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7th Grade World Cultures Final

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Culture  
  • Values
  • Traditions
  • Habits
  • Skills

   Of a people
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Technology
is the tools and skills to use them
Nomads
people who move from place to place in search of food.
Monarchy
Type of government ruled by a king or queen.
Monotheistic religions
Islam, Judaism and Christianity
Islam's founder
Muhammad
A government where people vote for the leaders
Republic or Democracy
Dictator
Has complete control over the government, army and citizens.
Four Types of Ancient Architecture
  1. Doric
  2. Ionic
  3. Gothic
  4. Corinthian
Developed a process called smelting to make iron weapons.
Hittites
Immortals
Best fighters in the Persian army because their numbers never fell below 10,000.
Strongest Persian king
Darius
Famous Persian religious leader
Zoroaster
Fertile Crescent
Area from the Nile River Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley.
Great Mesopotamian traders.
Phoenicians
Developed the first written Code of Laws
Hammurabi
Replaced bronze as the most important metal.
Iron
First monotheistic culture
Jews
First group to develop a civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumerians
Other ancient civilizations that developed
Indus and Huang He River Valley
Ziggurat
Sumerian temple and center of each city-state.
Cuneiform
Sumerian writing system
Rules Sumerian city-states
Priest-kings
Created the world's first empire in Mesopotamia
Sargon I
Sumerian contributions to modern society
  1. The wheel
  2. The plow
  3. The sailboat
  4. 12 month calendar
  5. Number system based on 60
  6. Water clock
Dynasty
Series of rulers from the same family
Tomb for a pharaoh
Pyramid
Hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptian writing system
Most important person in Egyptian society
Pharaoh
Who united Lower and Upper Egypt in 3100 B.C.?
Menes
Key to translating hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
The Gift of the Nile
Egypt
Where are the Pyramids and Sphinx located
Giza
Shadoof
Used for irrigation in ancient Egypt
God of the Underworld in Ancient Egypt
Osiris
Osiris's wife
Isis
Egyptian River God
Hopi
Amen Re
Egyptian sun god
Done to preserve bodies
Embalming
Invaded and took over Egypt
Hyksos
First female ruler of Egypt
Hatshepsut
Changed the religion of Egypt with his wife Nefertiti
Amenhotep IV
Egyptian contributions to modern societ
  1. Papyrus
  2. Number system based on 10
  3. Fractions
  4. Geometry
  5. Medical specialists
  6. Sewing cuts
  7. Setting broken bones
  8. Treating diseases with natural remedies
What body of water did the Greek civilization start?
Aegean Sea
First Bronze age civilization
Minoans
Polis
City-State
Aristocracy
Government ruled by a small group of upper class nobles.
Who spread Hellenistic Culture throughout the world?
Alexander the Great
Strongest army in Greece
Sparta
Famous Persian War Battles
  1. Marathon
  2. Salamis
  3. Thermopylae
  4. Platea
Greek city-states never united because...?
Mountainous country
3 Greek Philosophers
  1. Socrates
  2. Plato
  3. Aristotle
Who lived on the island of Crete?
Minoans
Who participated in the sport of bull leaping?
Minoans
What myth explained the fall of the Minoan culture?
Theseus and Minotaur
What did the Mycenaeans trade in the Mediterranean area?
Olive oil
Who fought in the Trojan War?
The Greeks and the Trojans
Odysseus
Greek hero of the Trojan war.
Famous Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
Agora
Open air market of the Greeks
Created the world's first constitution and democracy
The Greeks
Contributions of the Greeks to modern society
  1. Olympics
  2. Tragedy writing
  3. Theater
  4. Scientific method
  5. Medicine
Famous writers of tragedies
  1. Sophocles
  2. Euripides
  3. Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Wrote comedies
Famous Greek mathematicians
  1. Pythagoras
  2. Archimedes
  3. Euclid
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Father of History
Herodotus
Developed the new fighting formation called a phlanx
Phillip of Macedonia
Conquered territory as far east as India
Alexander the Great
Early settlers of Italy
  1. Etruscans
  2. Latins
  3. Greeks
Rome was founded on what river?
Tiber River
The Twelve Tables
Rome's first laws
Punic Wars

Three wars of Carthage vs Rome
Hannibal
General from Carthage who crossed the Alps with elephants and an army.
What gods did the Romans adopt as their own, but with different names?
The Greek gods
Causes of the Fall of Rome
  1. Inflation
  2. Military corruption
  3. Lack of interest in politics
  4. Invasion by Germanic tribes and Huns
Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
First Roman emperor
Who discovered concrete?
The Romans
The poet Virgil
Wrote The Aeneid
The Apostle Paul
Did the most to spread the message of Jesus
Germanic tribes overran the Roman Empire and ...
caused its fall.
Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
Constantinople
Romulus and Remus
Twin brothers who fought to rule Rome
Aqueducts
Used to bring fresh water to Rome from the mountains.
Lower class Roman citizens
Plebians
Arena used for gladiator fights
The Colosseum
Patricians
Upper class Roman citizens
Who ruled with Octavian?
Marc Antony
Who was involved politically and romantically with Cleopatra?
Marc Antony
Orator
A public speaker
The language of Rome
Latin
Et tu Brute

You too Brutus

Caesar's quote during his assination

The year the Roman Empire ended
476 AD
Pax Romana
The "Peace of Rome" that lasted 200 years
Romanesque
Style of architecture that uses the rounded arch developed by the Romans
Protected the rights of plebieans in the Roman Senate
Tribunes
Legions
Divisions of the Roman army.
Lived in Modern day France
The Franks
Who was the strongest force in the Middle Ages?
The Catholic Church
Who ruled the strongest empire in 800 AD?
Charlemagne
Feudal System
Based on control of the land.
Won control of England in the Battle of Hastings
William of Normandy
First King of France
Clovis
Why were the Crusades fought?
To win the Holy Land from the Muslims
Castles were built for
  1. Protection
  2. Safety
  3. Strength of the Nobles
Knight's title
Sir
Who gave a vassal his land?

The lord
Feudalism
Political system in the Middle Ages
Who crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor?
The Pope
Who was the most powerful person in Europe during the Middle Ages
The Pope
Tithe
10% donation to the church
Architecture that represens a pointed arch
Gothic
Defeated the Muslims in the Battle of the Tours
Charles the Hammer
What did Charlemagne stress in his empire?
Education
Page
Knights in Training
Squire
Knights in Training
The most popular event in a tournament?
Joust
Where did knights train/
Tournaments
Manors
Middle age farming communities
Lowest class of people that were tied to the land
Serfs
Two well known order of Monks in the Middle Ages
Franciscans and Dominicans
Crusades contributions
  1. Increase in trade
  2. End of feudalism
  3. Increased learning
  4. Increased trade routes
Renaissance last in Europe through what years?
1300-1600
Humanist scholars belieed in
The potential of man to achieve.
When was the Christian church reformed?
during the Reformation
Who questioned the Catholic doctrine in Germany
Martin Luther
What was Luther's doctrine based on ?
Belief in the Bible alone
Who founded the Church of England
Henry VIII
Who defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?
England
Where did the Renaissance start?
Northern Italy
Who was the most powerful family in Florence during the Renaissance?
Medici
Michelangelo
Painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Christopher Columbus discovered ? in 1492?
Bahamas for Spain
Johann Gutenbert
Invented the printing press.
Most famous English playwright
William Shakespeare
What killed 1/3 of the population in Europe?
Black Plague
Formed guilds to ensure fair treatent
  1. Merchants
  2. Artisans
  3. Workers
Order of training of workers in the Renaissance
  • Master Craftsman

  • Apprentices

  • Journemen
Magna Carta

Took away some power of the English king and gave more power to the nobles.

 

Signed by King John of Runnymede 

Joan of Arc
Helped France defeat England in the 100 Year War.
Greatest thinker of the Renaissance
Leonardo Da Vinci
Painted the Mona Lisa, Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarroti  
Painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the Pieta

Who wrote the Gargantua and Pantagruel
French Monk - Rabelais
Miguel de Cervantes
Wrote Don Quixote
El Greco
Famous Spanish painter during the Renaissance
Who led England to victory over Spain?
Queen Elizabeth I.
Who formed the Lutheran church?
Martin Luther
Who started a church in Geneva, Swiz.
John Calvin
First European to sail southern Africa?
Bartholomew
Who completd one of the first trips to Asia by means for the oldd
Vasco da Gama

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