Globsl test 1 Flashcards by Jennifer Cabezas

How do we study the past?

By using Primary nd Secondary Sources

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What are the two items that historians analyze

Primary and Secondary sources

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Primary Source

an item (picture, journal entry, or court document) that is solely from one of the party’s involved

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Secondary Source

an item that is composed from somebody else who was not involved.

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The study of humans, past, present

Anthropology

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“What is history but a fable agreed upon.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

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how do we know about the past

People always kept records about their cultures and others

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The study of humans, past, and present

Anthropology

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Often related to the Old Stone age

Paleolithic Period

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Paleolithic Period

time period of human ancestors
from around 2 million BCE to 9,000 BCE
they were nomadic
lived in small groups
hunters gatherers
People were dependent entirely on their environment for survival

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Things From this Paleolithic time period

First sign of religion
first sign of people burying their dead
controlled fire
earliest sign of people building boats to travel across water

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Belief that spirits and forces live within animals, objects, or dreams

Animism

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Framing marks the period known as

The Neolithic Period

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Neolithic Period

The period of time during which the introduction of agriculture led people to transition from nomadic to settled life.

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A.R.C.s stands for

Ancient River Civilizations

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4 Main A.R.C.s

Sumer, Early Egypt, Indus, Shang

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Along the Tigris and Euphrates River
In the Middle East

Sumer

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Along the Nile River

Early Egypt

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Mainly in modern day Pakistan + India, along the Indus River and other rivers in the area.

Indus

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Along the Yellow River Huang, In CHina

Shang

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What is in common between all 4 ARCs (8)

social structure
water sources
farmland
property
jobs
economy
tools/tech
ruler

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Between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

Mesopotamia

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Greek work meaning middle of rivers

Mesopotamia

What was the benefits of being between 2 rivers

Agriculture thriving, surplus of food

Assyria vs Babylon

military dynasty merchants and agriculture Animism Supreme God Master engineer Code of Hammurabi

Mesopotamia contributions

Palaces, recordkeeping/ writing, cuneiform, Epic of Gilgamesh, math, the bronze age

Public works of Mesopotamia

Ziggurats (pyramid temples) Irrigation Canals (advanced technology)

Society and Law in Maesopotamia

priests ran society and acted as judges

Code of Hammurabi

harsh law relationship to Gods relationship between classes status of woman

The Babylon Map of the World

700-500 BCE likely from Southern Iraq

What is the Babylonian map of the world of

The Mesopotamian World

What was the Babylonian Map done in

cuneiform

What is above the map

A description of the different regions and geographic features. It shows the physical world such as the location of cities and canals. It also show's the mythological world such as the island where "the sun is hidden and nothing can be seen". and the island that is "beyond the flight of birds"

Downfall of Mesopotamia

Successors to Sumeria Amorites or old Babylonians Hittites Assyrians Chaldees or new Babylonians

Decline of Mesopotamia in World History

ceased to be important after Persian conquest largely caused by long-term environment damage, decline in food supply

Egypts geography

centered around the Nile RIver

the Nile floods

at the same time each year

The Nile flows

North thus Lower Egypt is to the North

Egypt is protected by deserts

to the east and west

Also called Pyramid Age ruling pharaohs built tombs that would last for eternity building usually started when they took the throne

The Old Kingdom

Development of hieroglyphics (Old Kingdom)

probably based on sumerian script pictographic and Alphabetic elements

Old Kingdom Government

Upper &Lower Egypt united Pharaohs have strong central authority and absolute power

Vizier

was the decline of the Old kingdom

Mesopotamia made a map

shows land, location, names of places

Middle Kingdom

Pharaohs restore prosperity and stability

(Middle kingdom) Trades with _________ to the SOuth increases

Nubians

What Kingdom is it that the cultures of two people begin to mix

Middle Kingdom

Eventually _________the ________ army occupies____________

Egyptian army, Nubia

Decline of the Middle Kingdom

Invaded by the Hyksos from Western Asia

Who adopts Egyptian customs and beliefs

Hyksos

The New Kingdom

large empire reaches to the Euphrates River more contact with other civilizations

(new Kingdom) first known _________ signed with the ______________

Peace treaty/ Hititties

Female pharaoh who encouraged trade

Hatshepsut

Very powerful and ruled for 67 years defeated Hitities

Ramses II

Famous tomb

King Tut

the 1st monotheist and husband of Nefertiti

Akhenaton/ Amonhotep IV

What was the decline of the New Kingdom

power declines after Ramses II, a succession of invaders conquer Egypt ( Sea people, Hyksos, Persians, & Greeks)