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world history exam review
ms. ahrens semester 2 exam
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History
9th Grade
05/27/2008

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the big headed archaeologist who discovered Lucy
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Donald Johanson

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Australopithecus afarensis

best known prehistoric indicidual

4.5 billion years ago

Hadar, Ethiopia

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Lucy
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southern dwelling ape

4.5 billion years ago

first to walk upright

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Australopithecus afarensis
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standing or moving on two legs, two feets
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bipedal
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started in beolithic era

depended on bounty of nature: sometimes resulted in drought, famine, disease, floods, and extreme temperatures

sought a way to ensure themselves of a regular food supply

woman most likely started the systematic care of plants

men stalked and captured animals/domesticated

Definition
hunter-gatherer vs. farming
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features of civilization

cats can crawl anywhere with just some pretty treacherous claws

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cities

complext religion

centralized government

art and architecture

writing

job specialization

social classes

public works

technology

cultural diffusion

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feature of civilization

major settlements of 20,000 + inhabitants with specific areas for residence, worship, government activity, and defenses

 

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cities
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FOC

evidence of special places, rituals, special words, prayers, designated leadership, named gods and donations

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complex religion
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foc

evidence that someone or some group was in charge of the ocmmunity directed public efforts and collected tribute taxes from iniciduals which is later distributed on behalf of the community

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centralized government
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FOC

evidence of artifacts created for their appearance specially created for their appearance/beauty or usefulness in rituals. also evidence of specialized construction styles, of buildings of monumental size, or of buildings created to serve a special purpose

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art and architexture
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FOC

evidence of pictographs, ideograms, or a written symbolic language--either on aper or in stone or in clay

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writing
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FOC

evidence that individuals were farmers, specialized in a crafy or as merchants, may include evidence of specialty items like jewelry

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job specialization
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FOC

evidence that some people had more power or prestige in the community; large and small houses, jewelry, more or less accumulated goods, houses close to the city center versus far awa

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social classes
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FOC

evidence of large scale constructions requiring combined group effort and of sufficient complexity as to require leadership; city defenses, agricultural endeavors like irrigation ditches, or communal buildings.

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public works
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FOC

evidence of specialized production skills for use in the community in business, construction, or art

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technology
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FOC

evidence of contact with distant peoples either through warfar, trade, or exchange of ideas

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cultural diffusion
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ganges and indus-->used for transportation, irrigation, and daily use
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India
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huang he(yellow river)-->most prosperous region of chinese civilization, flooded a lot, good siol, transportation "China's Sorrow"

Yangzi River (Chang Jiang)-->used for agriculture and transportation

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China
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Nile-->guaranteed food supply, irrigation systems, basically life supply of Egytians, transportation
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Egypt
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Tigris and Euohrates-->food, transportation, irrigation, water
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Sumer
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Lex Talionis-Law is the rule, an eye for an eye, fair

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Hammurabi

Code of Hammurabi

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Codified laws of many peoples into one Imperial system for all
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Darius
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buddhism (peaceful), very great emperor
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Asoka
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introduced legalism and unified China (Qin emperor)
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Ying Zheng
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was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law' earliest attempt of Romans to create a Code of Law
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Rome's 12 tables

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the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the byzantine emperor ustinian I; unwritten laws based on custom and usage
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justinian
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good claim to be the founder of english common law
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henry II
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king of babylon, law called talionis, maintained civilization for 2000 years
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Hammurabi
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king of akkad, creates first mesopotamian empire in 2300 BC made his daughter Enheduanna, preistess
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Sargon
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first and last woman pharaoh of Egypt, took tutle of Pharaoh, changed egypt from patriaarchy rule to matriarchy rule, traded with exotic punt, oversaw construction of many obelisks
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hatshepsut
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king of assyria, could read and write, very good military skills, made first library
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assurbanipal
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king of uruk, drank a lot, goal was to achieve immortality repented for sins
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gilgamesh
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ancient mesopotamian city, one of earliest known civilizations, ziggurats
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Ur
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ancient sumerian and babylonian city, one of world's first cities was dense population
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uruk
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ancient mesopotamian cit, holy city, hanging gardens
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babylon
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one of capitols of assyria, cuneiform texts discovered there
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assur
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important assyian city, magnificent city, greatness was shortlived
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nineveh
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phoenician city, has major port, purple dye, cedar trees
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tyre
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one of the oldest cities in the world, holiest city for Judaism
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jerusalem
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built by nebuchadneszzar for his wife, amytis of media, who was longing for the trees and gragrance of her homeland
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hanging gardens
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were such a threat in the year 12oo with iron' ramses ii made a pact with them (oldest treat) so they would not attack them

hittites died of small pox

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iron-hittites of asia minor
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the wheel

attacked and ruled egypt for 150 years, didnt change much

were able to attack egypt because had horses and horse drawn chariots the wheel and broze weapontry

