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History Images

  • For each image, state:
    • What it is
    • What culture it comes from
    • Its significance

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Egypt�Hieroglyphics�

Used by the government bureaucracy

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Sumer�Cuneiform��Help keep government records

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��Confucius�China�Most important philosopher –�Respect & Responsibility

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Great Wall�China��Protected China from Mongols�

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Oracle Bones�China�

Used to tell the future –

Proved the ancient Chinese could write

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Seal�Indus Valley

Perhaps used by merchants or the governments as a type of logo

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High Priest��Indus Valley���Stylized religious art

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I’m the earliest Greek playwright. I wrote The Trojan Women.

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Aeschylus

Greek playwright

Author of tragedies

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Greek Vase�Greece�

Told stories of everyday life

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Greece�Corinthian Column��

Used for support

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��Sumer�Ziggurat�

Temple

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Illuminated Manuscript�Medieval Europe�

Monks copied texts before Europe developed the printing press.

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Aqueducts�Rome�

Brought water to the cities

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Hwang He (Hwang Ho)�China�

Floods were very dangerous but made the soil fertile

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Calligraphy�China�

The written Chinese language had thousands of characters.

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Parthenon�Greece�

Temple in Athens dedicated to Athena

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  • Indus Valley
  • Mohenjo-Daro
  • Shows that this ancient city was well-planned, advanced, and laid out in a grid pattern

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Castle�Medieval times�

Castles were used throughout Europe to provide protection from invaders like Vikings.

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Sphinx�Egypt�

Carved statue that shows belief in many gods

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Pyramid�Egypt�Tomb for Pharaoh

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Cave painting�Paleolithic�Told stories of every day life of a cave man

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Hebrew�Jerusalem�First major monotheistic religion

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Jesus�Jerusalem�His ideas led to Christianity�

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  • India
  • Painting of Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati
  • Shows the Hindus believed in one god with many faces

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  • Arch
  • Rome
  • Could support a large amount of weight

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Image #31 �(Identify person and religion)

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Moses�Judaism & Christianity

Ten Commandments that make up the moral and ethical code of the Hebrews

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Another name for Mesopotamia: __________ _____________

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  • Fertile Crescent, AKA Mesopotamia
  • Land between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  • Located in present-day Iraq

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What is the mountain range below called?

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  • Himalayas
  • Highest mountains in the world
  • Form a physical border between India and China

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  • Rome
  • Pantheon
  • Temple built by Emperor Hadrian and dedicated to all gods
  • Pantheon literally translates as “all gods”

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Image #37 (Name the river)

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Nile�Egypt�River valley

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  • Egypt
  • Ramses II
  • Most powerful pharaoh – giant statue indicates that pharaoh was considered a god (theocracy)

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What is the name of

this civilization??

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  • Indus Valley
  • Ancient culture that developed in Northern (Indo-Gangetic) Plain of India
  • Located in present-day Pakistan
  • Two cities were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

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Code of Hammurabi�Babylon�First written laws

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a2

b2

c2

Whose theorem is this?

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  • Pythagoras
  • Greek
  • Used to calculate the length of the sides of a right triangle

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Domestication of Animals�Neolithic�So people could stay stationary

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Pope

Bishop of Rome

Leader of Roman Catholic Church

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Coliseum�Rome�For Gladiators to battle to the death

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Forum

Rome

Central marketplace of the city

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Doric column�Greece�For Temples and other buildings

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“In what war might my great-great-great grandfather have participated?”

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  • Second Punic War
  • Hannibal, the great general from Carthage, used elephants as tanks
  • He crossed the Alps, entering the Italian peninsula from the North

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Ionic column�Greece�For Temples and other buildings

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  • Latin
  • Language of the Romans
  • Mother to many other languages – French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
  • Not a mother language to English

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Where in Africa was the Lucy skeleton found?

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  • Ethiopia
  • 3-4 million years ago
  • First prehuman to walk upright

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Vikings�Europe�Invaded Europe

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Untouchables

Sudra

Vaisya

Kshatriya

Brahmin

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Caste system�India�

Based on occupation – a person could not change his caste in a single lifetime

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  • Greece
  • Archimedes
  • Scientist who developed practical uses for lever and pulleys

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Rosetta stone�Egypt�

Used Greek writing to decipher hieroglyphics

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  • Plato
  • Greek philosopher
  • Student of Socrates

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  • Egypt
  • Important river valley civilization
  • Found in Northeast Africa

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Manor�Europe�Self-sufficient farm that made its own products

(This could also show the characteristics of the Neolithic period.)

