History - midterm study guide (Kahoot)

History study guide for mid terms.

What is History?

What happened in the pass.

What is corroboration?

C0rroboration means to support something with evidence

Close reading

closely examining something

What is secondary source?

Secondary source is something that came from a another party.

Situating ideas or arguments

contextualization

What is perspective?

The way you see things.

looking up something specific

Sourcing

Culture

All ways of life that are passed down

Information leading toward something

Bias

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

4

Who strengthened the caste system?

Hinduism

Reincarnation is…

a person being rebirthed

what does karma determine…

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

When people are born in a caste system

they stay for life

Upanishads are

text of teachings

The Hindu teachers created the religion in…

750-500BC

What doe BC mean?

Before Christ

What law did the Sumerians use?

Hammurabi

The writing type of mesotopia is….

cunieform

What river is the basis for Egyptian civilization?

Nile river

Mesopotamians did NOT trade..

guns

Between what 2 rivers did the Fertile Crescent appear?

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Mesopotamia traded with…

Egyptians

The earliest kingdoms in Mesopotamia is…

Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Persian

What paper did Egyptians write on?

Papyrus

Egyptians would write in…

hieroglyphics

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

Nubia

Originating in a particular place…

indigenous

A person who trades products

merchants

A native person is…

a indigenous to certain land

an enslaved person

a person who is capture and forced to work

Taxes are

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

Labor is

hard physical work

A settler in or inhabitant of a place

colonist

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

colonization

To bind someone as a laborer

indentured

The heliocentric model

the solar system revolves around the sun

The geocentric model

the solar system revolves around the earth

Telescope is a tool to see…

far things, and make them seem closer

Steps to construct a hypothesis is called the…

scientific method

Galileo was born in

Italy

Isaac Newton

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

Nicolaus Copernicus

born in poland, astronomer, supported the heliocentric model

Galileo and Newton were…

Mathematicians

Leo de Vinci

born in Italy, scientist, painter, engineer.

Catholic church

supported the geocentric model and distrusted the scientists

Voltaire

freedom of speech

Montique

French writer believed in separation of power

Rousseau, a French philosopher believed in

individual freedom

italian worked to reform the criminal justice system

Mary Wollstonecraft

worked to help women become educated

Denis Diderot

created the encyclopedia

Mozart, a classical music composer

lived in Austria