of the battles of the Crusades.
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What were Serfs?
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Peasants that worked the land in exchange for protection. The peasants were bound to the land that they were working on
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Why did the Europeans colonize?
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God
Gold Glory |
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What were the Aztec Chinampas?
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Floating Garden beds used for agriculture
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What was Quipu?
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Record keeping with knotted strings
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What was Texcoco?
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The capital Aztec city
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Who was Nezhualcoyoti?
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The King of Texcoco
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Who was the first to colonize?
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Portugal, BUT doesn't last very long because of size
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What did Prince Henry the Navigator do?
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He paves the way for Portugal to colonize
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Who sails around India in 1448 for Portugal?
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De Gama
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Who discovered the Americas?
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Columbus
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Where did the Renaissance start?
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ITALY!
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What changes did Gutenburg's printing press make?
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It increased literary rates, spread religious ideas, and encouraged schools
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What did Martian Luther protest?
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He protested the corrupt practices of the Catholic Church and preaches that salvation can't be earned through good works and bribery
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What did Jean Calvin insist?
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He insisted that there was predestination: God knows who is going to heaven the minute that person gets on earth
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What were the Slavs of Russia?
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They were mainly framers living in small villages
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How did Russia rise in power?
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Igor conquers Kieve and it grows in wealth and power. Ivan the Great unites Russian territories and gets power over the church: he is called the tsar
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What was the Chinese age of splendor?
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The Ming dynasty
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Who is the emperor?
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Zhu
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What is subordination?
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People are under you
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How did the Ming decline
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There was corruption, poverty, and peasant uprisings
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What was the shogunate of Japan?
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The Shogunate was the leader
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Who lead isolationism of Japan?
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Tokugawa Leyasu
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Who was Thomas Hobbes?
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He wrote Leviathan, and had the idea that humans exist in a primitive state of nature and consent government.
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Who was John Locke?
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Had the idea of natural rights: life, liberty, and property
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Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
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Had the idea of the separation of powers
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Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
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He thought that the government had a contact between the rulers and people
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What were the causes of the french revolution?
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Enlightenments wanted limits on the church, aristocracy, and monarchy: there was too much spending on wars, bad harvests caused a bad economy (which caused people to starve)
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What was the storming of Bastille?
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It happened on July 14th, 1789, and peasants took land.
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Who took over France in 1799?
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Napoleon Bonapart
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What did the Congress of Vienna do?
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It restored old monarchs and strengthened France
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What are some results of Industrialization? (Think family life!)
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Birth rates drop because the death rate drops, children are seen less as workers, and infant deaths drop largely
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What is Karl Marx credited for?
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He created Marxism, which leads to communism.
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What are the names for South and North Korea?
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South=Republic of Korea
North= People's Republic of Korea |
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What party is Mexico ruled by for most of its life?
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PRI: Party of Industrialized Revolution
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Why did the Ottoman Empire decline? What is the Ottoman Empire eventually called?
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There were weak rulers and less trade going through, it is called the "Sick Man of Europe".
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What was Japan's major weakness in general?
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There is no recourses?
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What lead to WWI?
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There was the assassination of the Archduke; Austria Hungry declares war, which causes all of its Allies to declare war, and so on and so forth.
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How does the US enter the war? What event causes this?
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The sinking of the Lusitania: a passenger ship
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What is Fascism?
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Nationalism and Loyalty to the state
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What causes WWII?
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Agression by Germany, Italy, and Japan, Nationalism, Weakness of the League of Nations, and heavy debts placed on Germany
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What is NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty organization: it was a pact between Canada, US, and Western Europe
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What was the Warsaw pact?
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It was the USSR and territories of the USSR
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What was the International Criminal court?
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Crimes against humanity and war crimes are tried here.
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