World History

Question 1

Southeast Asia (civilization=Mesopotamia) 
Tigris and the Euphrates rivers

Answer 1

Development:
-Writing (Cuneiform)
-Organized Government
Written Law code (Hammurabi's code)
-Systemized Religion (Zoroastrianism)
-Astronomy; Astrology

Question 2

Northeastern Africa (civilization=Egypt)
Banks of Nile River
Mediterranean and Red Seas

Answer 2

-Complex religion of gods, rituals, and governances(Pharaoh)
-Writing (hieroglyphics)
-Engineering and building (pyramids)
Mathematics

Question 3

Southern Asia (civilization=India)
Indus and Ganges rivers
Arabian Sea

Answer 3

• Urban Culture
• Planned Cities (citywide sanitation system)
• Metallurgy (gold, copper, bronze, and tin)
• Measurement (weight, time, length, mass)

Question 4

East Asia (civilization= China) 
Yellow River

Answer 4

• Writing
• Commerce
• Government

Question 5

Significance of Egyptian Civilization

Answer 5

• Dominated by concerns of afterlife, religion, and the Pharoah
• Medical Advances and specialized surgeries were a major contribution
• Hieroglyphics were invented
• Commerce flourished throughout Arabia, Africa and part of Africa
• Agriculture was the basis of the economy
• The Nile had an impact on all of Egyptian society.

Question 6

Aegean Background Civilizations

Answer 6

Minoan and Mycenaean

Question 7

Minoan Civilization

Answer 7

• Part of Crete

- Extensive commerce

Question 8

Mycenaean Civilization

Answer 8

Heavily fortified cities

Question 9

Athens

Answer 9

• Direct Democracy established

- world commercial center and cosmopolitan city

Question 10

Sparta

Answer 10

• Totalitarian and militaristic state
• dependent on slave labor for agriculture
• often at conflict with Athens after defeat of Persia

Question 11

Peloponnesian War

Answer 11

(431-404 BCE) War be Athens and Sparta.

• Sparta won but left Greece weak as a whole and ready to fall to its neighbors to the north.
• Sparta was unable to unify the greek city- states after its victory.

Question 12

Alexander the Great

Answer 12

• Established the Hellenic Age
• conquered Persia, Asia minor and egypt
• Bureaucracy replaced city-state as form of govt.

Question 13

Contributions of the Greek World

Answer 13

• Founding of most major philosophical schools
• established basis for scientific method
• advances in shipbuilding
• Established democracy and system of law
• dominant in agriculture, art and literature.

Question 14

Cause of the fall of Roman Empire

Answer 14

• Barbaric invasion
• economic decline
• excessive military spending to defend the empire

https://quizlet.com/85121970/10-reasons-why-rome-fell-flash-cards/

Question 15

Basic Doctrines

Answer 15

• Christianity began with teaching of Jesus of nazareth
• emphasized the Holy Bible as work of god and importance of moral life for salvation
• Paul the apostle responsible for the spread of christian ideology and the resulting response from roman empire.
• St. Augustine became first great christian philosopher

Question 16

Reasons for spread of christianity

Answer 16

• Solidarity had grown during roman persecution period
• Doctrines stressed equality and immortality
• the conversion of constanstine to christianity
• est of christianity as the official roman religion
• est of supremacy of the pope at the time imperial rome was disintegrating.

Question 17

Byzantine Accomplishments

Answer 17

• Greek Language and culture influence
• center of world trade and exchange of culture
• Codification of roman law
• Easter church converted slavic people to christianity
• new focus for art: glorification of christianity.

Question 18

Reasons for Byzantine sucess

Answer 18

• Economic prosperity (commercial trade was controlled by constantinople and a monopoly of the silk trade)
• Byzantines were able to avoid invasions and they were geographically distant from tribes who sacked Rome.
• Codification of roman law by Justinian strengthened the bureaucracy.
• defensible borders.

Question 19

Reasons for decline of Byzantine empire

Answer 19

• Geographic proximity to those who were powerful (Arabs, slavs, turks and seljuk)
• loss of commercial dominance over italians
• Religious controversy
• The sack of constantinople during the 4th crusade
• The fall of constantinople

Question 20

Achievements of Byzantine Empire

Answer 20

• Persevered the heritage of Greco-Roman civilization while the west was culturally stagnant
• spread civilization to to all eastern europe
• preserved the Eastern orthodox church
• Economic strength was based on stability of its money economy.

Question 21

Muslim empire + Rise of Islam

Answer 21

• the koran became the center of islamic moral and ethical conduct.
• Mohammed est. theocracy based on islamic law.

Question 22

Battle of Tours A.D 732

Answer 22

ended in franks halting muslim expansion in europe

Question 23

Why the Muslim Empire divided

Answer 23

• The abbasids overthrew the Umayyads- the capital moved to Baghdad.
• Iberian and North African Muslims broke from Baghdad’s control.

Question 24

islamic world

Answer 24

https://quizlet.com/8838791/the-islamic-world-flash-cards/