World History Fall Final Exams
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- Neanderthal
- Type of homo sapien
- Homosapien sapiens
- 1st ppl look like us
- Why were paleolithic ppl nomads?
- Had no choice but to follow their food
- what is the paleolithic age called?
- old stone age
- what created change in the neolithic revolution?
- systematic agriculture
- what allowed humans to make settlements
- domestication
- how do historians identify a civilization?
- complex cultural
- What is anthropology?
- study of human life and culture
- homoerectus
- up right human being
- How fast did modern humans spread across the world?
- 2-3 miles per generation
- what is the nickname for the neolithic age?
- new stone age
- what did farming in mesopotamia create?
- civilization
- What is hammurabi known for
- code of hammurabi
- what are the 10 lost tribes?
- scattered israelites
- what is the difference between jewish profits & early religions?
- Had 1 god
- What kept the Persian empire strong?
- Roads
- What is a theocracy?
- Govt by divine authority
- who created cunieform writing?
- symmerians
- name the 3 major periods of old egyptian history is divided into?
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*old
*middle
*new - What is the importance of the phoenician alphabet?
- we still use it today
- who was the king of israle when it was at its peak?
- solumn
- who created the caste system in india?
- aryans
- who was buddah?
- siddhartha gautama
- what was the silk road?
- trade route
- the first Han emperor discarded what?
- harsh policies
- who were the aryans?
- indo - european nomads
- what did buddah believe caused suffering?
- attchment to things of the world
- what was india's greatest ruler?
- Asoka
- what indian created the decimal system?
- Abyharth
- What is Dao
- Proper way
- who were the first humans to use fire?
- homo erectus
- What is pre-history?
- Before age of writing
- In 1974 where did they find Terra-Cota warriors?
- East of Xian in an underground pit near the burial mound of the 1st Qin Emperor
- What is a polis?
- For of govt in which a small group of ppl exercises control
- How did Plato say you could achieve a good life?
- Ideal State
- What did the conquest of Alexander the Great create?
- Enormous legacy
- Eratosthenes - What did he create & determine?
- Earth was round and the circumference
- What is epicurus? What is stoicism?
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*Happy was the goal of life
*School of thought - What was homer's Iliad & Odyssey?
- Epic Poems
- What did Cleisthenes create?
- new council of 500 that dealt with foreign affairs
- Who lived on Mt. olympus?
- The Gods
- Euclid - Wrote a book on elements what was it about?
- Geometry
- Who made up the Roman Senate? Patricians or Plebians?
- 200 Patricians
- What is a republic?
- A form of govt. where the leader is not a king
- What happened to Julius Caesar?
- Assassinated
- What was Pax Romana?
- Time of peace and prosperity
- What is the Augustan Age called?
- Golden age of Latin literature
- who was the first christian empire?
- Constantine
- Who split the empire into 4 parts?
- Diocletian
- At its height how big was Rome's eimpire?
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*50 million ppl
*35 million sq miles - What did the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine do to the empire?
- They destroyed it
- What does the term bread and circuses refer to?
- (still have to figure this answer out)SORRY
- Who said the unexamined life is not worth living?
- (still have to figure this answer out) SORRY
- What's an oligarchy?
- rule by the few