Chabot Global History
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- Neolithic Age
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The New Stone Age
The people settled down
They respected the dead
They created the first calander
Domesticated animals - Paleolithic Age
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The Ice Age
or
Old Stone Age
2000000-10000BC
They were nomads
Believed in life after death
Fought alot because they needed land to live on and they needed food
Painted on cave walls - What is a glacier?
- A sheet of ice
- What is a nomad?
- A person/group of people that move place to place following animals and ripening fruit
- What is geography?
- The study of people, their environments, and resources availble to them
- What is a historian?
- someonewho studies how people have lived in the past
- What is technology?
- The skills and tools that people use to meet their basic needs
- What is an artifact?
- objects made by people
- What is archaeology?
- the study of ways of life of people by looking at their remains
- What is prehistory?
- the period of time before people invented the writing system
- what is hierarchy?
- a system of ranks
- what is cuniform
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in 3200bc
the sumerians invented the earliest form of writing
wedge shaped - what is the tale of sinuhe?
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Sinuhe was a egyptian offical forced to flee Syria
this story shows how egyptians viewed themselves and the people of the surrounding desert - what is the rosetta stone?
- a flat black stone that had writting in 3 lingos: heiroglyphics, demotics, and greek
- who is akhenaton?
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1380 BC
he didnt like people to believe in Amon-Re so he had people worship Aton, his symbol is the sundisk - who is jean champollion
- a french scholar that decifered the rossetta stone
- who is tutankhamen
- a 18 year old minor king
- who is howard carter
- 1922 he unearthed king tuts tomb
- who is Amon-Re
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the sun god
only pharaohs could conduct ceremonies to the sun god - who is isis
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the goddess of eternal life
symbol= an ankh, a holy cross with a loop at the top - what is papyrus?
- a plant that grows along the banks of the nile, they wrote with reed pens and ink on the papyrus strips
- what does demotic mean
- its a simpler form of writing for everyday use
- what is heiroglyphics
- picture writing used to keep important records
- what is the preservation of the dead
- mummification
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who is ptah-hotep?
what did he write? - a wise vizer that wrote Instructions of the Vizer Ptah-hotep for young ppl because of his experiance in government, saw too many errors with young officals
- what is a triangular area of marshland formed by silf deposits at the mouth of some rivers
- a delta
- what is the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one person to another?
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cultural diffusion
just think, cultural diffusion=t-i-c,
Technologies,
Ideas,
Customs -
1290-1224BC
who won fame for military victories?
he pushed his rule through palestine to as far as Syria - Ramses II
- what does polytheistic mean?
- belief one god
- what is a pictogram?
- a simple drawing to represent words
- what is Giza?
- pyramids near present day cairo that suggest the strengh of the egyptian civilization
- what is silt
- soil
- what is a pharaoh
- an egyptian ruler
- what is a steppe
- sparse, dry grassland
- what is punt?
- Hatshepsuts greatest triumph was when she sent ppl to punt and returned with many valuable goods
- what are people called if they were specially trained and reading and writing
- scribes
- what is a political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages called?
- a city state
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who was the king that in 3100 united lower and upper egypt?
what was he the king of - menes, the king of upper egypt
- what is a dynasty?
- power that has passed from generation to generation in a ruling family
- what was skara brae
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a neolithic village
mastered the basic technology of weaving cloth
artists
respected the dead -
who is hatshepsut?
dates? -
her husband died and her son was too young to take the throne so she took it. she became the only female pharaoh
ruled from 1503-1482bc - what is a artisan
- a skilled craftworker
- what is a cataract?
- a waterfall
- what is a vizer?
- a chief minister
- what is a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officals called?
- a bureaucracy
- what is a empire?
- a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- what is a ziggurate?
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pyramid temples that soard towards the heavens
they had big steps -
who is sargon?
what did he do
dates? - the ruler of Akkad, he in 2300bc invaded and conquored the city states of Sumer
- who was the king of babylon?
- hammurabi
- what did hammurabi unite
- he united the babylonian empire by publishing a set of laws
- what is the code of hammurabi?
- a set of laws PUBLISHED by hammurabi, he did NOT write them.
- why did hammurabli publish laws?
- he wanted people to know the legal principles his government would follow
- where were hammurabi's codes put?
- he had the 300 laws carved on stone pillars
- what was the first major collection of laws in hisory? and what did they list?
