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World History to 1500
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History
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2008

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Big History
Definition
History since the beginning of time
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Paleozoic Era
Definition
appearance of animals and land plants
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Big Bang Theory
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Theory of how the unviverse began
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Mesozoic Era
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Appearance and extinction of the dinosaurs
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Pangea
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Super Continent
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Australopithecus afarensis
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Lucy, clmbed out of trees
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Great Rift Valley
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where enviorment changed most and apes came down from trees stood up and walked
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homo habilis
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Dear boy "skillful man" used tools to make tools
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Homo erectus
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"standing man" first long travelers, fire. Java man and peking man
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Paleolithic era
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old stone age
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Neolithic era
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New stone age, development of agriculture, domesticated animals, and pottery
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Venus of willendorf
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discoverd in 1908 25,000 yrs old. Emphasis on fertility
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fertile Crescent
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First agricultural farming domesticated plants and animals
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Jericho
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Fresh water oasis, bee hive lke dwelling, large wall, moat, buried dead, 23ft tower scircular stairway inside 8000 bc
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Catal Hoyuk
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7000 bc 32 acres 10000 ppl largest in nelithic, rectangular apartment style dwellings, ladders, division of labor, no temples, buried dead under floor.
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Banpo
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Chinese village 4800-4200 bc fish + chicken more like jericho, trench, equality, matrolinear
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Epc of Giglamesh
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Epic peom from ancient mesopotamia, one of earliest literary works,King of Oruk
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Cuneiform
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wedged symbols on wet clay then heated, sounds syllables, ideas, pictographic, not a language, feww ppl knew, boke code withrock face in three languages built by persian king
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Heiroglyphics
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Pictoral not syllabic, decoded by rosseta stone
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Mesopotamia
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Land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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Nippur
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One of first large cities, from mesopotamia, holy sity, home of gods
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Uruk
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Ancient city from Sumer near euphrates, ziggaurats and tablets, gilgmaesh
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Sumer
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Ancient region un southern mesopotamia, had first cities
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akkad
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Ancient region of mesopotamia in the northern part of babylonia
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Ziggurat
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Among babylonians and Assyrians, a large temple the form of a pyrymidal shape
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Behistun
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Site of rock face with three languages written in cuneiform.
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Sargon of Akkad
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Akkadian king famous for conquest of sumerian states. First conquerer
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Sumerian King list
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List kings and cities of sumer. Earlier one imppossible.
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Narmer Palette
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Tablet that depicts the unification of North and South Egypt.
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Old Kingdom
Definition
Period of Ancient Egypt 3-6th dynasties with memphis as capital. Golden Age
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Pyramids
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Tallest stuctures in world at the time, restign place for pharoah.
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Osiris
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God-King and jusge of the dead.
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Rosetta stone
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1799 discovery in sands, Jean Francois Champilion decoded it. Read egyptain writing. Ptolmey had it carved
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Mehenjo daro
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Site near indus river where six succesive ancient cities were built
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Kassites
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Conquesred babylonia. From southern Mesopotamia, incorporated culture
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Hyskos
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Foreign rulers took over europe using chariot technology, moved capital from thebes.
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Hammurabi of babylon
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Leader who constantly in conflict with powerful neighbors. New form of ruling with regional governers
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hatshepsut
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Most powerful woman in history of Egypt, ruled for her brother and continued after his death. Peaceful reign
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Akhenaten
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Heratic pharoah, wanted monotheism, successor reverted egypt back., unpopular.
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Shang China
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Fisrt urban based dyansty, Expanse natural not essential, oracle bone, kingship on lineage, ruling more personal less permanent laws
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knossos
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Ancient city in crete,Minoan culture, tin + copper, Palace in awesome
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Mycenaean Greece
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Last phase of the bronze age in greece, urban centers built, warfare oriented, warrior culture.
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