1st Semester Flashcards
5 characteristics of civilization
Complex institutions Advanced technology Advanced cities Record keeping Specialized workers
Egyptian started near ________
Nile river
Mesopotamian started near
Tigris and Euphrates river
Harrapan started near
Indus and Ganges river
Chinese started near
Yellow and Yangtze River
Why did civilization began near rivers
Transportation, foods, water source, protection, communication
Environmental challenges early civilizations faced
Droughts, flooding, famine
Followed Hammurabi’s code
Mesopotamians
Punishments for the code of Hammurabi
An eye for an eye
Geography of Greece
Mountainous and surrounded by water
Famous poet: Odyssey and Iliad
Homer
Greek architecture
Columns
Socrates
Socratic method
Plato
Republic
Aristotle
Scientific method
Persian
Persia vs. Greece
Peloponnesian
Athens vs. Sparta
Conquered by Alex the great
Greece, Persia, Egypt, India
Cultural diffusion
The Silk Road and Hellenism
Rome’s government
Republic
Why were roads and aqueduct s important to Roman Empire
Transportation
Cause the fall of Rome
Germanic tribes
Eastern Roman Empire
Byzantine empire
Greatest emperor of Byzantine
Constantine
6.5 million deaths
Loss of religion
Feudalism
Plague
Renaissance
Re birth of art and learning
Inspired Renaissance
Greek and roman times
Humanism
Focusing on humans instead of God
Sistine chapel
Michelangelo
School of Athens
Raphael
Last supper
Da Vinci
Pieta
Michelangelo
Mona Lisa
Da Vinci
David
Michelangelo
Perspective
3D
Secular
Concerned with worldly
Vernacular
Everyday language
Machiavelli
The Prince: be fear than loved
Patrons
Paid for art work
Printing press
Gutenberg
Prehistoric
Before written record