Exam 1 Chapters 1-3

Front 1

what is "big history"?

Back 1

"History of everything"

Front 2

how long has there been our universe?

Back 2

13.7 billion years

Front 3

how much percent of total mass in the universe is invisible?

Back 3

90%

Front 4

when did the first stars light?

Back 4

1-2 billion years after the big bang

Front 5

how old is the planet?

Back 5

4.7 billion years

Front 6

how long after did life follow?

Back 6

3 billion years

Front 7

when did the human species appear

Back 7

250,000 years ago

Front 8

world history movement

Back 8

explosion about new knowledge about the histories of Asia, Africa, and Pre-Columbian America erupted from research of scholars around the world..reflected in college and high school curricula

Front 9

what are the three C's of world history?

Back 9

change, comparison, and connection

Front 10

paleolithic

Back 10

old stone age

Front 11

neolithic

Back 11

new stone age

Front 12

human life was exclusive to where for the first 150,000 years?

Back 12

Africa

Front 13

Blombos Cave

Back 13

south Africa, workshop for the processing of ochre-150,000 yrs ago

Front 14

what was the migration pattern 45,000 years ago?

Back 14

Africa> Middle East > Europe> Asia

Front 15

Venus Figurines

Back 15

female form, exaggerated breasts, butt, hips, stomaches

Front 16

where was the first use of boats

Back 16

Indonesia

Front 17

dreamtime

Back 17

Australian aboriginal outlook on world/mythologies

links current inhabitants intimately with particular places and timeless events in the past

Front 18

when where the first migrations into the Americas?

Back 18

30,000-15,000 years ago

Front 19

clovis point

Back 19

first clearly defined and widespread cultural traditions- abruptly dissipated

Front 20

paleolithic bands

Back 20

moved frequently in regular patterns to exploit resources of wild plants and animals

Front 21

females during paleolithic?

Back 21

bulk of family income

Front 22

why is the paleolithic people the "original/affluent society"?

Back 22

they wanted and needed so little

Front 23

micro-blades

Back 23

smaller and more refined spear points, arrowheads, knives, and scrapers

Front 24

gobelki tepe

Back 24

11,600 years ago- probably ceremonial site, little evidence of human inhabitants

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neolithic revolution

Back 25

deliberate cultivation of particular plants as well as taming and breeding of certain animals

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domestication

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taming and changing of nature to benefit humankind

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intensification

Back 27

getting more for less

Front 28

broad-spectrum diet

Back 28

learned to make use of large number of plants to hunt and eat both small and large animals

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horriculture

Back 29

hoe based agriculture

Front 30

where was the first place to experience agricultural revolution?

Back 30

fertile crescent

Front 31

catalhuyuk

Back 31

early agricultural village-southern turkey

Front 32

cheifdoms

Back 32

inherited positions of power and privilege

seldom use of power for obedience

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norte chico

Back 33

smaller than Mesopotamia, less evidence of economic specialization, fishing based economy

MAIZE

Front 34

quipo

Back 34

series of knotted chord, possible way of early writting

Front 35

Indus valley

Back 35

little indication of political hierarchy,

Front 36

oxus civilization

Back 36

22,000BCE- residential compounds, artisan workshops, temples, surrounded by defensive walls.

Front 37

Olmec

Back 37

1200BCE- gulf of Mexico, agricultural economy, competing chiefdoms,

Front 38

Uruk

Back 38

in city's center- stepped pyramid, ziggurat

Front 39

Mohejo Daro

Back 39

40,000 people, large, richly built houses, complex sewage system

Front 40

Teotihuacan

Back 40

central valley of Mexico-200,000 people

Front 41

what did writing serve as in early civilization?

Back 41

a form of accounting

Front 42

what did literacy define?

Back 42

elite status and privilege

Front 43

Mesopotamian outlook

Back 43

violent environment, disorderly world,

Front 44

egypts outlook

Back 44

more stable, predictable, and beneficent of the environment

Front 45

what was the most thoroughly urbanized society of ancient times?

Back 45

MESOPOTAMIA

Front 46

by 2400BCE, what happened to the power of the Pharaoh?

Back 46

it had dmininished

Front 47

Cuneiform

Back 47

form of early writing, basis for Greek and Latin

Front 48

Egypt had large influence where?

Back 48

in the Mediterranean basin

Front 49

what happened to Egypt by 1500BCE?

Back 49

it had become an imperial state bridging Africa and Asia

Front 50

Empire

Back 50

state, political systems that exercise coercive power

Front 51

Persian emprie

Back 51

-500BCE- constructed imperial system thatdrew on previous examples

-reached from Egypt to India-35-50 million ppl

-elaborate kingship

-effective administrative system

-standardized coinage

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Greek Empire

Back 52

-2-3- million ppl

-hundreds of city-states and small settlements

-each city-state was independent, frequent conflict

-popular participation with political life..VOTING

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greco-persian wars

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-grew from patterns of expansion

-greek settlements came under persian control

-greeks held of persians and defeated them twice

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Alexander the Great

Back 54

-ten year expedition

-spread Greek culture

Front 55

what percentage of people were the Greeks in the Hellenistic kingdoms?

Back 55

10%

Front 56

what were the Roman values?

Back 56

rules of law, rights of citizens, absence of pretension, upright moral behavior, keeping ones word

Front 57

what did man have absolute control over in roman culture

Back 57

wife, kids, and slaves

Front 58

what did Shihuangdi impose?

Back 58

uniform system of weights, measures, currency, standardized cart lengths, and written form of Chinese

Front 59

what did both the Chinese and Roman empires invest in heavily?

Back 59

public works

Front 60

both absorbed foreign religious tradition

Back 60

china- Buddhism

Roman-Christianity

Front 61

china and Rome bot had what type of control over their vast empire?

Back 61

centralized