GLOBAL FINAL TEST REVIEW Flashcards
Neolithic revolution
Transition from hunting and gathering to farming
ethnocentrism
belief in the superiority of ones own ethnic group
culture
the study of ones way of life
Interdependence
being mutually dependent
ex. no trade with other civilizations, only trading with your civilization
social sciences
heavily influenced by human geography
cultural
the spread of customs, ideas and beliefs
Judaism
-Monotheistic
- Torah( OLD TESTAMENT)
- moral and ethical code is found in the ten commandments
Christianity
-Monotheistic
-Bible(NEW TESTAMENT)
- Moral and ethical code in found in the ten commandments
Islam
- Monotheistic
- Abraham is the father
- moral and ethical code is found in the 5 pillars
Confucianism
- Monothistic
- believ abraham is the father
- not a faith as much as a philosophy, promotes a stable society by everybody knowing their role and duty in society
- ruler to subject
-father to son
-older brother to younger brother - husband to wife
- friend to friend
Phileopity ( ancestor worship )
Legalism
- CHIN DYNASTY
- brutal, strict , rigid laws and punishments , practicing legalistic principles that call for a clear and rigid system of laws that is enforced by punishment
Daoism
living in tune and alignment with nature and focusing on oneself rather than society
Hinduism
-POLYTHEISTIC
- faiths developed in india turning into silk roads, ideas, religion , sickness, trade routes
- associated with the caste system a rigid social structure which has undermined opportunity and established order and stability
Buddhism
-India 590 BCE
- Hinduism minus rigid caste system , both support and believe in karma and dharma as well as reincarnation
Athens
-Greece
- recognized the Mediterranean, absent of any major river valleys
- a civilization developed completely on water, city states
- significant because they are the first to develop a democracy with limited participation, only adult male citizens were aloud to join
Rome
-Mediterranean
- growth through conquest, united through construction of rode network and system still here today
- 12 tables were legal codes designed to promote and establish stability
Byzantine empire
-Eastern Roman Empire
-Eastern Roman Empire splits then turns into byzantine empire
- primary difference between byzantine and Christianity is the head of the church , in Christianity it is the pope and in the byzantine empire it is the emperor
China dynasties
- China
- the great wall
- restores order in the after math of the time of trouble by practicing legalism and by building the great wall
Islamic empires
- trade routes
- religious tolerance
India empires
-India
-tolerance