Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
PALEOLITHIC AGE VS. NEOLOTHIC REVOLUTION
|
PALEOLOTHIC AGE- NOMADS, HUNT. & GATH. FOR FOOD
NEOLOTHIC REVOLUTION- RIVER VALLEYS [CHINA INVENTIONS: ACUPUNCTURE, ANESTHETICS, GUNPOWDER, BLOCK PRINTING, RUDDER, COMPASS] |
|
|
MAYANS AND WEST AFRICA
|
MAYA- TEMPLES, PALACES, MATH, ASTRONOMY, CALENDAR
AFRICA- SALT&GOLD TRADE ROUTES MALI & GHANA & SONGHAI KINGDOMS |
|
|
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS
|
SOCRATES- SOCRATIC METHOD "WHY?"
PLATO-STUDENT OF ARISTOTLE-STUDENT OF PERICLES- DEOMCRACY PYTHAGORAS- PYTHAGORAN THEOREM HIPPOCRATES- FATHER OF MEDICINE |
|
|
GREEK ACCOMPLISHMENTS
|
DEMOCRACY, ARCHITECTURE, MYTHOLOGY, OLYMPIC GAMES, COLLUMNS & PILLARS [PARTHENON]
|
|
|
ROMAN ACCOMPLISMENTS
|
ROADS, BRIDGES, AQUEDUCTS, ARCHES, [COLLOSSEUM]
|
|
|
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
|
JUSTINIANS CODE
EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH CULUTRE SHARING W. RUSSIA PRESERVED GREEK AND ROMAN CULT. |
|
|
GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM
|
ALGEBRA, MAGNET NEEDLE, COMPASS, ASTROLABE, PRESERVED GREEK ROMAN & BYZANTINE CULUTRE, DURING CRUSADES EUROPE GOT IDEAS
|
|
|
MIDIEVAL AGES OF EUROPE
|
KING
LORD PRIESTS KNIGHTS SERFS **RIGID** BLACK DEATH KILLED 33% OF EUROPEANS |
|
|
RENAISSANCE
|
FIRST IN ITALY BECAUSE OF CENTRAL LOCATION AND ROMAN EMPIRE HISTORY
PEOPLE: LEONARDO DA VINCI-MONA LISA MICHELANGELO- DAVID RAPHAEL MACHIAVELLI- THE PRINCE BOOK |
|
|
PROTESTANT REFORMATION
|
INDULGENCES- SELLING FORGIVENESS
SIMONY- SELLING CHURCH JOBS NEPOTISM- RELATIVES CHURCH JOBS MARTIN LUTHER- LUTHERAN CHURCH JOHN CALIVIN-CALIVINIST CHURCH HENRY VII- CHURCH OF ENGLAND |
|
|
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
|
NICOLAUS CPERNICUS- HELIOCENTRIC THEORY SUN CENTER OF UNIVERSE
GALILEO- TELESCOPE GRAVITY ISAAC NEWTON- GRAVITY PHYSICS CALCULUS GUTENBERG- PRINTING PRESS **LED TO DECREASE IN ROMAN CHURCH BY CONTRADICTING THEIR IDEAS |
|
|
AGE OF EXPLORATION
|
COLUMBUS- SPAIN TO NEW WORLD
MAGELLAN- SPAIN AND CIRCUMNAVIGATED WORLD DA GAMA- PORTUGAL AND SAILED TIP OF AFRICA |
|
|
AGRICULATURAL REVOLUTION
|
SEED DRILL, STEEL PLOW
INCREASED FOOD- HEALTHIER PEOPLE ENCLOSURE MOVEMENT- PUBLIC LANDS FENCED OFF AND PEASANTS OUT OF WORK FREE TO BE WORKERS |
|
|
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
|
POOR UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS
FORCED TO WORK LONG HOURS FOR LITTLE PAY OVERCROWDING CITIES **MACHINES REPLACE AND LARGE UNEMPLOYMENT |
|
|
THE ENLIGHTMENT
|
AGE OF REASON
HATED ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES INFLUECED SCIENTIFIC & FRENCH REVOLUTION |
|
|
CAUSES OF FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
POLITICAL CAUSES:
*ABSOLUTE RULER LOUIS XVI 1ST ESTATE- CLERGY 1% 2ND ESTATE- NOBLES 2% 3RD ESTATE- MIDDLE CLASS & PEASANTS 97% **ESTATES GENERAL.. OUTVOTED 2:1 EACH TIME ECONOMIC CAUSES: HIGH TAXES SOCIAL CAUSES: FIRST AND SECOND DIDNT PAY TAXES, OWNED LAND, AND LIVED BETTER THAN 3RD ESTATE |
|
|
FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY- THIRD ESTATE
TOOK TENNIS COURT OATH TO PLEDGE TO GET RIGHTS DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CONSTITUTION OF 1791 LOUIS XVI FLED ACUSED OF TREASON .. WENT TO GUILLOTINE ROBESPIERRE LEADES REIGN OF TERROR ANG GUILLOTINES ALLL AGAINST HIM. REPLACED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE |
