ancient stuff: 8000 BCE to 600 CE Flashcards
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Paleolithic era lasted for how much of human history?
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95%
2
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Intesification
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more resources for less work
3
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Paleolithic era
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ice age
4
Q
tribe sizes
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about 20
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Paleolithic farming
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no farming, hunting and gathering
6
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Neolithic
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agricultural revolution
7
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farming in Neolithic
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planting things in unnatural places
domestication
8
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neolithic era social structure
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start of gender roles
specialization
1 pastoralist/agriculturist 2hunter
9
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When emergence of civilizations?
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5,000 BC
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7 qualties of a civilization?
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religion food social structure government writing culture technology
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Mesopotamia government
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hammurabi’s code
strong military
taxes
city states
12
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Egypt government
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pharao
monarchy
slaves
13
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Egypt women
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powerful
14
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Meso. weapons
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axes, clubs, swords, METAL
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egypt.
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bow and arrow
16
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meso writing
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cuneiform
to keep track of farming
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egypt writng
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heliographs
for royalty
18
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hinduism
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no set belief/founder
evolve from nature warship
19
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vedas
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veo=knowledge, latin
20
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upanishaads
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interpretations
21
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buddhism
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many forms
1 common: emphasis on THIS life
YOLO
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Thervada/hinayana
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lesser vehicle
anybody enlighten
sri lanka, cambodia, thai, laos
23
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mahayana
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buddha for compassion
china, korea
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sumerian civilization
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mesopotamia
ziggurats
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babylonians
hammurabi code
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Hittites
major military power
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Persian empires
the later mesopotamia
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pheonicians
established powerful naval city-states along mediterranean
| phonetic alphabet
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hebrews
judaism (mediterranean)
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Queen Hatshepsut
first known female ruler EVER
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khyber pass
indus pass into the world
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aryan impact
buddhism
| caste system
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shang dynasty
limited contact
militaristic
middle kingdom
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What was NOT a characteristic of early civilizations?
Writing
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gupta dynasty
golden age
| concepts of pi and zero, decimal system
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qin dynasty
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short
great wall
legalism
standardize measurements, laws, currencies, measure
writing
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han dynasty
buddhism spread
civil service system
invent paper
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Greece
collison of polis/city-states
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persian wars
greek city states vs persia
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alexander divided what 3 empires
antigonic (greece and macedon), ptolematic Egypt, seleucid (bacteria and anatolia)
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first triumvirate
pompey, crassus and caesar
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thales
astronomy
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democratus
matter/atoms
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pythagorus
math
45
hipocretes
Dr
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herodotus
historian
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plato
gove+ethics
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aristtole
logic, scince
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who built "the temple" in israel?
solomon
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minoans
300bc
| foundation of greek
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polytheism impact
early civilizations
rituals
lead to priest class=caste systems
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hinduism impact
the religion itself is a caste system
indian social strucutre
basis of later Buddhism
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buddhism impact
appealed to lower classes of hindist
anyone anywhere
ashoka, maruyan emperor
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judaism impact
spawned other monotheistic religions such as christianity and Islam
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christianity impact
lower classes/women
| most inflluential in mediterranean basin
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For what period would archaeologists first begin to find permanent human settlements?
Neolithic
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Identify the statement that best begins an explanation of the Neolithic Revolution.
settling in Middle East
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. Which of the following civilizations shares the most in common with the Harappan civilization found in the Indus River Valley?
A. The Mogul Empire in India
B. The Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan
C. The Olmec civilization in Mesoamerica D. The Athenian city-state in ancient Greece
C
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What statement accurately compares the government of the Han
dynasty with that of the Roman Republic?
A. Power in the Han dynasty was concentrated in a centralized bureaucracy dominated by Confucian scholars while power in the Roman Republic was shared among the major landowning families of Rome.
B. Power in the Han dynasty rested solely with the emperor while in Rome all citizens were able to express their opinions and influence government.
C. Power in the Han dynasty was concentrated in a centralized bureaucracy dominated by Confucian scholars while in the Roman Republic all citizens shared power in governmental decisions.
D. Power in the Han dynasty rested in the hands of the military generals and their successors, who had helped defeat the previ- ous Qin dynasty, while power in the Roman Republic rested in the hands of legion commanders and provincial governors.
D
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14. What statement offers the most complete analysis of the decline of the Han dynasty?
A. Migrations of Germanic people from the north; lack of citizen participation in government; unemployment due to excessive numbers of slaves.
B. Attacks by militarily superior horse-mounted steppe tribesmen equipped with strong bows; regional political rivalries taking advantage of a weak central government; diseases/plagues dev- astating the populations of major cities.
C. Attacks by militarily superior horse-mounted steppe tribesmen equipped with strong bows; internal revolts due to increased taxes and weakening central authority; weak emperors and cor- rupt bureaucracy.
c
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16. In the eighth century CE, identify the city that became the center of trade along the Silk Road
baghdad
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What statement best explains the adoption of the Arabic language across North Africa?
A. The retreat of the Roman Empire allowed people to return to their native language.
B. The Islamic conquest destroyed the native population living in this region.
C. The Islamic conquest of the region resulted in many conver- sions to Islam and the adoption of Islamic customs.
D. The defeat of the Byzantine Empire convinced many inhabit- ants of the superiority of Arabic culture.
c
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Identify the major source of instability across Asia and Europe dur- ing the fourteenth century.
A. Steppe tribesmen
B. The Black Death
C. The Islamic caliph
D. Famine
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black death
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What statement explains the bureaucratic view of Buddhism during the Tang dynasty?
Buddhism was a threat to Confucianism
