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What 3 divisions is history divided into?

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Nations
Time periods
Specialized topics- depression. World War II, holocaust

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What is history?

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Study of past, political. And economic events as well as cultural and social conditions

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Causality

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The reasons something happens

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Conflict

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Opposition or clashes

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Bias

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Prejudice toward or against something

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Interdependence

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2 things rely on each other

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Identity

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Being a particular thing or person or group

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Nation-state

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Unified

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Herodotus

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Greek historian, father of history

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Thucydides

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Wrote about peloponnesian war between Athens and sparta

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Livy

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Roman historian, wrote founding of the city

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Eusebius

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Wrote ecclesiastical history- showing gods control of hums events

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Bede

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Wrote ecclesiastical history of English nation during Middle Ages.

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Iben khaldun

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Arab historian, wrote universal history

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Edward gibbon

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Blamed Christianity for fall of Roman Empire. British scholar

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Leopold Von ranke

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Father of modern history

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What is periodization?

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Practice of dividing history into blocks of time. 
Date
Cultural advances
Changes
Geography
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Social history

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Everyday people, looking through their eyes, trends (clothing a, hair styles, cars, etc)

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Archeology

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Looking at remains to find out about cultures

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Art history

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Looking at changes in art. Changes in society causes changes in art

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Big history

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Beginning to future

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Chronology

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Looking at things in order

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Cultural history

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Study of culture in the past. Studying incas

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Diplomatic history

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Looking at international relations. Our relationship with Iraq today’s different than it was 50 years ago

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Economic history
Looking at the history of economies in the past
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Military history
Study of wars
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Naval history
Study of wars in the water
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Paleography
Study of ancient texts. Dead Sea scrolls
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Political history
Study of politics
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Psychohistory
Study of psychological motivations. Hitlers motives for pure race caused world war II
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Historiography of science
As science developed over time. structure and development. Inventions
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World history
History of the world from a global perspective. Sticking to the facts
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Lower Paleolithic period- crude tools Upper Paleolithic period- better tools, organized groups, art Neolithic- animals, food production,family and religion, build houses, fires, make cloth (tribes)
Prehistory times- before writing
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What are ancient civilizations?
Cultures that developed to a greater degree and considered advanced
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What were some ancient civilizations and their accomplishments?
Egypt- pyramids, solar calendar, hieroglyphics, mummies, papyrus, math Sumerians- wheel, irrigation (water to your fields), dikes (dikes or pipes for irrigation), boats Babylonians- code of Hammurabi (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth) Assyrians- aggressive, warlike, horse drawn chariots Hebrews (Israelites)- monotheism, 10 commandments Minoans- writing system, luxurious systems Mycenaeans- writing Phoenicians- sea traders, traveled by night, first alphabet, purple dye, glass, metals India- caste system, Hinduism, concept of 0 China- Great Wall, Silk Road, pictograph writing, terrace farming for rice Persians (Iran) Greece- Greek alphabet, Olympics, city state governments, Athens (education, peace, poetry, democracy), Sparta (militaristic), medicine, astronomy, gods and goddesses, Alexander the Great- from Greece, conquered large pieces of land and ideas of Greece spread China- considered oldest, uninterrupted civilization in world, studied nature and weather, education, family. Invented gunpowder, compass, paper, printing, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism Japan- followed china, Buddhism Africa- iron, trading (influences from other people's), camels Vikings- knowledgeable of sea Saracenic- Islamic, sciences Byzantines- art and preservation of Greek and roam achievements (architecture), Christians Ghana- expanded to gain control of trade, salt (used for preservatives) and gold fields, built along trade routes, iron ore to make weapons and good farm tools Tang Dynasty- capital most populated, Buddhism, china divided into north and south, block printing (like stamps) - beginning of printing press, science (astronomy), ceramics, medicine

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