Neolithic Revolution
1. Location of first city-states
Mesopotamia
2. Reason for specialization of labor
Surplus of food
3. Chose to herd animals instead of settle and farm
Pastoralists
4. First animal domesticated
Dog
Classical Civilizations
1. Theatre state
a. Gupta
2. Alexander will influence the rise of this empire
a. Mauryan
3. Empire that attacks Greece, first at Marathon, then at Thermopylae and Salamis
a. Persia
4. Followed the short lived Qin Dynasty
a. Han
5. This leader will usher in the Hellenistic Age
a. Alexander
Civilizations: Rise and Fall
1. Key reasons for roads
a. Security and trade
2. Consolidating power in a key location
a. Centralization
3. All defeated by this barbarian horde
a. Huns
4. Christianity will create division in this civilization
a. Rome
5. Han wanted to remove power from the landowners so they gave more power to this group
a. Gentry
6. First Roman emperor
a. Caesar Augustus
Civilizations II
1. Given credit with unifying China
Qin
2. Key reason Greek civilization falls
Disunity
3. According to your text, the first real empire
Assyrians
4. Eventually, they will conquer their neighbors, the Egyptions and rule eastern Africa.
Nubians
5. Seen as the greatest threat to classical civilizations
Pastoralists
6. The ruler had been chosen by the supreme deity and would retain his backing as long as he served as a
wise guardian of his people
Mandate of heaven
Belief Systems
1. The path or the way
a. Dao
2. Religion of the Persian Kings
a. Zoroastrianism
3. Spread through eastern and western Europe following the Edict of Milan
a. Christianity
4. Will spread along the Silk routes into China
a. Buddhism
5. Reinforced the caste system
a. Hinduism
6. May have influenced or been influenced by dualism
a. Judaism
7. Key reason for the popularity of Buddhism
a. Escape reincarnation
8. Emphasized a structured system and focused on societal health
a. Confucianism
9. Authoritarian political philosophy instated during the Zhou dynasty
a. legalism
Terms
1. Rule by the few
Oligarchy
2. The “best people” often landholding nobles
Aristocracy
3. Lower class of citizens in Rome
Plebeians
4. When salt from the soil seeps to the surface
Salinization
5. Humans can understand and explain natural occurrences
Humanism
6. The study of disease
Epidemiology
7. The practice of smelting metal
Metallurgy
8. temple structure of the mesopotamians
ziggurat
9. phrase that means “different social classes”
social stratification