Global Final review Flashcards
What was Ancient Egypt’s Geography
Flooding –> silt —> fertal soil
Travel/trade
Sahara dessert
What was Mesopatiana’s Geography
-Fertile crescent
- Land between two rivers
- Plains - walled city’s
What were Mesopatiana’s Contributions
- Cuneiform - stylus - clay tablets
- Wheels
- Irrigation systems
- Clay bricks
- Social classes
- Trade
- Algebra, geometry, calendar
Where was Indus river valley located
India
what was Indus river valley Geography
Monsoons
what was Indus river valley Religion
- Polytheistic
- Animal/nature gods
what was Indus river valleys Government
- Mohenjo-Daro
- Harappa
-Well planed cities - Central government
what were Indus river valley contributions
- Written language (not deciphered yet)
- Indoor plumbing
- Clay bricks
- Cpttpm
- trade
What was China’s Geogrpahy
- Huang He - Yellow RIver - “river of sorrows”
- Middle kingdom
- Ethocentrism
What was China’s religion
- Many gods / spirits in nature
- Priests
- Oracle bones
What was China’s Government
- Dynasty
- Shang Dynasty is first dynasty
- Mandate of heaven
What were China’s Conreibutions
- Photographs
- Wooden cities
- Social classes (nobles and warriors )
What was the first set of written Laws
The code of Hammurabi
Bureaucracy
A system for managing government through department that are run by appointed officials
What dynasty did Emperor Shi Huangdi rule
Quin Dynasty
Who did this?
- United sections of china
- Unified country with a set of measurments
- Ruthless leader –> fallowed legalism
- Persicuted Confucian scholars to have power
- Begain building the great wall of china
Had a tomb built for himself with life-size terracotta statues of his army
Emperor Shi Huangdi
Direct Democracy
Citizens take a direct role in the day to day running of the government, for example voting for laws
Hellenistic
Greek Philosophy, Plays, Art, Science, Math and more contributions
Socrates
A Greek philosopher with a questioning method called “Socratic method”
Plato
A Greek philosopher who wrote about government. This writing was called “the republic”
Aristotle
A Greek philosopher who created the idea that “people learn through reason.”
What type of art was this:
- Columns; balance & simplicity; parthinon
- Human body shown in its most perfect form
Greek art
What ruled Rome
The senate
Who established the Roman empire also known as the pax Romana
Octavian (Augustus)