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events that happened in the past
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history
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geography
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the study of people, enviroment, and resources for them
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Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
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nomads/hunters always moving and looking for food
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Neolithic (New stone age)
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change from hunting and moving around to settling and gathering/farming food
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cultural diffusion
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the spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one person to another
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someone who studies ways of life of early people by examining their physical remains
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archaeologist
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where did the first cities emerge?
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river valleys (fertile land)
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code of laws to unite Babylon (1st major collection of laws)
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Hammurabi's Code of Law
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first form of picture writing
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hieroglyphics
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linked China to best trade route
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Silk Road
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pharoahs-
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Egyptian rulers believed to be a god
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Egyptians were (religion):
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polytheistic
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a system of rankings to which someone was born and judged upon karma and according to job
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caste system
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two rivers that influenced India and China
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Yangzi and Huang He
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two rivers that influenced India
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Indus and Ganges
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Chinese system of writing (fine handwriting)
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calligraphy
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some achievements of ancient china:
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great wall, texts on science, acupuncture, paper-making
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5 Major Religions:
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Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Confucianism
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1. peninsula isolated by _____
2. many small __________ instead of large valleys
3. seas linked Greeks to outside lands, became sailors to trade with ______ and Spain
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1. mountains
2. city-states
3. Egypt
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What war is this?:
[group of people] conquered Ionia, Ionia rebelled and Athens helped
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Persian War
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Cause of Peloponnesian War:
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Athens had Delian League
Sparta had Peloponnesian League
encouraged different government
war broke out
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Sparta or Athens?
1. Aristocracy, then democracy
2. War, War, and more War
3. rigorous upbringing
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1. Athens
2. Sparta
3. Sparta
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Alexander (son of Philip) expanded land to ____ and ____
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Persia and Asia Minor
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Did rome tolerate conquered lands other religions or did they force them to convert?
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they tolerated as long as they paid taxes
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most language was derived from....
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Latin
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who wrote the greek epic odyssey?
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Homer
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Socrates:
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examined youths answers, never wrote anything down, death sentence at 70 for "corrupting youth"
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fine, windblown yellow soil
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loess
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seasonal wind, mostly India
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leader of Aryan tribes
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monsoon
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rajah
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when you recieve trade
and
when you send trade
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export
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import
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