Initial Activity

1. Initial Activity • With a friend or on your own try an answer as many identifications as possible.

2. Mr. Kullman’s Midterm Review

3. What is geography Is defined by its five themes • Location • Regions • Place • Movement • Human-Environment Interactions

4. What is a Peninsula • Area of land surrounded by water on 3 sides • Give examples

5. What is an Artifact? • A man made object

6. Describe a time line • To Show chronological order of events

7. What is an Archaeologist • People who study the physical artifacts of a culture

8. Opinion vs Fact • Opinion used words such as: better, horrible, worst, best, scary, awesome, evil, good. • Fact: Numbers, There are, There is, exactly, total, He did_____ on this date.

9. What is an Anthropologist • People study the Development of early human beings • Look at the culture over the physical

10. Examples of Primary Source • Eyewitness statement/Interview • Document • Autobiography • News Paper

11. What is a monsoon • A strong wind • Who has monsoons? • India

12. Barrier between China and India • Mountains and Deserts

13. Which civilizations grew up along rivers?Name the Rivers • Egypt-Nile • Sumer-tigris and Euphrates • China-Yellow (Hung-he) and Yangtze • Rome- Tibir • India-Indus

14. Neolithic Revolution • New Stonage • Beginning of Farming • Begginning of Permanent settlements • Begininning of City/Civilizations

15. Where and Who did Mary leaky discover? • Always think………… • AFRICA • Great rift valley

16. Where did humans first appear? • Africa • Sometimes the answer can be fertile crescent which touches Africa as well

17. Neolithic vs Paleolithic • Farmers • Larger numbers • Hunters and Gatherers • Smaller numbers New Stone Age Old Stone Age

18. What are the Ten Commandments • Moral and legal code of the Hebrews

19. What is the Edict of Asoka • Allowed freedom of religion in India • Allowed Buddhism

20. What are the Codes of Hammurabi • Legal code of Sumer and the Babylonian Empire

21. What are the 12 Tables • Legal code of the Romans

22. What is the caste system of India • Social structure you are born into • Started by the aryans • Also part of Hinduism • Can only move up when you are reincarnated

23. What was the Maurya Empire • India’s Greatest Empire

24. What was the Qin Dynasty • First real Dynasty of China • First emperor • Shi-hundi • United China

25. Describe Ancient Greece • Collection of city-states • Divided due to geography • Athens-Democracy • Sparta-Oligarchy

26. Describe Babylonian Empire • Established Hammurabi's code • Fell to the Persians • Had a Barter economy

27. Describe Egyptian Empire

28. What was the epic of Gilgamesh • First Epic, written in sumer (similar to Noahs ark)

29. What was the odyssey • Greek Epic written by homer, tells the story of the Trojan war

30. The Mahabharata • India Epic tells the story of a prince who looses his wife and finds her.

31. Who were the first civilizations to write? • Sumer • Akkad • Sumer • Babylon • Hitties • Assaryans • Babylon • Persia • Egypt • India • China • Greece • Rome

32. What was the Mandate of Heaven? • The belief that a Dynasty actions gave them the right to rule. • They do poor job, they lose their right to rule

33. Describe confucianism • Social order is the highest ideal • Based on respect and the 5 relationships • King-Subject, Husband-wife, Brother-younger brother, Parent-Child, friend-friend

34. What was the Silk Road • Road from China to Europe • Broke the barrier caused by the mountains and desert

35. Describe Athens Government • Direct-democracy

36. Describe Spartas government? • Oligarchy

37. Compare and contrast Athens to sparta • Individual over state • Creativity and the arts • State before the individual • Military no creativity Direct-Democracy Oligarchy

38. What was Alexander the Great’s impact • United cultures from all over the know world • Cultural Diffusion

39. Why couldn’t greece unify? • Mountains geography

40. Describe hindu beliefs? • Caste system born into it

41. What is the Caste System? • Brahmins (preists) • Kshatriyas(warriors) • Vaisyas (Merchants) • Sudras (servants, Slaves)

42. What and who believe in reincarnation • Hindu’s and Buddhists • The act of coming back to life after death.

43. Describe Buddhism • 8 fold path • Tripitkka (3 Baskets)

44. Describe Judaism

45. 12 Tables • Roman Laws that governed all Romans • Similar to 10 Commandments, Hammurabi’s Code and Justinian’s Code.

46. Roman Control of the Mediterranean • This allowed Rome to become an Empire and gain various resources from trade and land.

47. Rome’s geography • Rome being a peninsula in the middle of the Mediterranean sea allowed it to be the center of all trade.

48. Centralized governments • Creates powerful and stabalized civilizations. • Weak ones cause dissorder and confusion.

49. Branches of Christianity • Has roots in Judaism • An ethical code and is monotheistic • Roman Catholic Church • Protestant Religions • Baptists, Calvinists, Huguenots, etc. • Eastern Orthodox • Greek and Russian Orthodox • Coptic (Egypt)