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10th Grade
05/30/2008

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Term

 

 

Neolithic Age

Definition

-New stone age

-Agrarian (farming) Revolution

  • grow crops, domesticate animals
  • Subsistence Farming
  • Growing only what you need
Term

River Valley Civilizations

 

Definition

-Farming leads to

  • Food surplus leads to
  • population growth
  • people can do things instead of getting food

 

-Cities

  • end of nomadic life- people stop moving around looking for food
  • People live together to share resources

-Governments

  • Created to manage resourses and people

 

Term

 

Civilization

Features of civilization

Definition

-People

-Surplus Food

Military- Sex Roles ( men out of home), Patriarchy (male dominated)

-Jobs- Priests, artists, ect.

-Education- Priests as scribes

-Cities-

   Ex. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in India (planned cities)

-Art

-Religion

  • Polytheistic

-Trade

Term
Cradles of Civilization
Definition

-Places where civilization begins

-Mesopotamia

  • Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
  • Iraq

-Nile River

  • Eqypt

-Huang He River

  • Also known as Yellow River
  • China

Indus River

  • India

ALL ARE RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

Term

Writing

Definition

Pictograph- Pictures

Hieroglyphics- Egypt (Rosetta Stone)

Cuneiform- Wedges (mesopotamia)

Sanskrit (india)

Alphabet- Phoenicians

Scribes- Writers

Term
Golden Age
Definition

-Period of time that has peace and prosperity (wealth)

-Allows for development of art, architecture, literature, science, trade

 

-Examples

  • Song and Tang Dynasties in china
  • Hellenistic Greece
  • Gupta Dynasty in India
  • Muslim Golden Age
  • Pax Romana (Roman Empire)
Term
Ancient China- Geography
Definition

-River Valley Civilization-Huang He (Yellow River)

  • Loess (yellowish silt) makes fertile soil
  • Helps farming

 

-Surrounded by mountains, desert and jungle

  • Protects China from invaders
  • Allows development of homogeneous culture
    • led to ethnocentrism (beleif their culture is the best) and xenophobia (fear of outsiders)
Term
Ancient China- Dynastic Cycle
Definition

-Dynastic Cycle

  • Cycle of the rise and fall of ruling families in china

-Mandate of Heaven

  • Ruling family has the right to rule from heaven (divine right of kings)
  • Dynasties have peace, prosperity, success when they have the ,andate
  • Imperialism
    • Increase size of china by taking over neighbors
  • Kowtow-Tribute
    • Bowing low to emperor and payment as an offering of respect
Term
Ancient China- Culture
Definition

-Ancestor Worship

  • Beleif that ancestors communicate with gods on behalf of people on earth.

-Yin/Yang Symbol

  • Beleif that good and evil must be balanced in individuals and the earth
Term

Ancient China- Philosophies

 

Definition

-Legalism

  • Shi Huang di- First Emperor
  • Built Great Wall
  • Strict Punishments
  • Need of society more important than individual

-Daoism

  • Follow nature
  • People are good so no need for strict rules
  • Daoist Inventions- sundial, block printing
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