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Fire�Paleolithic�Heated up food and lit dark caves

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  • Irrigation
  • Used for farming in most ancient civilizations
  • Water often diverted from rivers for this purpose

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“We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics minds his own business; we say he has no business at all.”

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  • Pericles
  • Leader during Golden Age of Athens
  • Believed all citizens had a responsibility to participate in govt.
  • Promoted democracy, the arts, literature
  • Died during Peloponnesian War

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“All doctors should take my oath and promise to do all they can to save lives.”

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  • Hippocrates
  • Greek
  • Important doctor

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Dictatorship�Rome�Type of government

Cincinnatus

Julius Caesar

Hitler (yes, not Roman, I know)

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  • Italy
  • Peninsula
  • Birth place of ancient Rome

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  • Olive oil
  • From Greece
  • Export that Greece traded with other countries

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  • Arabia
  • Muslim empire
  • Birthplace of the Muslim religion

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  • Nero
  • Roman Emperor
  • Persecuted Christians
  • According to legend, he fiddled while Rome burned

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  • Ptolemy
  • Scientist who said the earth is the center of the universe
  • He came from the Roman Empire, from the province of Egypt

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DYE

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  • Phoenicians
  • Made up the alphabet (related to word “Phonics”
  • Great sailors
  • Lived on the Mediterranean coast

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What is the ancient name for this country?

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  • Palestine
  • Today, it’s Israel
  • Tension in the region between Palestinian Muslims and Jewish Israelis

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  • Old Stone Age
  • Learned how to speak
  • Wall painting for us now how to know what they did
  • Female statues
  • Fire

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  • Rome
  • Law of the Twelve Tables
  • Established the principle that all citizens would be equal under the law, innocent until proven guilty, etc.

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  • Sparta
  • Greek city-state that fought with Athens to be the most powerful
  • Fought on same side as Athens against Persians
  • Beat Athens after almost 30-year-long Peloponnesian War

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  • Jupiter
  • Ruler of Roman gods
  • Rome got its polytheistic religion from the Greeks
  • Roman gods gave most of the planets in our solar system their names

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  • India
  • Subcontinent
  • South Asia

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  • Shiva, god of destruction
  • Hinduism
  • Major religion in India

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  • Egypt
  • Polytheistic
  • Gods indicated strong belief in life after death

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  • Italy
  • Rome centrally located on seven hills on Italian peninsula
  • Proximity to Mediterranean encouraged trade and contact with other cultures

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Patricians or plebeians?

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  • Plebeians
  • Rome
  • Regular people – farmers, merchants, artisans
  • Interests are represented by tribunes

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Senators�Rome�Patricians who made laws for the people of Rome

(Yes, these are U.S. Senators. We borrowed the custom from the Romans.)

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  • Asia
  • Largest continent

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What culture?

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Sculpture�Greece�Type of art

Greek art idealized the human body.

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“Know yourself.”

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  • Socrates
  • Greek
  • Greatest philosopher – taught people to ask questions – killed because he questioned the gods and corrupted the youth of Athens

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Father of Geometry

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  • Euclid
  • Greek
  • Invented a mathematical system to torture high school students for all of history

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  • Rome
  • Venus
  • Goddess of love

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Yin Yang�China�Opposing forces in the universe

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Athens, help us!

Save us from Persia!

Defend our city-state and we’ll pay you!

Athens, save your Greek brothers!

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  • Greece
  • Delian League
  • Alliance set up by Athens to protect other Greek city-states from Persia

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Edict of Milan:

Christians will be tolerated.

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  • Constantine
  • Roman Emperor
  • Issued Edict of Milan to tolerate Christians.
  • Set up second capital at Constantinople.

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800 AD

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  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Ruled by Charlemagne
  • Much of Western and Central Europe

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  • Monastery
  • Place where monks copied illuminated manuscripts
  • Monks also set up hospitals and schools and helped travellers

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Our land is at peace. We are now an empire.

