Studied by 26 people
LUCY
Donald Johansson discovered this bipedal hominid
Hunter Gatherers
Egalitarian, Small groups, Nomadic, No Social Classes, Cave Paintings, Fertility figurines
Agricultural Revolution
Marked by invention of irrigation and domestication of animals
River Valley Locations
Tigris, Nile, Huang He, Indus
Retaliation Code of Law
Hammurabi of Babylon
Compensation Code of Law
Nesilim of Hatti
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar's Valentine
Sargon of Akkad
World's First Emperor
Hittites
Smallpox killed these Iron lovers
Ziggurat
Temple in Mesopotamia
The Lord our G-d is one.
Monotheism in the Shema
Ashurbanipal of Assyria
Lions and Libraries
Enheduanna, the priestess
World's first known author
Cuneiform of Sumer
World's 1st writing
Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Built mortuary temple for herself at Deir al Bahri
Frenemies Egypt and Nubia
Cultural Diffusion
Natural Barriers of Egypt
Med Sea, cataract, deserts
Natural Barriers of India
Indian Ocean, Hindu Kush, Himalayas
Natural barriers of China
Gobi, Takla Makan, Jungles, Himalayas, Tien Shan
Natural barriers of Mesopotamia
Caucasus, Persian Gulf, Zagros, Caspian and Black
Egyptian Afterlife
Happy Field of Food
Mesopotamian Afterlife
World of Clay
Hindu Afterlife
World of the Fathers
Akhetaten
Worship of the Sun's disk Aten
Seth
Horus avenged his father Osiris by killing his uncle
Reincarnation (Samsara)
Dharma and Karma earns you a better or worse life.
Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
Seeks the Truth about Suffering and becomes Enlightened
Four Noble Truths
All of life is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, the cure is to overcome desires, to do that follow the 8 Fold Path
Ganesha
The elephant headed son of Shiva and Shakti
Patriarchy
Rama's magic circle around Sita, his wife.
Dowry Deaths/Bride Burnings
Tragic by-product of Patriarchy in India
Hindu Trimurti
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
Qin Shi Huangdi
1st Emperor of China who built roads, a bureaucracy and a Wall
Yu
1st leader of Xia Dynasty who labored tirelessly to tame the River of Sorrows
Fu Hao
Real life Shang Warrior Queen
Fa Mulan
Legendary Chinese Warrior woman
Legalism
Chinese philosophy of Han Feizi rooted in harshly enforcing the Law.
Daoism
"Do nothing and all things will be accomplished" - Lao Tzu
Ban Zhao
Admonitions for Women advised her daughters to be submissive
Right Relationships
Confucian teaching telling a little sister to obey her big sister.
Homer
Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey
Darius of Persia
Achaemenid Emperor who attempted to conquer Greece
Sparta
Enslaved the local people and trained for war from age 6 to 60
Eris
Brought Golden Apple to a wedding to create DISCORD
Achilles
Greatest of all the Greek heroes in Trojan War. Undone by his weak ankles.
Medea
Play about Jason's vengeful "wife".
Oedipus Rex
Play detailing fate's effects on a man's life.
Herodotus
Famed Greek known as "Father of History"
Oracle at Delphi
Greek headquarters of divination where all prophecies were revealed in riddle.
Hellenized
Alexander the Great "greekified" the world he conquered.
Khadija
Beloved wife of Mohammed and 1st convert to Islam
Quran
Sacred text of Islam along with the Sunnahs and Hadith
Analects
Sacred text of Confucianism
Vedas
Sacred text of Hinduism
Tripitaka (three baskets)
Sacred text of Buddhism
Dao de Jing (Way of Virtue)
Sacred text of Daoism
Hegira (hijra)
Flight of Muhammad and beginning of Islam
Pillars of Islam
Shahadah, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Pilgrimage (hajj)
Abu Bakr
Successor to Muhammad and 1st Caliph
Isaac
Son of Abraham and Hagar, founder of Mecca and builder of Ka'aba
Minoan
Prototypes of Greeks
To submit to G-d
Islam and Muslim means
People of the Book
Abrahamic religions: Muslims, Christians and Jews - are all...
Halley's Comet
Omen in the Bayeux Tapestry
Bubonic Plague
Black Death caused by fleas on rats
Magna Carta
King John relinquished his royal power when he signed this charter in 1215
William the Conqueror
Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066
Vikings
Northmen who raided and plundered Europe, Russia and the Mediterranean starting in 793
Octavian Augustus
1st Roman Emperor who built roads and aqueducts.
Wool
Textile produced in northern Europe from sheep
Silk
Textile produced in China from worms
Cotton
The "fabric of life" produced in the Indus River Valley
Guilds
Business associations in medieval towns
White elephant
Because Buddha's mother dreamt of this animal she knew he was destined to become a holy man
YUAN
Mongol dynasty in China run by Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Prince of Lies who claimed he saw rocks on fire, paper that was used as money, worms that made silk and colorful explosions in the sky
Ibn Battuta
Learned Muslim legal scholar who traveled the Sand Roads
Diplomatic Gift to Charlemagne
A "white elephant" was originally an unwanted
Feudalism
Loyalty in exchange for land and power
Borobudur
Hometown of Marco Polo
Timbuktu
Hometown of Ibn Battuta
Dunhuang
Hometown of Zheng He
Purusha
Hinduism refers to Purusha as the soul of the universe, the universal spirit present everywhere, in everything and everyone, all the time
Chinggis Khan
Great Leader of Mongols who conquered the world in the 1200s
Troubadour
Poets who wrote love songs
Ka'aba
House of God for Muslims
Indus Seal
seals used in the indus river valley civilization probably used to close documents and mark packages of goods
Parthenon
Temple to Athena in Greece
Terracotta Warriors
collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang
Bayeux Tapestry
embroidered cloth that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England
Stepped Pyramid
pyramid of djoser in Egypt
Theseus and the Minotaur
Theseus, son of Aegeus decided to be one of the seven young men that would go to Crete, in order to kill the Minotaur and end the human sacrifices to the monster
Charlemagne
King of the Franks
Anubis
god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld
Narmer Palette
celebrate Narmer’s military “victories” over Lower Egypt
Silk Road
network of Eurasian trade routes
traded goods such as silk, spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool, precious metals, diseases, and ideas
Sand Road
routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa
North had manufactured goods, salt, horses, cloth, dates. South had crops, gold, ivory, kola nuts, slaves.
Sea Road
route of trade along the seas and oceans
glass and other goods for Chinese decorated ceramics
Aqueduct
Roman system for moving water from the mountains to the city.
Sargon of Akkad
First Emperor of Akkad
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