Pre history Flashcards
Why were empires conquered?
For their recourses
What does an industrial society need? And if you don’t have them what do you do?
Fuel water and metals. If you don’t have them you conquer a territory that has them, trade for it, buy it, or steal it.
Why were empires built?
To market goods and for natural recourses
What are artisans
Skilled craft workers such as carpenters blacksmiths cobblers painters plumbers and electricians
What are pictographs?
A drawing that represents an idea
We’re ancient kingdoms of the Nile monotheistic or polytheistic?
Polytheistic
What is cultural diffusion
Taking someone’s ideas and changing them to fit your needs
Who developed a form of writing called cuneiform?
Sumerians
Who is Hammurabi?
King who ruler Mesopotamia. Known as the rule giver.
Gave us a code of behavior
Why were the Jews enslaved by the Egyptians?
Because they were monotheistic
Who were the Jews led out of slavery by?
Moses
Where were the 10 commandment established?
Mt. Sini
What is a diaspora?
Scattering of people
Other names for Jews and Arabs
Israelites and Palestinians
Castes
Social groups into which people are born into and can not leave
Animism
(Anim=life) belief in life
Belief or worship of living things
Mystics
People who devoted their to seeking spiritual truth
Dynasty
A family who has ruler for many years
Who are the 3 original American civilizations
Incans Mayans and Aztecs
What is a state
An independent country
Who is the founder of Hinduism? What is the scared text?
No founder and no scared text
What to Hindus believe?
That everything is part of the in hanging and all powerful force called the Brahman
Who are the 3 most important gods
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Reincarnation
Rebirth of the soul in another bodily form