|
|
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
|
REPLACES ROBESPIERRE
VICTORIES DOMINATING EUROPE [NAPOLEONIC CODE] BROUGHT ORDER AND SABILITY DEFEATED IN RUSSIAS HARSH CLIMATE |
|
|
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
|
REDRAW EUROPE
LEGITMACY-RESTORING OVERTHROWN LEADERS COMPENSATION- AWARDING NATIONS AGAINST NAPOLEON |
|
|
UNIFICATIONS
|
GERMAN- OTTO VON BISMARCK USING BLOOD AND IRON USING NATIONALISM
ITALY- USING NATIONALIST GARIBALDI-SWORD MAZZINI-SPIRIT CAVOUR- BRAIN |
|
|
AFRICAN IMPERIALISM
|
WANTING TO MAKE MONEY OFF NATIONS
'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN' TO HELP UNCIVILIZED AFRICANS |
|
|
WWI
|
NATIONALSIM, IMPERIALISM FIGHTING OVER AFRICA, MILITARISM ,AND ALLIENCES CAUSED
***ASSASSINATION OF AUSTRIAN FRANCIS FERDINAND*** TRIPLE ALLIANCE: GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, OTTOMAN EMPIRE TRIPLE ENTENTE- FRNACE, GREAT BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA [U.S. REPLACED RUSSIA] TREATY OF VERSAILLES BLAMED GERMANY TO PAY REPERATIONS |
|
|
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
|
NICHOLAS II SENT TROOPS WITHOUT WEAPONS WHICH LED TO HUGE LOSSES
VLADMIMIR LENIN AND BOLSHEVIKS[COMMUNISTS] PROMISTED "PEACE LAND AND BREAD" |
|
|
COLD WAR
|
IRON CURTAIN SEPARATED
CONTAINMENT-KEEP FROM SPREADING TRUMAN DOCTRINE/MARSHALL PLAN NATO-WEST ALLIANCE WARSAW PACT- EAST ALLIANCE ARMS RACE- BUILDING OF WEAPONS DETENTE- EASING OF TENSIONS CONTAINMENT EX: KOREAN WAR BAY OF PIGS INVASION CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS VIETNAM WAR RESULT OF END OF COLD WAR: GERMANY UNIFIES AND BERLIN WALL TORE DOWN COMMUNISM ENDS AFTER GORBACHEVS POLICIES OF GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA |
|
|
INDIA
|
MOHANDAS GANDHI UNIFIES USING CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE, SALT MARCH, NON VIOLENCE, BOYCOTTS, FASTING
BRITISH EASTY INDIA COMPANY AMRISTAR MASSACRE WINS VS. BRITAIN PROBLEMS: HINDU INDIANS VS. MUSLIM PAKISTANIS |
|
|
ARAB-ISREALI CONFLICT
|
UN ESTABLISHES ISREAL FOR JEWS AFTER WWII
DISPUTE OVE RLAND AND RELIGION IN ISREAL |
|
|
NOTHERN IRELAND CONLICT
|
GREAT BRITAIN CONTROLLED.. THEN SPLIT INTO NORTHERN IRELAND[PROTESTANTS CONTROL BY BRITAIN] AND IRELAND[INDEPENDENT CATHOLICS].
|
|
|
PERSIAN GULF WAR
|
SADDAM HUSSEIN OF IRAQ INVADES KUWAIT TO CONQUER OIL
U.S. INVIADES KUWAIT TO REMOVE IRAQI AND KEEP OIL PRICE LOW |
|
|
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
|
THE HOLOCAUST
STALIN'S FAMINE IN SOVIET UNION POL POT IN CAMBODIA HUTU VS. TUTSI IN RWANDA SERBS VS. MUSLIMS IN BOSNIA |
|
|
LATIN AMERICA
|
CONQUISTADOR
VICEORY ENCOMIENDA PENNINSULARES CREOLE MESTIZO MULLATO TOUSAINT L'OVERTURE JOSE SAN MARTIN MUGEL HIDAGO ****SIMON NOLIVAR**** THE LIBERATOR FIGHT AGAINST SPANISH CONTORL OF LATIN AMERICA |
|
|
SOUTH AFRICA
|
NELSON MANDELA
BRITAIN GAINED CONTROL OF SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE DUTCH. SET UP AN APARTHEID [SEPARATENESS] TO LEGALLY DISCRIMATE AGAINST NON-WHITES. ANC [AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] LED MY NELSON MANDELA FOUGHT TO END APARTHEID. HE WAS IN JAIL FOR 27 YEARS. THEN HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT |
