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when: the neolithic era after 6000 BCE
who/what: argicultural society, had mounds which suggested higher powers
significance: first civilizations with signs of higher powers/ people of privelage, more disctinct element of inequality, positions of power |
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when: 800-400 BCE in India
who/what: a series of religous writings that gave expression to the philosophy of Hinduism
significance: brhama (the single impersonal divine reality); karma, rebirth, goal of liberation (being reborn as high class, moving up) |
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when: 2000 BCE
who/what: a law code used in Mesopotamia, describes punishments for law broken & slavery
significance: showed bureacucracy/ power & hierarchy |
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when: Neolithic Era 9000 BCE
who/what: Neolithic people, a region of land with good soil for crops
significance: named for half-mood shape & its rich soil, located in Middle East (present day Iraq) important to the flourishing of neolithic people, had variety of animals and wild plants |
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when: 25,000 yrs ago
who/what: Paleolithic people created them, sculptured figurines(carvings)
significance: could be fertility gods, right of passage (marriage, birth, women-hood, etc.) women most likely made them or helped men make them because of weaving |
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when: after 2000 BCE
who/what: describes death & the after world
death=journey
afterworld= house that people sit in dark
significance: Mesopotamia's most famous literary work, one of the first found written works |
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when: 490-479 BCE
who/what: Greeks & Persians fighting caused by small divided Greek cities & Persia (largest empire) & their patterns/wants for expansion conflicting
significance: Greeks won against all odds on land & sea, held off Persian empire from expanding |
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when: 73 BCE
who/what: he was a slave gladiator who led 70 other slaves from a school for gladiators in bid for freedom
significance: their surprisng success of their revolt led a growing # of slaves to rebell (120,000) |
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when: First Civilizations; 12000 BCE along coast of the Gulf of Mexico
who/what: cities w/ ceremonial centers filled w/ elamborate temples, altars, pyramids & tombs of rulers
significance: most famous artistic legacy some colossal basalt heads weighing 20 tons or more & 5-10 feet tall |
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when: Agricultural Rev
who/what: an agricultural village society, made of 7000 people that made mudbrick houses & lived very close togehter
significance: one of the first agricultural village societies, walls symbolic of protections & lived close together for protectiong & didnt have much inequality & buried dead & built on top of them |
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when: Neolithic Era 4000 to 3000 BCE
who/what: Neolithic people of the Americas grew this, poor in nutrients & protein
significance: corn or maize, much smaller & grass like than present day corn; meant agricultural rev took place much more slowly in Americas |
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when:45 BCE to 116 CE in China
who/what: a womean writer that wrote Lessons for Woman
significance: confucianism set tone for defining woman; Ban Zhao argued that woman should be educated not b/c they were equal to men but because needed to be prepared to serve their husbands; her being convincing trying to get woman educated either way |
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when: 2000 BCE during the first civilizations
who/what: city along the Induc River, 40,000 people, houses were 2-3 stories with indoor plumbing, bathrooms & private wells
significance: one of the first cilistions that has ahigh degree of specialization (irrigations/drainage/well systems) & ineqaulity
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when: 350-323 BCE
who/what: led expedition & took of Persian Empire territory after the Greco-Persian Wars
significance: spread Greek ways but gave similard order to the Persian empire; after he died empire was divided into smalled empires and run by his generals |
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when: 12,000 to 11,000 yrs ago
who/what: first Paleolithic people to flourish in the Americas, known for their distinctively made projectile points, named clovis points
significance: hunted large mammals, hunters/gatherers, climate change made nomadic, used up resources & extincted the food they hunted & gathered, making them later disappear |
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when: 6th century BCE in India
who/what: religous reformer of Buddhism
significance: created a well known religion that believed suffering was caused by desire/attachement; wanted to end suffering through modest, moral living & meditation practice |
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when: Paleolithic Era 50,000 to 80,000 yrs ago
who/what: the San of South Africa
significance: a technique used to keep equality, they would say you were insulting the meat you hunted if you boasted/bragged about it, pride to much not good because not equal, makes them feel better/more important when they kill a lot of meat but everyone is equal so dont brag |
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when: classical era during 500 BCE to 500 CE
who/what: emperor of China, organized China into an emperor
significance: created emperial academy, built great wall of china for protection, organized government, learning sytems, class systems, etc. |
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