MY WORLD HISTORY Flashcards
3 periods of Mesozoic eara-name them.
Triassic,
Jurassic,
and Cretaceous periods.
Name the three periods of Roman history?
Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC),
Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) ‘
Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.
How old is the Earth?
Earth is 4.5 billion years old
How old is the universe?
The universe is 13.8 billion years old
What and when was the Mesozoic Era?
The Mesozoic Era is the age of the dinosaurs and lasted almost 180 million years from approximately 250 to 65 million years ago.
Name the three traditional divisions of western history.
- classical antiquity, 8th century BC to 6th century AD
- the medieval period
- the modern period.
Palaeozoic
Paleozoic Era, also spelled Palaeozoic, major interval of geologic time that began 541 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years ago with the end-Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history.
Pre Cambrian
What was the Enlightenment?
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas about openness, investigation, and religious tolerance throughout Europe and the Americas
What are the four main eras?
PreCambrian
Palaeozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
What was the Enlightenment?
What was the Renaissance?
Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.
When and what was the Age of Enlightenment?
- Intellectual and philosophical movement during the 18th century. —Started 1687 with Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
- Based on idea that reason is the primary source of knowledge
When and what were the EARLY MIDDLE AGES?
- sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages
- lasting from the 5th century to the 10th century.
- They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.
- The period saw a continuation of trends evident since late classical antiquity, including population decline, especially in urban centres, a decline of trade, a small rise in global warming and increased migration.
When and what were the high middle ages?
- The High Middle Ages, lasted from around 1000 to 1250 CE.
- Key historical trends of the High Middle Ages include the rapidly increasing population of Europe
- increasing population brought about great social and political change
- By 1250, the robust population increase had greatly benefited the European economy, which reached levels that would not be seen again in some areas until the 19th century.
- That trend faltered during the Late Middle Ages because of a series of calamities, most notably the Black Death, but also numerous wars as well as economic stagnation.
When and what were the late middle ages?
The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 CE. Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death, reduced the population to around half of what it was before the calamities.[2] Along with depopulation came social unrest and endemic warfare. France and England experienced serious peasant uprisings, such as the Jacquerie and the Peasants’ Revolt, as well as over a century of intermittent conflict, the Hundred Years’ War. To add to the many problems of the period, the unity of the Catholic Church was temporarily shattered by the Western Schism. Collectively, those events are sometimes called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.[3]
When did life form on Earth?
3.5 billion years ago.
What does the term “Ancient Rome” mean?
Ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD,
When were the Middle Ages?
the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
When was the Triassic period?
The Triassic Period was the first period of the Mesozoic Era and occurred between 251 million and 199 million years ago.
It followed the great mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period and was a time when life outside of the oceans began to diversify
When was the Jurassic period?
The Jurassic spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period 201.3 million years agoto the beginning of the Cretaceous Period 145 Mya.
Cretaceous period - when and describe it.
The Cretaceous Period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic Era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic Period about 145.5 million years ago to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event dated at 65.5 million years ago.
Permian period
The Permian (/ˈpɜːr.mi.ən/ PUR-mee-ən)[2] is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous period 298.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
Who was Hannibal?
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal (/ˈhænɪbəl/; Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: Ḥannībaʿl; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Eons-terminology for the four divisions of them
Eons are divided into:
eras
periods
epochs
ages
Eons-name the four eons
Hadean
Archean
Proterozoic
Phanerozoic
Hadean
The Hadean Eon, named after the Greek god and ruler of the underworld Hades, is the oldest eon and dates from 4.5–4.0 billion years ago.This time represents Earth’s earliest history, during which the planet was characterized by a partially molten surface, volcanism, and asteroid impacts.
Archean
x
Proterozoic
x
Phanerozoic
x
Archean
The Archean Eon, which lasted from 4.0–2.5 billion years ago, is named after the Greek word for beginning. This eon represents the beginning of the rock record. Although there is current evidence that rocks and minerals existed during the Hadean Eon, the Archean has a much more robust rock and fossil record.
proterozoic
The Proterozoic Eon extended from 2.5 billion to 541 million years ago.
Many of the most exciting events in the history of the Earth and of life occurred during the Proterozoic — stable continents first appeared and began to accrete, a long process taking about a billion years. Also coming from this time are the first abundant fossils of living organisms, mostly bacteria and archaeans, but by about 1.8 billion years ago eukaryotic cells appear as fossils too.
phanerozoic
The Phanerozoic Eon[3] is the current geologic eon in the geologic time scale, and the one during which abundant animal and plant life has existed. It covers 541 million years to the present,[4]
What was the Cambrian Explosion?
An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals.
Some scientists now think that a small, perhaps temporary, increase in oxygen suddenly crossed an ecological threshold, enabling the emergence of predators. The rise of carnivory would have set off an evolutionary arms race that led to the burst of complex body types and behaviours that fill the oceans today
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big bang
earth formation
Earth eons
Human history
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When did H. sapeiens emerge?
Homo sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago - and reached behavioral modernity about 50,000 years ago.
When did the ape lineage, which would lead to Homo sapiens diverge fromthe lineage that wouldlead to chimpanzees and bonobos (closest lving relatives).
When was the Stone Age?
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years,[1] and ended between 8700 BCE and 2000 BCE ,[citation needed] with the advent of metalworking.[2]
What was the Bronze Age?
The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age Stone-Bronze-Iron system.
An ancient civilization is defined to be in the Bronze Age either by producing bronze by smelting its own copper and alloying with tin, arsenic, or other metals, or by trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere. Bronze itself is harder and more durable than other metals available at the time, allowing Bronze Age civilizations to gain a technological advantage.
When was the Iron Age?
the “Iron Age” begins locally when the production of iron or steel has been brought to the point where iron tools and weapons superior to their bronze equivalents become widespread.
The fall of constantiople
The conquest of Constantinople marked the effective end of the Roman Empire, a state which dated to 27 BC and lasted nearly 1,500 years.[8] The capture of Constantinople, a city which marked the divide between Europe and Asia Minor, also allowed the Ottomans more effectively to invade mainland Europe, eventually leading to Ottoman control of much of the Balkan peninsula.
