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| Explain the diffrence between radiocarbon and thermolumniscence dating |
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| Radiocarbon dating only allows for dating objects no more than 50,000 years old. Thermolumniscence can take measurments back to 200,000 years ago. |
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| In what order did homo erectus, homo sapiens, and hominids emerge? |
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| Hominids, homo erectus, homo sapiens |
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| Which came last? a. neolithic b. paleolithic |
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| first: paleolithic second: neolithic |
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| About how long aog did the last ice age end? |
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| Why do some think that cave art was part of a religious ritual? |
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| Animals were drawn very realistically |
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| What huge change took place in the Neolithic Revolution? |
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| The shift from hunthing and gathering to systematic agriculture. |
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| What is the function of government? |
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| Government organizes and regulates human activity. |
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| How were priests able to get special power? |
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| Priests supervised rituals aimed at pleasing them, giving them special power. |
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| Explain the importance of water control in Mesopotamia |
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| People living in Mesopotamia had no way to tell when the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were going to flood, and therefore farming could only be done when the waters were controlled so that crops wouldn't parish. |
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| How could Hammurabi's code be considered un-just? |
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| One un-just aspects of the laws would be the fact that the man had compleate, brutal control of his family. |
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| What was the Sumerians' greatest invention? |
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| Why was writing so important? |
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| records, education, key to a successful career etc |
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| What were 3 important Sumerian inventions? |
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| Wagon wheel, Potter's wheel, and the Sundile |
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| What does the “miricle of the nile” refer to? |
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| The Nile's yearly flooding. |
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| Why did Egyptians have no word for religion? |
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| Because to the Egyptians, religious ideas were an inseperable part of the entire world's order |
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| What are the three periods of Egyptian history? |
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| The Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom |
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| What did the Akhenaton try to do? |
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| Tried to destroy the old gods and introduce Ator (?), god of the sun dick as the sol god |
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| Phoenician culture is best known for its _______________? |
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| What is agreed upon about the Israelites? |
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| Betewwn 1200 B.C.-1000 B.C., the Israelites established the United Kingdom of Israel as a distinct group. |
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| Name two diffrences between the Hebrew religion and other religions of the time |
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● 1.) There's only one god for all
● 2.) No spiritual leader could claim that he alone know God's will. |
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| Explain how the Aryan conquest had a lasting impact on Indian socieoty |
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| They came up with a writing system and record keeping. they also divided india up into warring sections |
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| explain how reincarnation provided a religious basis for class divisions in Indian Socieotys |
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| reincar says that what you do in ur current life determines what ur class division/what u'll be in ur next live |
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| wat became the basic principles of buddhism? |
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| the 4 noble truths and the middle path |
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| why did buddhism appeal to the downtrodden? |
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| Siddhartha taught that ALL humans could reach Nirvana- it depended on behaviour not wealth |
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| the form inwhich the earliest form of indian lit comes from- written in sanskrit |
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| who is considered the greatest ruler in India's history? |
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| Indian's most important scientific contibution was in the field of __________? |
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| Objects used to communicate with he gods // to keep records on |
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| Describe how the mandate of heaven worked |
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| the Zhou dynastay claimed that heaven kept order in the univerce though the zhou king, thus that king ruled over all humanity w// a "mandate", or commands, from heaven |
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| How did mnt isolation impact future Greek Politics? |
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| the mnt iso caused the seperate communities to all develop in their own ways and become independant, making it hard for them to get along. |
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| the collapse of ___________ civilization lef to the greek "dark age" |
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| the expantion of trade and industry created problems between which 2 groups of ppl? |
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| newly wealthy men and aristocrats |
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| the rule of ________ ended the aristocratic rule in many city-states |
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| T or F: Unlike Sparta, most residents of Athens were citizens |
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| Under who did Athens become the center of Greek Cluture? |
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| What 2 sides fought in the Peloponnesian Wars? |
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| Why did athens need to import so much grain? |
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| b//c of the large # of ppl and lack of fertile land |
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| What Sophist beliefs led some to consider them harmful to socieoty? |
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| the belief that there is no definate right or wrong. Also that true wisdom consisted of being able to percieve and persue one's own good. |
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| What country conquored Greece in the 300 BCs? |
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| Who created the Hellenistic Era? |
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| What teacher started Stoicism? |
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| Give 3 reasons for the success of the romans |
