First semester
The shift from hunting of animals and gathering food of to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC
The Neolithic Revolution
Transportation of enslaved West African People across the Sahara Desert to be sold in Islamic North Africa
Trans-Saharan Salve Trade
How did Toussaint L'ouverture help win independence?
Helped in Hati by shifting the power to favor the enslaved people and overthrow internal resistance.
Name a Negative of commercialization
Families abandoned subsistence farming to move to crop selling, a reliance on others, increased forced labor, and encomienda system (bad treatment of slaves/prisoners)
What is Kevin Poland's Middle name?
Dale
What do paper making, sericulture, the compass, gunpowder and the printing press all have in common?
They were all invented in China
Name one way the Americas were different than AfroEurAsia from 1200-1450
The different powers rarely came in conflict, Americas faced harsh terrain and N/S travel opposed to E/W travel.
Who was Napolean Bonapart and what did he do?
Tamed the violence in the French Revolution and ended feudalism (for a bit)
What does M.A.I.N. stand for?
What is one of Molly's middle names?
Molly ginger cinnamon butterscotch bailey Brenneman
Conquest of Constantinople 1453 (The fall of Constantinople)
How was the Incan Empire supported by Agriculture?
The Storming of Bastille
Mein Kampf
Hitler's autobiography outlining his reasons for hating Jews
Which part of the human body produces insulin?
Pancreas
Order these hierarchically:
Royal family, military elite and religious officials, free peasants, artisans and merchants, enslaved peoples
Royalty, merchant and artisans, military elite and religious officials, free peasants, enslaved people
What religion uses the four noble truths?
Buddhism
Describe the Middle Passage
Slave ship trading pathway, dark, inhumane, cages, little food, prisoners chained
Nurembrug Laws
Forbidding marriage or sexual relations between Germans and Jews, Jews no longer considered citizens
How much more lily are giraffes to get struck by lightening than humans?
30x more likely
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
The Fertile Cresent
A set of rigid social categories in India that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society
Caste System
A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mandate of Heaven
- Founder of Buddism
- Born a prince
- Left his father's wealth to find the cause of human
suffering
- Known as the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
How many escalators are in the state of Wyoming?
2