History - midterm study guide (Kahoot)

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History study guide for mid terms.

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What is History?

What happened in the pass.

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What is corroboration?

C0rroboration means to support something with evidence

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Close reading

closely examining something

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What is secondary source?

Secondary source is something that came from a another party.

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Situating ideas or arguments

contextualization

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What is perspective?

The way you see things.

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looking up something specific

Sourcing

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Culture

All ways of life that are passed down

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Information leading toward something

Bias

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How many social classes make up the ancient caste system in India?

4

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Who strengthened the caste system?

Hinduism

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Reincarnation is…

a person being rebirthed

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what does karma determine…

a persons good or bad deeds determine the course of their new life

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When people are born in a caste system

they stay for life

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Upanishads are

text of teachings

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The Hindu teachers created the religion in…

750-500BC

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What doe BC mean?

Before Christ

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What law did the Sumerians use?

Hammurabi

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The writing type of mesotopia is….

cunieform

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What river is the basis for Egyptian civilization?

Nile river

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Mesopotamians did NOT trade..

guns

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Between what 2 rivers did the Fertile Crescent appear?

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

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Mesopotamia traded with…

Egyptians

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The earliest kingdoms in Mesopotamia is…

Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Persian

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What paper did Egyptians write on?

Papyrus

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Egyptians would write in…

hieroglyphics

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what other African kingdom did Egypt n=trade and interact with

Nubia

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Originating in a particular place…

indigenous

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A person who trades products

merchants

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A native person is…

a indigenous to certain land

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an enslaved person

a person who is capture and forced to work

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Taxes are

a fee imposed by the government on the citizens to pay extensive

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Labor is

hard physical work

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A settler in or inhabitant of a place

colonist

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The action of settling an area under the control of indigenous people is

colonization

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To bind someone as a laborer

indentured

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The heliocentric model

the solar system revolves around the sun

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The geocentric model

the solar system revolves around the earth

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Telescope is a tool to see…

far things, and make them seem closer

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Steps to construct a hypothesis is called the…

scientific method

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Galileo was born in

Italy

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Isaac Newton

Created the law of gravitation that states any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other

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Nicolaus Copernicus

born in poland, astronomer, supported the heliocentric model

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Galileo and Newton were…

Mathematicians

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Leo de Vinci

born in Italy, scientist, painter, engineer.

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Catholic church

supported the geocentric model and distrusted the scientists

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Voltaire

freedom of speech

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Montique

French writer believed in separation of power

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Rousseau, a French philosopher believed in

individual freedom

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italian worked to reform the criminal justice system

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Mary Wollstonecraft

worked to help women become educated

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Denis Diderot

created the encyclopedia

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Mozart, a classical music composer

lived in Austria

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