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Semester History Exam Flashcards

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civil service

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Administrative service of the government. Han Wudi favored the rich.

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Zhou

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Rule China longer than any other dynasty

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Wu Wang

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led a rebellion against Shang

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Period of Warring States

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Period where everyone tried to restore order in China

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Huang He (yellow river)

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river where china first developed.

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Chang Jiang

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Longest River in China

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Himalayas

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mountain range that separated china from india

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Gobi Desert

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makes the yellow river yellow because of its yellow dust.

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Loess

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Yellow dust- like fertile soil, blown into the yellow river

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China’s geographic barriers

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Deserts, mountains, + bodies of water isolated China from the world

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3 major advances in the Paleolithic Age

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Tools, Fire, Language

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Brahman

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Universal spirit worshipped by Hindus

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Karma

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force that decides the form of people in their next lives

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Dharma

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A person’s personal duty, based on their society

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Nirvana

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A state of perfect happiness and peace

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Guru

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a teacher

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Vedas

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ancient sacred writings of India

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Subcontinent

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a large landmass that is smaller than a continent

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Ashoka Maurya

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Grandson of Chandragupta, took Mauryan empire to it’s height, converted to Buddhism.

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Gupta Empire

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Golden Age of India, restored Hinduism

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Mauryan Empire

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1st centralized empire of India, founded by Chandragupta Maurya

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Samudra Gupta

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Expanded the empire with 40 years of conquest + war

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Siddhartha Gupta

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Founder of Buddhism (the Buddha)

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Xia Dynasty

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Earliest dynasty, there is no known evidence that it existed, but artifacts have been found.

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Qin Shihuangdi

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United China for the 1st time.
- great wall
- laws
- money
- weights
- writing
- buried with Terracotta Warriors

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Han Wudi

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most important emperor
- expanded the empire
- built schools
- created civil service system

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envoy

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a government representative to a another country

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Narmer

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Old Kingdom; united Egypt

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Khufu

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Old Kingdom; Great Pyramid

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Khafre

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Son of Khufu; old kingdom; great Sphinx

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Thutmose III

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New Kingdom; Conquest all the way to Meso

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Akhenaton

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Father of King Tut; Converted to monotheism; New Kingdom

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Ramses II

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New Kingdom; Architexture

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Ramses III

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New Kingdom; conquest + architecture

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Sumerians

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People living in Sumer, first developed along the Tigris and Euphrates

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Sumerian Calendars were based on…

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the cycles of the moon

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4 Sumerian inventions

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wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, geometry

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Sumerian middle class

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artisans, fisherman, farmers, and artisans

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Gilgamesh

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hero who traveled the world doing great deeds

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Assyrians

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1st army to use iron weapons

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1st Sumerian kings were probably

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war heroes

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materials used to build much of Sumer

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mud bricks

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trade route that made babylon rich

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mediterranean sea 2 persian gulf

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Sargon

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developed the 1st empire in Meso

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Nebuchandnezzar

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Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon

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5 Themes of Geography

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Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region

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Movement

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how borders are decided, how people get from one place to another

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Regions

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A geographic area that has one feature that sets it apart from other geographic area

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opportunity cost

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whatever must be given up to get some item

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Economic System

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how a society organizes their economy

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REseccion

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slowdown in the nation’s economy

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Citizenship

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informed active member of a community

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duties of citizenship

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  • voting
  • obeying law
  • jury duty
  • joining armed forces (if drafted)
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anarchy

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lack of government or law, individual has complete freedom

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feudalism

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king and queen have power but give some to the nobles

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examples of monarchy

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england, vatican city

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examples of constitutional monarchy

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UK and Morocco

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examples of oligarchy

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russia, china, iran

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Systematic Agriculture

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organized farming on a schedule

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