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  • Rome
  • Augustus Caesar
  • First emperor of Roman Empire
  • Established Roman Peace, or Pax Romana

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  • Nomads
  • Wander from place to place in search of food and shelter
  • Humans in Paleolithic times were nomadic

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  • Political Map of Europe
  • Birthplace of Greco-Roman culture
  • Heartland of Christendom
  • Often referred to as “The West”

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  • Athens
  • Most culturally advanced Greek city-state
  • Birthplace of democracy, theater, the Olympics, etc.

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  • Athens
  • View from the acropolis
  • High place from which to defend the city

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  • Shang China
  • Founded along Hwang Ho River
  • Oracle bones, ritual bronzes discovered there

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  • Alps
  • Made an invasion of Northern Italy difficult
  • Hannibal was still able to invade them

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  • Africa
  • Second-largest continent
  • Birthplace of human civilization

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  • Rome
  • Circus Maximus
  • Place for Roman chariot races, like in “Ben Hur”

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Name river and religion

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  • Ganges River
  • Sacred to all Hindus
  • Ritual bathing important for all Hindus

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  • Hadrian’s Wall
  • Roman Empire
  • Built between England and Scotland as the northern border of the Roman Empire

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  • Byzantine Empire
  • Icon of Orthodox Christianity
  • Venerated painting of saints
  • This shows Mary and Jesus

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  • Kaaba
  • All Muslims should make one pilgrimage of to Mecca (Fifth Pillar).
  • Located in Mecca

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  • Hagia Sophia
  • Byzantine
  • Beautiful church built by Justinian
  • Located in Constantinople (Istanbul)

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  • Byzantine art
  • Mosaic
  • Made of small pieces of glass and stone
  • Mosaics are usually religious in theme

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  • Gothic cathedral
  • European
  • Pointed arch and stained glass windows are important characteristics

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  • Patriarch
  • Leader of the Orthodox Church
  • Language of Orthodox Christianity is Greek, capital was in Constantinople

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  • Mosque
  • Muslim house of worship
  • Can be identified by slender towers called minarets and horseshoe-shaped arch

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  • Icon
  • Byzantine painting
  • Venerated in Orthodox Christianity

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  • Byzantine mosaic
  • Justinian
  • Most powerful emperor of Eastern Roman Empire
  • Responsible for Justinian Code, Hagia Sophia, preservation of Greco-Roman culture

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What kind of map projection is this?

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  • Robinson

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  • Japan
  • Katsura Palace
  • Rice paper walls

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  • Black Sea
  • Made Byzantine Empire center of int’l trade
  • Linked to Mediterranean trade by the Bosporus Straits of Constantinople

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Right conduct

Right speech

Right aspirations

Right views

Right livelihood

Right mindfulness

Right effort

Right contemplation

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  • Buddhism
  • Eightfold Path
  • Middle way b/n life of pleasure and life of self denial

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  • Gold for salt
  • West Africa
  • Two main objects traded
  • Salt as valuable as gold because it could preserve food

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Whose empire is this?

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  • Alexander the Great
  • Hellenistic Empire
  • Broke up shortly after Alexander’s death in 322 BC

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�Bamiyan�Taliban Muslims are destroying it���

  • Buddhist statue
  • Located in Bamiyan
  • Victim of Taliban government

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  • Code of Hammurabi
  • An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
  • Babylon

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  • Kush (Nubia)
  • Pottery
  • Used to trade with Egypt

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  • Crown
  • Worn by Kings
  • Used in Monarchy and occasionally Feudalism

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Should taxes be increased by 5% to give more money to schools?

YES NO

Check one.

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  • Direct Democracy
  • Greece
  • Government voting form

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  • Cathedral
  • Christianity
  • Wealthy

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  • Patricians
  • Rich Romans

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  • Greece
  • Citizens could vote in Athens
  • To be a citizen, a person had to be a native-born adult male

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  • Sparta
  • War city in Greece

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  • Chichen Itza
  • Mayan temple complex
  • Temple for polytheistic religion
  • Site of human sacrifices

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  • Korea
  • Physical map
  • Peninsula

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What two books did I write?

