Humans and the Environment
This was the time where agricultural societies had extended families that grew into clans
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The Latin alphabet emerged out of their dialect
Who are Phoenicians?
This established high standards of behavior and stern punishments
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This Empire controlled fertile land in Mesopotamia; agriculture was the foundation of the this economy
What is the Persian Empire?
The society that made men in charge
What is a Patriarchal Society?
This society was located in present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador; they ruled from c. 300-900 C.E
Who was the Mayan Civilization?
This city was built in central Mexico; developed agriculture by 500 B.C.E
What is Teotihuacan?
Legalism helped the state of Qin to gain control and unify China
What are the Warring States?
It was controlled by wealthy elites, conquered by the Roman Empire, and you could trade through this
What is the Mediterranean?
There was the clergy, nobles, and aristocratic women
What is the Feudal Society, Europe?
Traveled from Italy to China during Mongol times
Who is Marco Polo?
In 610 C.E, he claimed that he was the last prophet of Allah
Who is Muhammad?
After this came the Tang and the Song
What is the Sui Dynasty?
This was the dominant trade network in the post-classical period. WATCH OUT MONSOON!
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Their revolt protested higher taxes and nobles demanded more grain production in the Byzantine Empire
What is the Free Peasant Revolt?
In the fourteenth century, since the change in global weather, this led to a shorter growing season
What is the Little Ice Age?
This belief system was founded by Guru Nanak. It blended elements from Hinduism and Islam into a single faith
What is Sikhism?
This is where the trading of goods took place and resulted in European control of trade routes. Vasco da Gama built one in Calicut
What is the Trading Post Empires?
A new network of trade that was controlled by Western European trading companies, but was brought together by Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is the Atlantic System?
A system of this type of labor in Europe that promised to work a certain amount of time in exchange for their passage to the New World
What is Indentured Labor?
This was built through the Isthmus of Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
Also known as the Age of Reason. In Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, thinkers began to reject traditional ideas and apply reason and nature to government
What is the Enlightment?
The thirteen British colonies in North America wanted to seek independence from the crown and it resulted in this
What is the American Revolution?
Technological innovations in the 1700s led to this and the mass production of goods using machine power
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This location is where the first women's rights convention was held in the United States
What is Seneca Falls?