World History Reiveiw 1 Flashcards
What are the earliest river valley civilizations?
Mesopotamia
Nile Valley
Indus River
Huang He/ Shang
Ancient Religion and government are linked to what?
Pharaoh both a king and a god
What is the Oldest written law code?
Hammurabi
What was the first true monotheistic religion?
Hebrew
Linked to their role as great sea traders, and founded the alphabet
Phoenicians
What was the greatest trade route of the ancient world?
Silk route
Greek philosophers?
Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato
What were the Greeks contributions to culture?
Poetry, history, architecture, science, and math
Great Macidonian king and general, most lasting contribution was the diffusion of Greek culture
Alexander the Great
Roman General and leader who added territory to the empire and established autocratic rule
Julius Caesar
Ended the long civil wars, and established the Pax Romana
Augustus Caesar
Greatest engineers of the ancient world
Romans
End of the Roman Empire were because of ?
Economic, social decay
And attacks by the barbarians
Preserves the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome greatest impact on early Russia
Byzantine Empire
Led to long rule in Russia, sacked the medieval Arab empire, created a mogul dynasty in china
Mogul conquest
Founder of Islam
Muhammad
Holy text of Islam
Quran
Split in Islam?
Sunni and Shia
Common ideas between Judaism, Christianity, nd Islam
Acceptance of the Old Testament prophets, belief in one god, Jerusalem is the sacred city
What was the impact of the crusades?
Opened Europe to a wider world view, opened trade between Europe kings power grew at the expense of feudal nobles
Greatest center of learning in the miss ages “house of wisdom” is in
Baghdad
What is the basis of all ancient economies
Agriculture
Greatest early Medieval king
Charlemagne