- the first major collection of laws in hisory was the codes of hammurabi. they listed criminal and civil laws
- what is civil laws
- deals with private matters and rights
- what were hammurabi's accomplishments?
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improved irrigation
organized a well-trained army
had temples repaired
promoted the chief babylong god marduk - who is Marduk
- the chief babylonian god
- when did the hitties move from asia minor to mesopotamia?
- 1400bc
- why were the hitties able to arm more people at less expense?
- they learned how to extract iron out of ore, so they used iron which was plentyful for them
- when did the hitties empire collapse?
- 1200 bc
- who were the savage warriors
- the assyrains
- who were the first rulers to develop extensive laws regulating life within the royal house
- the assyrians
- who founded one of the first libraries?
- King Assurbanipal
- who in 612BC revived the power of babylon once King Assurbanipal was dead?
- King Nebuchadnezzar
- who made the first ziggurates and why
- King Nebuchadnezzer made ziggurates for his wife who was homesick
- under whos rule did the babylonian people advance greatly in astonomy?
- king nebuchadnezzer
- who did in 539BC babylon fall to?
- the persians
- who lead the persian armies?
- Cyrus the Great
- who was the perian emperor who ruled from 522-486BC
- darius
- who divided the persian empire into provinces, each headed by a governer?
- Darius
- what is a satrap?
- provinces each headed by a governer
- who is osiris
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a god
god of the dead and judge of the souls in seeking admissions to the afterlife - who introduced the coinage system
- the lyndians
- what is barter economy?
- exchanging one set of goods or services for another
- what replaced the barter economy
- the money economy
- who is zoroaster?
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helped unite persian empire
he taught that the single god Ahura Mazda ruled the world - what is the Zend-Avesta
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a collection of zoroaster's teachings
it taught that the god Ahura Mazda would triumph over the forces of evil. on that day all the ppl would be judged and either go to paradise OR be condemed to eternal suffering - what were the phoenicians known for
- sailing
- what is a colony
- a territory settled and ruled by people from a distant land
- who created the alphabet
- the pheonicians
- who added vowels to the 22 concenent alphabet?
- the greeks
- what is the torah
- the first 5 books of the bible
- what is Ur
- a mesopotamian city
- who is moses
- he led the hebrews in their excape from egypt
- what is another word for excape?
- exodus
- who is david
- he united the hebrew tribes into a single nation
- who is solomon
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davids son, turned Jersalm into an impressive capital
he won praise for his wisdom and understanding - why did in c.930 isreal split into the north and Judha in the south?
- because solomons building projects required heavy taxed and forced labor, the people revolted
- when did the hebrews be known as the jewish
- when king nebuchadnezzar put them all in captivity in babylon
- is judism mono or polytheistic?
- monotheistic
- what is monotheistic?
- belief in one god
- what is a covenant and what did this result in
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a binding agreement with abraham
this resulted in jews concidering themselves to be gods chosen people - what did jews call Canaan
- the promised land
- the ten cinnabdnebts are laws that jews believed god game them through who?
- moses
- what did hammurabi's codes require
- an eye for a eye and a life for a life
- what did the hebrews laws require
- an eye for an eye
- who is deborah
- a woman leader that won honor and respect
- what is a prophet
- a spiritual leader
- ethics
- moral standards of behavior
- what is diaspora
- the scattering of people
- what is a subcontinent?
- a large landmass that juts out from a continent
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tru or false
there are three subcontinents in the world, mexico, india, and italy
if false, correct it - false, india is the only subcontinent
- what are the 3 major zones of india's geography
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1. well-watered northern plain
2. dry, trangular deccan plateau
3. the coastal plains; the ghats - talk about the summer and winter monsoon, what are they like
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the winter monsoons come from the north east...they bring dry air
the summer monsoons come from the south west and bring heavy rain - what is a monsoon
- a seasonal wind
- how did the monsoons shape indian life
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the ppl became very negitive about life
famine and starvation occured
ect. - what were the 2 main cities of the indus valley civilization
- harappa and mohenjo-daro
- what does mohenjo-daro mean
- mound of dead
- what is the most striking feature of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
- the well planned cities
- were the people of the indus valley poly or monotheistic?
- polytheistic
- what animal do the indians believe is sacred
- the cow
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why did the indus vally civilization valley decline and disappear?
who took over? -
volcanic eruption blockeed the indus, therefore flooding the city
or
a earthquake hit
the aryans took over