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World History 1
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Undergraduate 4
10/26/2011

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Sumer
Definition

Who/What: Region

Where: Mesopotamia

Approx. When: River Valley Civ. Era

Significance: Early center of civilization in the Middle East, contained numerous city-states 

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Cuneiform
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Who/What: Souternmost part of Mesopotamia

Where: Sumer

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Significance: First establishment of writing system, unifies sumerians by making cummunication easier

 

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Hammurabi's code
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Who/What: Law Code

Where: Egypt

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Significance: "eye for an eye", first law code

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Akhenaton

(Amenhotep)

Definition

Who/What: Pharoah

Where: Egypt

Approx. When: 1367-1350

Significance: Started his own religion from polythestic to monotheistic= massive Shift in history. 1 god not in physical form. Aton disk of the sun 1 god universal female and male

 

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Myceneae
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Who/What: Warrior People city

Where: Greece

Approx. When: Bronze Age

Significance: People of the Illiad (war against trojans) who conquered troy, one of the frist civilizations, [cylopeans walls were huge walls that protected the city]

 

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Agora
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Who/What: Acropolis

Where: The Polis Greece

Approx. When: Golden Age

Significance: Place where the warrior assembly met, political center of the Polis

 

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Hoplite Phalanx
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Who/What: Spartans- Heavily armed infantrymen

Where: Sparta

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: Make the Spartans an almost undefeatable backbone of greek army

 

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Thermopylae
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Tyrant
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Who/What: Person

Where: Greece

Approx. When: Archaic Era

Significance: Person who attains power in a unothodox or unconstitutional manner and who exercises it, one man rule, seize power

 

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Herodotus
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Hippocrates
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Ostracism
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Who/What: Action Law

Where: Athens, Greece

Approx. When: Golden Age

Significance: vote once a year, kicks someone out of Athens= prevent tyranny from happening (no one can get to popular or disliked, becuase they'd get kicked out)

 

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Pericles
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Who/What: Lead the delian league

Where: Athens, Greece

Approx. When: Classical Era

Significance: Formed the peloponnesian war by being aggressive and powerful

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Aryan
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Who/What: Civilization

Where: India

Approx. When: Indus River/Yellow River

Significance: developed caste system/ vedas social divisions: warrior, priest, commoners, aryans vs. dasas

 

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Hyksos
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Who/What: Civilization

Where: Mesopotamia

Approx. When: Bronze age

Significance: invaded Egypt addimilated the bronze age

 

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Covenant
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Who/What: Sacred Promise

Where: Egypt

Approx. When: Judaism

Significance: Sacred promise between two parties, convenants: noah, abraham, moses

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Zealots
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Who/What: Jesuits

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Approx. When: 1st cent

Significance: Terrorism to end Roman control

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Torah
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Who/What: Jewish Law

Where: Egypt

Approx. When: Judaism (5500 yrs ago)

Significance: first five books of the hebrew bible

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Epic of

Gilgamesh

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Zoroaster
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The Royal Road
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Who/What: Persian Kings

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Significance: The Persian system of roads that linked to the empire

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Catal Huyuk
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Who/What: Civilization

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Approx. When: Neolithic

Significance: Uniformed housing, first civilization

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Rigveda
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Jati
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Who/What: Hindu Caste System

Where: India

Approx. When: River Valley Civilization/ Yellow Indus River

Significance:Divided people into 4 divison classes which became the caste system priest warriors farmers farmer workers

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Asceticism
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Who/What: Jains/ Jainism

Where: India

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: Avoid evil thoughts + actions, all life is sacred, live without destroying other life

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Samsara
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Who/What: Brahmins

Where: India

Approx. When: Aryans Vedic Age

Significance: Migration of soulds by a continual process of rebirth

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Dharma
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Who/What: Moral Law

Where: India

Approx. When: Vedic Age

Significance: Stipulates the Legitamate pursuits of Hindus

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Untouchables
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Who/What: Outcastes Impure

Where: India

Approx. When: The Aryans Vedic Age

Significance: Scorned from society because they earned their living by perfoming polluting jobs like slaughtering animals and dressing in skins

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Chandragupta
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Ashoka
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Who/What: Mouryan Empire

Where: India

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Significance: conversion to Buddhism, tried to turn Indian society into buddhists

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Vardhamana

Mahavira

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Who/What: Created Janism

Where: India

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Significance: accepted doctorines of Karma rebirth, but in new directions

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Havira
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Eight Fold

Path

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Who/What: Truth that Buddhists followed

Where: India

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: basic insight of buddhism, psychological

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Loess
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Who/What: Dominant Soil

Where: Yellow River/Yangzi River

Approx. When: Neolithic age

Significance: Fertile Land that is easy to work even with primitive tools ends up as silt in the huang river makes river bed rise + easily floods unless diked

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Mandate from

Heaven

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Who/What: Responsibility to Rule comes from Heaven

Where: China

Approx. When: Yellow River Indus Valley

Significance: Developed pillars, rise of more cities, has vassals (warlords holding the land for the king, local authorities)

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Kung Fuci
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Who/What: Created Confucianism

Where: China

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: 5 cardinal relationships (define)

ruler-subject-younger

father-son

husband-wife

older-younger

friend-buddy

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Feudalism
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Who/What: Shang Society Aristocracy

Where: China

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: Shang Society Bureacracy
vassals nobles wealthy landowners, advisors have no power, appointed by king

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Shihuangdi
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Dao De Ching
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Laozi
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Who/What: Book for Doaism

Where: China

Approx. When: World Classical Era

Significance: Mystical superiority of yielding over assertion and silence oer words, people benefited if then knew less, renounced writing stoppend, envying thir neighbors, lost desire to travel, engaged in war

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SimaQian
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Who/What: Official and Literary writer

Where: China

Approx. When: Han Dynasty

Significance: Wealth has no permenant master, wrote history of China, official historian of the emporer

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Paterfamilias
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Lucretia
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Carthage
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Imperium
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Pax Romana
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Where: Rome

Approx. When: Age of Augustus

Significance: Change to the system

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First

Triumvirate

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Who/What: Pompey, Julius Caesar, Crassus

Where: Rome

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Significance: 2 military heros, pompey turned senate against caesar

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Eucharist
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Who/What: Christian Disciples

Where: Rome

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Significance: Commerote Jesus Last Supper with Disciples

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Constantine
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Who/What: Ruler, Roman Emperor

Where: Rome

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Significance: Created a new capital in the east, legalized christianity, renamed Byzantium to Constantanoble

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Agape
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Who/What: Greek word for love

Where: Greece

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Significance: Agape feast: dinner where the wealthy took care of the poor

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Saul

(Paul)

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Who/What: Followers of Jesus

Where: Rome

Approx. When: Christianity

Significance: said Jesus is divine, shaped and spreaded christianity, don't have to be Jewish first to become christian

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Messiah
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Vandais
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Who/What: Germanic Tribes

Where: Rome

Approx. When: Fall of the west

Significance: invaded Rome creating rivalries, treaties with romans, clans lead by cheifs 

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Goths
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Who/What: Germanic tribes

Where: Rome (west)

Approx. When: Fall of Rome

Significance: Invaded Rome

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