Holocene
Dates
Ancient Civilizations
Extra Vocab
Little Ice Age
100

What year did the Holocene begin?

What is 11,700?

100

The year Christopher Columbus left for the Americas.

What is 1492?

100

This concept assumed that external conditions such as prosperity in the land and favorable weather validated the authority of the emperor

What is the mandate of heaven?

100

A political system in which states of companies establish control over natural resources and people in distant lands.

What is colonialism?

100

Due to temperatures in this region the Spanish, English and French failed to colonize this region.

What is Florida?

200

What year did the Late Holocene start?

4,250 years or 2250 BCE?

200

The year marked as the Worst Year to Be Alive?

What is 536 c.e.?

200

This region became home to the Old Kingdom

What is Egypt?

200

A warm period between ice ages

What is an interglacial period?

200

A cold spell in Europe caused Spanish and English citizens to react in what differing way? (they reacted differently)

Did the Spanish stay in Spain while the English left for North America?

300

In 6200 BCE glaciers in Canada collapsed which accelerated the flow of ciy water into the ocean. Also know was the "meltwater event"

What is the Laurentide Ice Sheet?

300

The peak of Rome's power?

What is 150 BCE to 250 CE?

300

A Greek king from Macedonia who conquered Egypt and Persia

Who is Alexander the Great?

300

Period of lower solar activity identifed by a lack of sunspots.

What is a solar minima?

300

This region in Afria experienced drying events around 1600 as well as from 1800 to 1850. 

What is the Sahel region?

400

Another name for the Early, Middle and Late Holocene. 

What is the Greenlandian Stage, Northgrippian Stage, and Meghalayan Stage?

400

Years that marked the beginning and end of the Little Ice Age.

What is 1300 to 1850 CE?

400

Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers this empire lasted from 2334 BCE to 2218 BCE.

What is the Akkadian Empire?

400

Around 7,300 ago (or about 5300 - 3700 BCE) temperatures began to decline due to weakened solar energy.

What is the Mid-Holocene Transition?
400

Traditional narative of modernization in Europe. (talking about 4 stages not including Industrial Revolution)

Renaissance - humans centered themselves, Middle Ages - superstition, Scientific Revolution - science overcame superstition, Englightenment - everything placed to make democratic modern society

500

What was the ice core that was found in Greenland and marked the beginning of the Early Holocene?

What is NGRIP2?

500

Years the Late Harappan phase lasted between (beginning and end)

What is 1900 BCE to 1000 BCE?

500

These societies resided in the Americas (there are 5)

What is the Chavin, Olmec, Inca Empire, Maya, and the Aztecs?

500

Roughly 4,250 years ago abrupt changes in atmopshereric and oceanic conditons led to sudden changes in weather conditons around the world.

What is the Holocene Turnover?

500

Names of the phrases of the Little Ice Age (there a 3).

What is the Wolf minimum, Maunder minimum, and Dalton minimum?