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  • Homer was a blind epic poet
  • Ancient Greece
  • The Illiad
  • The Odyssey

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No God but Allah

Pray 5 times a day

Help the poor (alms)

Fast during Ramadan

Pilgrimage to Mecca

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  • Five Pillars
  • Islam
  • Rules all Muslims are expected to follow

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  • Illuminated manuscript
  • Islam
  • Rarely portrayed humans or animals

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  • Charlemagne
  • Holy Roman Emperor

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  • Crusade routs
  • War Between Muslims and Christians for the holy land

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  • Cyrillic alphabet
  • Form of writing
  • Russia

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  • Ivory, ebony, and perfume
  • Three main trading products of Kush
  • Traded with Egypt

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The law says we should treat juveniles differently than adults.

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  • Justinian Code
  • Treated juveniles differently from adults
  • Byzantine

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  • Legion
  • Basic unit of the Roman army
  • Known for discipline

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Name the country

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  • Japan
  • Archipelago
  • Shintoism and Zen Buddhism are the two main religions

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  • Mayan writing
  • Combination of an alphabet and hieroglyphics
  • Wasn’t deciphered until recently

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  • Macchu Picchu
  • South America
  • Incan ruins

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I want to conquer the world!

Let’s combine Greek culture with Syrian, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian influences.

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  • Alexander the Great
  • Combined cultures while taking over the surrounding world
  • Created Hellenistic empire by encouraging intermarriage

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You poked out my eyes! I’ll do the same to you!

You can’t! You’re poor! Take the money and shut up!

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  • Code of Hammurabi
  • Law in Babylon
  • Some people are better then others

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  • Tikal
  • Mayan temple
  • Polytheistic religion

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A

C

D

B

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  • A = Italy
  • B = Mediterranean Sea
  • C = Greece
  • D = Asia Minor

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  • Torah
  • Holy book of the Jews, the oldest monotheistic religion

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  • Germany
  • Location of tribes that tried to invade the Roman Empire
  • Origin of English language

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  • Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain
  • Spain is the only European country to convert to Islam
  • Southern Spain was Muslim from 711 – 1492 AD
  • Two-colored horseshoe arch is nearly always Muslim

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  • Arabic calligraphy
  • Official language of Islam
  • The Quran is written in Arabic
  • Many Arabic styles of writing

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Since I’m tied to the land, I might as well be a slave.

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  • Serfs
  • Medieval Europe
  • Not allowed to leave the manor or marry without permission
  • Different from slaves since they could not be bought or sold

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  • France
  • First united under Hugh Capet

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  • St. Basil’s Cathedral
  • Orthodox Church
  • Russia

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  • Daoism (Taoism)
  • Founded by Laozi
  • Chinese philosophy
  • Emphasizes harmony with nature, limited government

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  • Golden Horn
  • Bosporus Strait that separates Cosntantinople (Istanbul) into an Asian side and a European side

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Who will represent our interests?

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  • Republic
  • Government in which people elect leaders to represent their interests
  • Rome was the first republic
  • The U.S. is a democratic republic

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  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Vatican City
  • Capital of Roman Catholic Church, located in Rome

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Ruler to subject

Father to son

Husband to wife

Older to younger brother

Friend to friend

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  • Confucianism
  • Five Relationships
  • Each person owes respect to the superior, and has responsibility to the inferior

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  • Diaspora
  • Scattering of Jews that took place worldwide after the Romans’ destruction of the Temple in 66 AD

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What is the white line called?

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  • Equator
  • Divides the world into two halves - Northern and Southern Hemispheres

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  • Globe – three-dimensional, so a good representation
  • Interrupted projection – accurate for landforms, not for oceans

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  • Silk Roads
  • Route used to exchange Chinese silk with goods from Rome and/or Fertile Crescent

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  • Buddha
  • Founder of Buddhism, major religion in Asia

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Founding

Peace and Prosperity

Decline

Overthrow

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  • Dynastic cycle
  • China
  • Chinese believed when the ruler lost the Mandate of Heaven, it was okay to overthrow him

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  • Persian Wars
  • Between Persia and the Greek city-states
  • Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to tell the people of Athens that their army beat the Persians at Marathon.

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  • Germanic invasions of Rome
  • Fifth century AD
  • One of many factors that caused Western Roman Empire to fall

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  • Asoka
  • Mauryan Emperor of India who converted to Buddhism because of its nonviolent philosophy
  • Encouraged religious toleration
  • Carved Edicts (orders) at base of pillars

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  • Europe
  • Physical map
  • Shows landforms, elevation, etc.

