Chapter 1: Understanding the Past
What are 3 elements of a map?
Possible answers: Legend, Key, Scale, Compass, and Labels
What does Hunter Gatherer mean in regards to early humans?
They survived by employing the strategies of hunting animals and gathering wild plants rather than by planting crops and raising livestock.
Name this Age: the period from 3500 to 1110 BCE when bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the preferred material for manufacturing tools and weapons
The Bronze Age
What is the name of the Greek Historian whom we get most information from the Persians?
Herodotus
A school of philosophical thought that helped dynasties such as the Qin use uniform laws and codes to reform and strengthen rulers
Legalism
What is a primary source?
A document, object, or piece of information created at the time of an event or by someone directly involved in it, serving as original evidence for research
Why did early humans have to migrate often?
They would run out of resources, climate changes, or disease epidemics.
These were the names for Egyptian Rulers.
Pharaohs
This ruler led Old Babylon to its rise as the biggest civilization at the time.
Hammurabi
What is the top level of the Feudal system?
Kings
What is a secondary source?
A work that analyzes, interprets, or summarizes information from primary sources, which are materials from the time period or event being studied
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
The development of agriculture allowed humans stayed in one place. Societies began to function how we see them today.
The following description applies to which ancient civilization: This civilization was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates river. They created the wheel, weaving loom, and began an urban revolution. Their society functioned with kings on top, then nobility and priests, then wealthy merchants, military officals and scribes, and finally peasants on the bottom.
Ancient Mesopotamia.
What does Herodotus tell us about the ways Persians adopt foreign customs?
They dress like the Meses, wear Egyptian armour, take luxury from the Greeks, have several wives.
This dynasty created paper, the compass, and sundials.
The Han dynasty
This word means ideas such as class and gender created and accepted by the people in a society that influence the way they think and behave: name the vocabulary word.
Social Constructs
What are some similarities between the Neolithic revolution and today? (3)
More time for leisurely activites
More suseptable to diseases
more dependent upon weather
Much larger populations
Could begin specialized jobs
Men and women gender roles emerged
Religion became more specified
Home were built of long lasting materials (brick)
This civilization relied heavily on agriculture thanks to its thick, rich soil with access to lots of water.
The Indus Valley
Which Civilization became the biggest before the rise of the Roman Empire?
The Persian Empire
A vast network of overland and maritime trade routes that connected the East and West for centuries, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas between civilizations like China, the Roman Empire, and those in between
Define a global citizen?
a person who sees themselves as responsible to a world community rather than only a national one
What were the names (3) of the tools early humans used? How did they use them?
Oldowan, Archeulan, and Mousterian. They were peices of stone they slowly changed over time to become sharper and were used as sort of hand axes.
This was a complex writing system developed around 3000 BCE in which written symbols represented both sounds and ideas.
Hierogylphics
Why did the Hittites empire only last 50 years?
The collapse coincided with widespread regional famine, epidemic disease, war, and waves of destructive migrations across the eastern Mediterranean.
What are 3 main elements to the Eurasian Steppe culture/way of life?
They were nomads, they had great influence over the silk road, they lived in clans and spoke diverse languages, they often were either trading or fighting against China, etc.