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World History Final A
Fun Facts about Corinth, Greece
What does Egypt do?
World History Final A
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What does Egypt do?
Offers fertilization
Nile floods once a year
Created the calender to keep track of the nile
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Fun Facts about Corinth, Greece
It was the first city
built with paved stone ramps
Everyone fought due to food shortages
Athen's found Silver
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What happended after middle egypt?
Ramses ll became leader
Built a large empire which reached the Euphrates River
Egypt drove out enimies
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What did the Phoencicans do?
Created an alphabet with only consontants.
helped control cities
Invented purple dye
Spread middle eastern culture
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Fun Facts about the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)
Ummmm.... that's all folks?
Created the great wall
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What did Darius do?
Introduced a uniform system and built roads to the territories.
Divided up territories and placed a governer
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Fun Facts about the Hellenistic Era (323-30 BC)
Had a libary and research center
Had mixed Cultures
One main culture center was Ptolemaic Egypt in Alexandria
Affected the Mediterranean, Asiatic and Egyptian Regions
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Fun Facts about Alexander the great.
Created the Phalanx (Large Spears)
Fought the Thracians, gaining gold mines and used Cultural Diffusion
Macedonian's wanted to emulate Greek Culture, Greeks didn't like that.
Macedon is North of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, they copied greece.
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Fun Facts about Alexander's Legacy
His land was split between the generals.
All of his generals fought for the land
They named 20 cities after him
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What was the Vedic Age?
Weren't written down until 500 BC
Had "Books of knowledge" and religious literary works.
Were the most sacred texts of hinduism
revealed Aryan beliefs
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Fun Facts about the Athenian Classical Period
Persia went to war with Athens and the lonians, Athenians won.
Persia was the most powerful at the time
"Peloponnesian war"
Had the Greco-Persian Wars and Athens vs Sparta
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Where was the Mesopotamia Civilization located?
Nile River
Yangtze River
Indus River
Tigris and Euphrates River System
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Background for Indus River Valley Civiliations
Major Cities: Monenjo-Daro, and Harappa
Located in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, studied in 1920.
Indus River flood and fertilized crops
India was called a subcontinent.
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Where was Ancient India located
Tigris and Euphrates River system
Indus River
Nile River
Yangtze River
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Where were the first River Valleys?
Africa and Asia
Europe
Asia
North America
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Fun Facts about Ancient China
Boardered by the Taklama desert
Isolated from Asia due to the Gobi desert and Himalayas
developed fertile plain between the yellow and yangtze river
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What does Babylon have?
first to have civil and criminal laws, along with a government.
they used their wealth to build for the gods.
known for Siac, wealth and cosmopolitan nature
Power over Akkad and Ancient Sumer
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Facts about Roman Mythology and religion
Zoroastrianism (1st Monotheistic religion)
caused development of other religions
Gave them latin names
Polytheistis
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What did the river do for the Early Civilizations?
Was a source for food
Helped create the first transportation
Created a population boom
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Where was Ancient China located?
China
Yangtze River
Indus River
Nile River
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Fun Facts about Rome (264 BC- 146 BC)
Rome wanted the ports
Fought the Carthaginians
They gained land through the punic wars
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Fun Facts about Classical Rome
Ruled by kings
Had a republic
replaced by a senate made of Consuls, patricians and tribunes
They got everything from the greeks
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Fun Facts about Archaic Greece (750 BC- 490 BC)
Had the Sparta and Athen's polis, had governments and laws
Created polis (Greek political until made of citizens)
Solon created Athenian Democracy- Sparta had a oligarachic system (few lead
Led to lots of conflicts.
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Where was the Egyptian Civilization located?
Yangtze River
Indus River
Tigris and Euphrates river system
The Nile River
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What was Ishtar's gate?
117- If you can not pay debt, sell your kids.
229- If the a houseowner dies from the house falling, the builder dies to.
195- If a boys slaps his dad, he loses his hands.
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Fun Facts about the Chinese Dynasties
Developed and centralized government
Ruled by the Shang Dynasty (1532-1027 BC), the first dynasty.
worked on metallurgy, and were polytheistic, priests used oracle bones.
Governed china, all belonged in one family
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More Facts about New Leadership
Everything went to hell and burned down.
Octavian became king, changed his name to Augustus
Rome fell in 476 AD
Pax Romana, ended with cruel emporeres
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Fun Facts about Ancient Greece!!
Developed into city-states
Located on Islands in the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea.
trading was focused on the Peloponnesian Isthmus
Was mountainous, not good for farming, relied on maritime trade.
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Fun facts about Monenjo-Dara and Harappa?
first to use pottery
First to use indoor plumbing
Had toilets, drainage systems, and granaries, but no temples or palaces.
Was abandoned and disapperared.
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What is the perks of Mesopotamia?
emerged independetly
developed drainage ditches
It is the "Cradle of Civilization"
The citizen's figured out irragation
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What did the Verdic Age include?
The Caste System
Ramayana (Love and Betrayal)
Mahabharata (Fight for Ganges River)
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Fun Facts about Minoan
Lived on the island of crete
collapsed due to natural disasters
Developed the first english writing system, Linear A
was from 2000 to 1500 BC
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What did Middle Egypt do?
People led revolts
Nile became less consistent.
Ended when foreign armies invaded
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Facts about Rome's policies
Rome had slaves
Women could not vote or hold public office
but they could own property, practice business, and obtain a divorce.
citizenship allowed certain people legal protection, the right to vote
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Fun Facts about the new leadership
triumvirate formed with Marcus, Julius and Pompeius. Ended when Marcus die
Plebeians weren't happy
Caesar became dictator and died
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What was Sumer?
Houses the Ziggurat. Along with ur, uruk, larga, Eridu and kish
Work gangs that opperated irragation
Made of temple communities, administered by priests.
Fields that were owned by gods, rented out or rewarded.
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Fun Facts about the Zhou Dynasty (1027- 256 BC)
Rule- If bad stuff happened to China, the leader was replaced.
Created the Mandate of Heaven
Rule- the right to rule a dynasty was granted by the gods.
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Where does Mesopotamia lie?
Fertile Crescent
The Gaza Strip
Egypt
Ancient China
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What did old Egypt do?
Built the pyramids
pharaoh's ruled
fell due to struggles for power, failing crops
tombs made of limestone
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Fun Facts about Alexander's youth
Used catapults
Aristotle was his mentor
He conquered Persia, Asia, India and Egypt
His father was assassinated
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What did Cryus the great do?
Persia, led by Cryus the great invaded
Released the Jewish slaves in babylon and allowed them freedom.
created religious tolerance
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Fun Facts about the Dark Ages (1150-750 BC)
Used the Phoenician alphabet to make a gra=eece one, led to poems.
Had political and economic disintegration
trade decilined, famine struck, 700 BC: people could write
small communties had a Basileus (leader)
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Fun Facts about the Peloponnesian wars (431- 404 BC)
Sparta vs Athens, went for 30 years, Sparta won
Ended when Lysander, a general, starved Athens
They created a treaty but Athens resisted, Persia teamed up with Sparta
Scarlet fever killed off 25% of the Athen Army
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Fun Facts about Mycenaean (1600-1100 BC)
Had a palace economy
Created Linear B, but the people couldn't write
Came from mainland greece, was the most advanced and more war-like
took a lot of land and divided it into kingdoms led by a monarch
