Global History Midterm Review
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- Mesopotamia Rivers
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Egypt River
- Nile
- China River
- Yellow River/Huang He
- India River
- Indus River
- Rome River
- Do River and Tiber River
- Archipelago
- Group of many islands
- Fertile Crescent
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"Cradle of Civilization"
Crescent of fertile land in Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates
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Rivers in Mesopotamia
Violent and unpredictable flooding - How did the Tigris and Euphrates river effect Mesopotamia?
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Advanced irrigation systems
Advanced government to organize and control floods. - Hammurabi's Law
- Law system in Mesopotamia
- Silt
- Fertile soil deposited by many rivers
- Nile River
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River in Egypt
Annual and predictable flooding - Deserts in Egypt
- Served as natural barriers
- Theocracy
- Religion and government combined
- Huang He/Yellow River
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Violent flooding
"River of Sorrows"
Went off course - Middle Kingdom
- Ancient China felt as if they were the Middle Kingdom because they were so isolated
- Ethnocentrism
- The thought that your own race is better than all others
- Gobi Desert
- Served as a natural barrier in China
- Silk Road
- A long road in China where goods, mainly silk, was traded all over Europe
- Hindu Kush Mountains
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Mountains in Northwestern India
Contains the Khyber Pass - Khyber Pass
- A passageway in the Hindu Kush mountains that allowed invaders to enter and for cultural diffusion to take place
- Sparta
- A Greek city-state mainly known for war and agriculture
- Greece Geography
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Archipelago
Great harbors
75% Mountainous
Little farmland, mainly used for grazing - Steppe Farming
- The Chinese invention of farming on a mountain slope
- Alps
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On the border of northern Rome
Provides protection and serves a natural barrier - Location of Rome in Italy
- Centrally located
- Impact of the sea on Rome
- Provided protection and served as a trading route
- Uniting Greece
- Difficult to do
- Uniting Rome
- Easier too do