Period 1 And 2 Review

Front 1

Early Human Migrations

Back 1

The Palaeolithic Era/East Africa

Front 2

Slash and Burn

Back 2

expansions of people into new regions as the fertility of previous sites declined

Front 3

Jericho and Catal Huyuk

Back 3

Earliest settlement sites

Front 4

Homo sapiens

Back 4

consciously thinking men

Front 5

Australopithecines

Back 5

earliest hominids in east Africa

Front 6

Sumer

Back 6

world's earliest city

Front 7

Primary functions of the first city states

Back 7

tax collection, building palaces, ziggurats (temples), irrigation systems, and defensive walls

Front 8

Lex talionis

Back 8

Legal code made by king Hammurabi (punishment tied closely by offenses)

Front 9

Assyrian Empire

Back 9

used weapons, chariots, and professional soldiers to overpower neighboring cities

Front 10

Patriarchal Society

Back 10

Men dominance of public and home life

Front 11

Menes

Back 11

unified Egypt into one large state

Front 12

Papyrus

Back 12

paper-like, used for writing hieroglyphs

Front 13

Amon and Re

Back 13

sun gods important because of the polytheism in Egypt

Front 14

Harappan society

Back 14

earliest known urban society in india

Front 15

Aryans

Back 15

nomadic and pastoral peoples that created agricultural communities throughout northern India

Front 16

Varna

Back 16

social distinctions/classes

Front 17

Four main varnas

Back 17

1.Brahmins (priests)

2. Kshatriyas (warriors and aristocrats)

3. Vaiashyas (cultivators,artisans, and merchants)

4. Shudras (peasants and serfs)

Front 18

Jati

Back 18

Subcastes tied to occupation

Front 19

Lawbook of Manu

Back 19

describes rules for proper moral behavior and social relationships

Front 20

Chinese early large regional states

Back 20

Xia, Shang, Zhou

Front 21

Shang Dynasty

Back 21

bronze metallurgy

horses

chariots

wheeled vehicles

`Ao and Yin

Front 22

Zhou Dynasty

Back 22

ability to organize allies

Mandate of Heaven

Decentralized administration

attacked by nomadic people from the west

Front 23

Veneration of Ancestors

Back 23

institution that linked departed generations to the living

Front 24

Quin dynasty

Back 24

destroyed nonutelitarian texts due to the fear of independence of mind

Front 25

Maya

Back 25

occupied southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

Teotihuacan

Tikal- ceremonial center

Martial culture

Calendar

Front 26

Teotihuacan society

Back 26

theocracy

pyramids

pottery

obsidian tools

Front 27

Mochica

Back 27

early Andean regional states

Front 28

aboriginal peoples of Australia

Back 28

hunting and gathering until nineteenth and twentieth century

Front 29

Austronesian

Back 29

languages spoken by people in southeast Asia

Front 30

aboriginal people of New Guinea

Back 30

interacted with outsiders more than their Australian counterparts

Front 31

Settlers of Persia

Back 31

Indo european ethnic groups organized into clans

Front 32

Satrapies

Back 32

provinces under Darius creating a balance between central and local control

Front 33

The Persian Royal Road

Back 33

1600 miles from Aegan sea to Iran

Front 34

Magi and gathas

Back 34

magi-priests

gathas- traditions written

Front 35

Quanats

Back 35

Large underground channels

Front 36

Period of Warring States

Back 36

warring states in china after the Zhou Dynasty

Front 37

Analects

Back 37

Confucius- written work of his teachings/sayings

Front 38

three important qualities in a superior individual JUNZI

Back 38

ren- courtesy

li- property

xiao- filial piety

Front 39

Daoism

Back 39

wuwei- withdrawal from the active world

dao- way of cosmos

LAOZI

Front 40

Legalism

Back 40

unified and calmed China

answer to chaos is harsh governance

Front 41

Chandragupta Maurya

Back 41

ruler of an indian kingdom

Front 42

Monsoon seasons

Back 42

winds from the southwest in the spring

northeast during the fall and winter

Front 43

Siddhartha Gautama

Back 43

founder of Buddhism

"the enlightened one"

Front 44

Four noble truths

Back 44

1. all life has suffering

2. desire is the cause of suffering

3. eliminating desire will end suffering

4. follow the noble eigthfold path

Front 45

Noble eightfold path

Back 45

right belief

right resolve

right speech

right behavior

right occupation

right effort

right contemplation

right meditation

Front 46

Minoan society

Back 46

greek society developed on Crete

Front 47

Mycenaean society

Back 47

greek society developed from indo european roots in the balkan peninsula

overthrew the minoans

fought a war with the city of Troy

Front 48

Polis

Back 48

greek City state

Front 49

Tyrant

Back 49

takes power by force rather than inheriting it

Front 50

Delian League

Back 50

formed to unite greeks against persians