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a.) Romans were good diplomats
b.) Romans excelled in military matters c.) Romans were practical in law and politics |
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| Why can it be said that Rome did not become democratic? |
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| b//c only patricians, wealthy upperclassmen, could elect gvmt. officicals |
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| who fought in the Punic Wars? |
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| Rome and the state of Carthage |
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| What did the Gracchus bros try to do? |
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| they urged the council of plebs to pass land-reform bills that called for the govmt. to take back public land held by large landowners and give it to landless |
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| Why can it be said that Octavian was a better politition than Ceasar? |
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| He got the senate to agree with him even though he limied its power just like Caesar |
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| b//c he weakend the senate's power |
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| Who were the Sadduccees, Essenes, and Zealots, and how did they differ? |
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Jews Sadducees = favored cooperation with romer
a. Essnes = shared goods in common lived apart from society waited for god to save Israel from oppression
b. Zealots = called for violent overthrow of roman rule |
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| Xtianity began as a movement within what religion? |
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| 3 reasons why xtianity attracted so many followers |
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1.) xtian message had much to offer to the roman world
2.) seemed familiar
3.) fulfilled the human need to belong |
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| What 2 institutions were enlarged under Diocletian and Constantine? |
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| the army and civil service |
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| Who is the God of the Muslims? |
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| How, according to the Muslims, did Muhammad receive God's word? |
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| from an angle named Gabriel |
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| Muslims split into what 2 branches? |
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| How did the Seljuk Turks help start the Crusades? |
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| They converted to Islam and grew stronger and gradually moved into Iran and captured Baghdad, putting military pressure on the Byzantine Empire causing to turn to the west for help. |
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| In the 13th century, the ____________s seized control of much of the known world. |
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| What is the cyclical view of history? |
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| Civilizations go through regular cycles of birth growth and decay |
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| T or F: b//c of the Koran, there are no painting of Muhammad |
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| T or F: The ppl of Ghana prospered from their possession of both iron and gold |
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| T or F: Under Manda Musa, the kingdom of Mali quadrupled in size. |
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| T or F: All of the members of a lineage group could claim to be descended from a common ancestor |
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| T or F: Griots told stories in order to preserve and pass down history |
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| Kush declined because of the rise of _______. |
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| Axum, a new power located in the highlands of what is now Ethopia |
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| The Official religion of Axum was _________. |
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| Islam was slow to spread in East Africa b//c ____________________. |
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| many of Islams beliefs conflicted with traditional African beliefs. |
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| To stay in power, the Song dynasty formed a disastrous alliance with the ________, a nomadic people from the Gobi. |
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| _______________, known as Empress Wu, was an exception to the argument that few Chinese women had any power. |
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| Two of the most popular poets during the Tang era were Duo Fu and _________. |
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| The __________ fought unsuccessfully to defend northern India against Mahmud and his successors. |
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| After the death of Timur Lenk, the two challenges to India were the Moguls and traders from _____________. |
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| In S.E. Asia, the hereditary _________ were at the top of the social ladder |
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| Monks copied the scriptures and Latin classics in rooms called ________________. |
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| The region of land, given by the west Frankish king to the Vikings came to be called ________________. |
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| Under Edward I, the English ________ emerged |
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| In 1215, at Runnymeade, King John signed a document called _________. |
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| 5 reasons for the dramatic increase in population in the Middle Ages. |
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1) conditions were more settled and peaceful.
2) expansion in food production.
3) change in climate.
4) more land for farming.
5) changes in technology. |
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| Why was everything crowded together in medieval towns? |
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Because the towns were surrounded by stone walls which were
expensive to build. |
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| From the 11th century, crafts people people began to organize themselves into ____________. |
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| Why did popes not like "lay investiture"? |
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Because secular or lay rulers chose nominees over the church and
gave them the symbols of their office. |
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| The _________________ ______________ was the most devestating natural disasterin European history? |
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| What 2 countried fought in the 100 year war |
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| The inuit moved into North America from ___________ |
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| The hopewell ppl lived on which continent? |
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| Why do many ppl thing the Anasazi left? |
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| Prolonged drought in the 13th century. |
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| name used for areas of Mexico and Central America |
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| Put these in the order they were founded: Mayan, Olmec, Aztec |
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| The Maya created a writing system based on what? |
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| Montezuma believed that _____ was Quetzalcoatl |
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| The religious reform movement that divided the western church into Catholic and Protestant is called the Prodistant ___________ |
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