World History Flashcards
role of OPEC
Germans killed at Olympics
1972: 11 Israeli athlets. by PLO who was in opposition to Israel
aka Persia
Iran
leader of Iran
Shah
Iran and women right to vote
Iran gave women the right to vote in 1963
Iranian Revolution
1979L Ayatollah Khemoni. revolution forces Shah . implemented shariah law
estuary in the mittle east
Shatt al Arab esuary
- Iran/IRaw war post Iranian Rev.
- border of each nation was supposed to go through the center but each wanted to control the estuary
- Khomei didn’t think Prez Saadam Hussein of Irq was a true muslim. Sadaam welcomed modern technology whil Ayatollah was old school
first mission to Jupiter
Pioneer 10
1972
sea between sweeden and mainland
baltic Sea
sea between Scandinavia and Russia
barrets sea
sea between UK and Norway
North Sea
located directly south of Norway
Denmark
boarder between Europe and Asia
Ural Mts
culture on Crete
Minoan
ancient storyteller
Homer did Illiand and Odyssey in 800bc
city state of Athens
Athens was the chief city-state of Attica
ran first marathon
Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to report defeat
Xerxes
480bc. watched defeat at Salamis. beheaded captains when swam ahore
Greek who believed all things were made of atoms
Democrities
father of history
Herodotus
writing by Herodotus
father of History
Perisan war
greek tragedies
Sophocles
Sophocles
greek gragedies
epic poems of greek
lyre
commedy greek who wrote about Athens Peloponnnesian war
Aristophanes
“know thyself”
Socrates
location of Sicilly
less than 100 miles from North Africa
prince of troy
Aneas is a prince of troy who fought in the Trojan war. went to Italy, ROme
Praetors
- in roman gov.head of senate/assembly.
Censurs
- in Roman gov
- supervises citizens, sets taxes, appropriate Senator usually forms. consuls
Counsolors
2 in Roman gov
supreme pwoer
elected every yaer
head of gov, commander in chief
becomes Senator at end of term
treasurers in Roman governmen
Quaestors. 8. 1yr term
Tribunes
10 in Roman gov
- 1yr term
- guards rights of plebians and can veto Senators
how manySenators in Roman governmetn
500
commoners in Rome
plebians
nobels in Rome
patricians
aka veto
“I forbide”
Twelve Tables
450bc.
first Roman Code of laws as created from plebian. written on bornze tablets and posted in Roman square
role of Caesar
governor of Gaul
rival of Julius Caesar
Pompey
downfall of Julius Ceaesar
49bc: Senate, who supported Pompey, ordered Caesar to return to Rome. brought army w/him so he wouldn’t be killed. Pompey fled
44bc: Caesar assassinated with 23 daggers
sucessor of Julius Caesar
Julius had chosen OActavian. 27bc. grandnewphew adopted
Roman writer
Cicero
inspiration for ancient Roman art
Greek
- greek = beauty and perfection
- roman = as things really are
concrete
sand/gravel bound by cenemnt
wrote about the founding of Rome
Aneid by Virgil
road of Rome
Appian Way
baths of Rome
Baths of Caricalla (kahr-uh-KAL-uh)
what did Roman emperors belief would make their people content/peaceful
foregin office
consulate
5 germanic tribes
Visigoths - Iberian
Vandals - N. Africa
Ostrogoths (AH truh gahts) and Balkans
- Saxons - England
franks -Gaul/W. Germany
leaders of barbarians
Cheiftians. ruled land only they could defend
aka Barbarians
germanic tribes
Charlemagne
close ties with pope
King of France in 758
Pope Leo 3 crowned him Holy Roman Emperor
reing of Augustus Ceaesr
41yr emperor of Rome
only held offices that existed before prior but held them year after year
Augustus - respected one
Golden Age of Rome - 27bc-14AD
“I found Rome brick and left it marble”
“I found Rome brick and left it marble”
Augustus Caesar
peace of Rome
Pax Romana
emperor when the Roman empire was at its largest
Trajan 117AD
famous art of Byzantine mepire
mosaics
Constantine
312AD: Emperor became a Christian
Christianity became a state religion in Rome
Cosntantinople
official capital of Roman Empire in 330AD
official capital of Roman Empire in 330AD
Constantiniople
germanic tribe ruler who took over Rome
476 AD: Odoacer (oh doh AY gun)
end of the Byzantine empire
1453
main square of Rome
foreum
roman courtyard
atrium
aka Latin-esque languages
Romance languages: latin, french, italian, spanish
Justian Code
530AD
goods taken by force
plunder
started the crusades
Pope Urban III
1095-France
crusade year range
8 major crusades between 1095-1291
captured Jerusalem in 1099 and held until 1187
feudalism
middle ages
system of loyalty and protective
800-1300AD
nobels in feudalism
vassals - owned loyalty to higher nobels and got land back
land in feudalism
fiefs
worked the land in feudalism
serfs
villages in feudalism
villages on manors = large estates
way to become a knight
page - squire at 15yo - knight at 21yo
promise by knight
knights promised to defend the christian church. chivalry
armored knights
heavy, slow,expensive, easy to defeat
- only rich could have
- fell out of favor by 1400
community of Christians
Christedom
sheepskin
parchment
gives rights to something
charter
location of famous cities in Spain
center = Madrid
center but south of Madrid: Toledo
South but not south coast = Cordoba an Seville
western coast = Valencia
south
gibralter
island due east of Spain
Palma
NW coast of Spain
Barcelona
location of Lisbon
Portugal. slightly south of middle coastline
city on the eastern coast of Spain
Barcelona and Valencia
in-between France and Spain
Andorra
Bordeaux
coast on Atlantic
apprentice to professional
apprentice - journeyman-master
- guild had to approve apprentice to master
years of the Renaissance
1400-1600
purpose of Magna Carta
1215: King John
- nobels wanted to protect their rigghts but hte final results also protected peasants
river in Florence
Arno River
- Medici banking control
Lorenzo de Medici was a patron of hte art
first perspective painter
Giotto
painted St Peter’s church
Michangelo
yr of the Mona Lisa
1503
yr Martin Luther nailed to door
1517 Whittenberg 95 Theses
movement Martin Luther starte
Reformation
how did the Reformation start
1517: nailed 95 Theses on the door of theWhittenberg church
HRE up against Martin Luther
Charles V. forbade anyone to help ML so a prince kidnapped him. wrote constantly while in shelter
Moors
Muslims in teh Iberian penninsula.
Ferdinand of Aragton and Isabella of Castille married in 1469 and drove out the Moors in 1492
action Ferdinand and Isabella did
drove the Moors out of Spain in 1492
first Tudor King
1485
Henry 7
year Queen Mary died
1558
explorer during Liz I
Sir Francis Drake
100 yrs War dates
England v France
1337-1453
year of Joan of Arc
1429: told to drive England out of France at 16yo
book about the heliocentric theory
Copernicus 1543
improved the telescope
Gaileo
Newton gravity. said that force kept planets
1687
year Liz I died
1603
yr the Netherlands became independent from Spain
1648