World History Flashcards
What were ancient civilizations based around?
Fertile river valleys
What civilizations were around the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
Sumer, Babylon, Assyria
What civilizations were around the Nile?
Pharaoh Menes’s Egyptian empire
What civilizations were around the Yellow River?
Shang and Zhou Dynasties
What civilizations were around the Indus?
ancient Indian civilization
Who created the first great civilization in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
What did they invent?
cuneiform
What was the Sumerians most powerful city-state?
Ur
Who unified the regions along the Nile to create the Egyptian empire?
Pharaoh Menes
What was the Egyptian empire’s capital?
Memphis
What did China’s Shang Dynasty (1750-1040BC) leave behind?
Intricate metalwork and early written Chinese
What is the earliest know example of written law?
The Code of Hamurabi 1700BC
Early Judaism still influence what?
Justice, morality, and ethics
Greek and Roman civilization passed down ideas on what?
democracy, national citizenship, arts and sciences
Julius Caesar made himself what?
dictator for life
Who was Julius Caesar’s heir?
Octavian (Augustus Caesar) the first Roman emperor
Who were the advanced civilizations in now Mexico and South America?
Maya, Inca, and Aztec
Who depicted ancient King David?
Donatello
Who painted the Flagellation?
Piero della Francesca
Who painted the Sinstine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Who painted the La Gioconda or the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who designed the Chateau du Louvre?
Pierre Lescot
When was Shakespeare born?
1564
Who drew the Vitruvian Man?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which Spanish conquistador vanquished the Aztec Empire?
Herman Cortes
Who subjugated Puerto Rico?
Ponce de Leon
Who subjugated Cuba?
Diego Velaquez
Where did the Industrial Revolution originate?
Great Britain in the late eighteenth century
In World War I who were the Triple Entente forces?
Great Britain, France and Russia
What was one factor the US decided to join World War I?
The Zimmermann telegram
What pact did Hilter violate?
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact he did this by invading the Soviet Union in 1941
Who were the axis powers in WWII?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Who were two major figures in the Chinese civil war?
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong
What did the Mexican Constitution of 1917 recognize?
labor rights and social orders of the people
What concern resulted in the 1980 Iran-Iraq War?
The Ayatollah Khomeini adn his Islamic regime might affect the tenuous balance of alliances within the Muslim world