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hyskos
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built by sumerians, has the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories or levels; used as shrines for gods
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ziggurat
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a 3-dimensional structure where the upper surfaces are triangular and converge and one point used as burial chambers for pharoahs
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pyramids
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an affirmation of judaism and a declarartion of faith in one god; said twice a day
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shema
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the gods sent the flood, last 7 days, sent because gods are mad at the war god cause he won't let the people back into the ciry, the ark builder gets eternal life, dove, swallow, and raven found the land
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utnapishtim
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who cut holofernes head off which was a major reason why the israelites won againts the assyrians

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judith
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the great step pyramid at saqqara

built by king djoser

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saqqara pyramid
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the purpose is to preserve a dead body so they can live in afterlife
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mummification
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body washed and good smelling

liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines are taken out and put in canopic jars

brain is pulled out through the nose

body is covered and stuff with natron for 40 days

Definition

body is washed again and covered with oil

stuffed with sawdust and covered with oil again

wrapped with linen and placed with the book of the dead

then body is put into coffin and then another sarcophagus

 

Term

you can come back and live in your name, body, or pictures

heaven-happy field of food

hell-crocodile shaped eater of the dead

 

Definition
egyptian beliefs of afterlife
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natural boundaries of egpyt
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north-mediterranean sea

east and west-red land (desert) libyan and sahara

south-cataracts

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who was in the story where the brother killed the husband and the wife went and found each piece of the husband
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osiris, seth, and isis
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united as sun god of north and stouh (lower and upper egypt) into a national deity
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amon and re
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made new god = the sun's disk and developed monotheism
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aten and akhenaten
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kingdom of kush

lived next to the nile from aswan to khartoum in the south

are enemies with egypt

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nubians
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conquered babylon, medes, lydia, and baetria

 

Definition
cyrus in persia
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defeated by greeks (battles of salamis and plataea)

 

Definition

xerxes in persia

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conquered and expanded territory, stellar administration, centralization, new capitol, bureaucracu, satraps govern satrapies, imperial spies, standardized tazes and codified laws, royal road, courier system, tolerance and respect for customs and religions, good trade economy
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darius
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scythian queen kills cyrus because he killed her son

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queen tomyris
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expands kingdom then becomes a monk and led an ascetic life

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chandragupta
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conquered kalinga (100,000 died) it changed his heart, he became buddhist and a good emperor
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asoka
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destroyer god
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shiva

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wife of shive, female power
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shakti
Term
granter of wishes
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baby ganesha
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universal soul inside each person; belief of the physical world being a theater of change, instability and illusion
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brahma
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the creator god
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vishnu
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hindu practice of wife burning herself on funeral pyre after husbands death unless high enough importance to escape
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sati

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money or gift from wife's fmaily in compensation for them taking their daughter; wife's family pays for wedding today
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dowry
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a form of sical organization in which the father is the supreme authorit in the famil, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe
Definition
patriarchy
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example of houses today; if women stay where their husbands tell them, they will always be safe
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magic circle of safety
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belief that your soul comes back to life in another form
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reincarnation
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good work on earth that results in being in a higher social status
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dharma
Term
good or bad luck as a result of your actions
Definition
karma
Term
heaven after perfecting life; deep, endless sleep after reincarnation
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moksha/nirvana
Term

life means suffering

the origin of suffering is unattachment

the cessation of suffering in unattainable

there is a path to the cessation of suffering

Definition
four noble truths
Term

right view

right intention

right speech

right action

right livelihood

right effot

right mindfulness

right concentration

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eight fold path
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high preist
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vizier
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spoke to gods
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brahmin
Term
warriors
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kshatrya
Term
kept economy running
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vaisyas
Term
laborers
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shudras
Term
untouchables
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out-castes
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china boundaries
Definition

gobi desert

himalayas

east china sea

kunlun mountains

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india boundaries

Definition

himalayas

laccadive sea

bay of bengal

arabian sea

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being a character of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient sumerian
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cuneiform
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of, relating to, or being a system of writing, such as that of ancient egypt in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination
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hieroglyphics
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an ancient indic language that is the language of hinduism and the vedas and is the classical literary language of india
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sanskrit
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animals bones with instruments used by fortune-tellers in ancient china; inscribed a question, put in heat, and then the cracks were used to answer
Definition
oracle bones
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a document granting the right to govern to a deserving indicidual known as the son of heaven
Definition
mandate of heaven
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