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  • Medieval manor
  • Self-sufficient village based on farming
  • Serfs provided the main labor source on the manor

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  • Mercator projection
  • Map projection with major distortion at the poles

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  • Persia
  • Ruins of ancient city of Persepolis
  • Located in present-day Iran

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  • Euphrates River
  • One of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
  • Located in present-day Turkey and Iraq

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  • Shintoism
  • Local religion unique to Japan that worships the emperor, nature, and ancestors
  • Clan spirits of ancestors were known as kami.

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  • Islam
  • Daily prayer
  • The Five Pillars require Muslims to pray five times a day facing Mecca.

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  • Aztec
  • Calendar wheel
  • Accurate calendar critical to their religion

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  • South America
  • Political map

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  • Silk
  • First made by the Chinese around 1000 BC
  • Much desired by people in the Middle East

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In what kind of climate would you find these animals?

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  • Africa
  • Savanna
  • Largest climate region in Africa

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  • Appian Way
  • Most famous of all Roman roads
  • Connected Rome and Southeastern Italy
  • Was used for over 1,000 years

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Plato was my favorite teacher; Alexander the Great was my favorite student.

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  • Aristotle
  • Master of many fields of knowledge
  • First philosopher to classify plants and animals

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  • Buddhist practices
  • Monks create a mandala from memory
  • Buddhist prayer wheel
  • Buddhists believe in reincarnation

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  • Maya
  • Jaguar vase
  • One of the many gods of the Mayas

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  • Maya culture
  • Group of different city-states found in Mexico and Central America
  • Religion and ritual very important

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  • Egypt
  • Palette of Narmer
  • Stylized religious art

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  • Map of the Aztec Empire
  • Located in the Valley of Mexico
  • Tenochtitlan was the capital

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  • Egypt
  • Nile River
  • Northeast Africa

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  • Rome
  • Major buildings are Pantheon, Coliseum, Column of Trajan
  • Architecture of the city reflected Greek influences

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  • Byzantine Empire
  • Eastern half of the Roman Empire
  • Most powerful under Justinian
  • Wealthy and prosperous b/c of international trade

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  • Knight
  • Middle Ages
  • Under system of feudalism, knights fought for the king in exchange for land.

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  • Egypt
  • Pharaoh
  • Ruler of Egypt; also considered a god

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  • Empire of Carthage
  • Great naval power
  • Fought with Rome in Punic Wars
  • Was destroyed at the end of the Third Punic War

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  • Hinduism
  • India
  • Yoga – exercise practice that improves flexibility, strength, mental focus

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Since I haven’t been fair to my people, I’ll probably lose my crown.

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  • China
  • Mandate of Heaven
  • An emperor was considered the divine Son of Heaven only as long as he treated the people fairly.

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Will you protect my kingdom in exchange for land?

Sure!

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  • Feudalism
  • Used in Medieval Europe and China
  • Exchange of land for military service

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  • Land bridge
  • Between Asia and North America
  • Made it possible to walk from Siberia in Asia to Alaska in North America

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  • Cultural diffusion
  • An idea or thing starts in one culture and spreads quickly to other cultures, usually b/c of trade contacts
  • Buddhism came to China this way
  • Greek culture spread throughout Mediterranean world during Hellenistic period

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  • Dome of the Rock
  • Muslim mosque
  • Located in Jerusalem (the third holiest city of Islam

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  • Mongol warriors
  • Skilled in horsemanship and archery
  • Took over much of China and Russia in 1200s

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Persia

Organized imperial bureaucracy

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  • Iron and bronze tools & weapons
  • Used in river valleys
  • Tools, spears, chariots, etc. were made from metal

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  • Fall of Western half of the Roman Empire
  • Germanic tribes overran all of Rome
  • Dark Ages begin in Europe
  • Roman culture continues in the Byzantine Empire for another thousand years

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  • Greek alphabet
  • Language of the Hellenistic culture created by Alexander the Great, the Byzantine Empire, and the Greek Orthodox Church

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1215 AD

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  • Magna Carta
  • Document King John signed in 1215 AD
  • First official limit ever placed on royal power

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509 BC

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  • Rome
  • Founding of the republic
  • Etruscan king was overthrown in this year and Rome founded its first representative government

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  • Stonehenge
  • England
  • Stone Age site that probably