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Global Midterm Project. By Julie Apuzzo and Johanna Cohen. 3 Million Years Ago-Present. Australopithecines, homo habilis, homo erectus, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons are our ancestors Neolithic Revolution was the agricultural revolution. Fertile Crescent.
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Global Midterm Project By Julie Apuzzo and Johanna Cohen
3 Million Years Ago-Present Australopithecines, homo habilis, homo erectus, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons are our ancestors Neolithic Revolution was the agricultural revolution
Fertile Crescent • Located in between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers • Was home to the Mesopotamia and Sumer civilizations
Hammurabi’s Code • First set of written laws; eye for an eye • Laws were put into place when Sumer was conquered
Egypt • Egypt is “Gift of the Nile” • Narmer united upper and lower Egypt • Believed in theocracy
Indus Valley Civilization • Located on the Indus River • Had Monsoons • Used Urban planning
River Valley China • Located on yellow river • Loess (yellow silt from river) • Mandate of Heaven • Feudalism • Dynastic Cycle
Hinduism • Started with nomads in the Indus Valley (1500 B.C.) • Caste System
Buddhism • Started by Siddhartha Gutama of India • Believed in four noble truths • Wanted Nirvana
Christianity and Judaism • Christianity derived from Judaism • Constantine of Rome accepted Christianity • Monotheistic
Daoism/Taoism – harmony with nature • Animism – belief that all things have a soul
Philosophers of Greece – Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle • Peloponnesian Wars – between Athens and Sparta • Devian League – Greek city-states united to defeat Persia • Greece was a democracy
Alexander The Great • From Macedonia • Conquers and unites Greece, Egypt, Persia, and part of India • Hellenistic Culture
Punic Wars • Between Hannibal of Carthage and Rome • Rome won
Roman Republic • 12 tables – written laws • Patricians – wealthy land owners • Plebeians – poor farmers • 3 branches
Fall of the Republic • Falls mainly because of rich and poor gap, and corruption in the government • Last consul was Julius Caesar
Roman Empire • Pax Romana • Started by Augustus • Diocletian divided the empire • Fell for same reasons as republic
Byzantine • East part of former Roman empire • Preserved Roman culture • Justinian and Theodora
Mauryan Empire • United Northern India for the first time • Asoka promoted religious tolerance • Chandragupta Mauryan was first emperor
Guptan Empire • Had India’s Golden Age • Made many advanced discoveries, like the value of pi
Han Dynasty • Lui Bang, Wudi and Wand Bang • Confucianism • Had many monopolies
By Julie Apuzzo and Johanna Cohen Global 1A Midterm Review