History Key Concepts: Sources, Empires, Events & Movements

Primary Source

First hand account or record of the event or topic that the historian is studying

Secondary source

Work that describes, analyzes and interprets historical events.

Song Dynasty

China (960-1279) golden age of science, technology, art, etc.

Cold War space race

One way to demonstrate superior technology

Ottoman Empire

Islamic empire of the modern age: powerful long empire in turkey

Oldest known written document

The kish tablet (3,500 to 3,200 BCE)

Fall of Roman Empire

476: happened because of invasions

Clothing Styles and Cultural changes of World leaders

Very dramatic sense of style / U.S world leaders today are more simplistic/ set trends

Christopher Columbus

Treated the indigenous people very badly

Invention of Writing

Prehistory= everything; emerged from mesopotamia

Buddhism

Originated in India and spread throughout Asia (400 B.C.E- 900 C.E)

Enlightenment

A movement that highlights reasoning and rational thought, natural rights

Ethnicity

the shared cultural identity of a group or subgroup

Mughal Empire

Powerful Islamic state in south Asia lasting from 1526-1857

Be able to order events

WWII, Invention of Writing, Birth of Muhammad, Fall of Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution, Age of Enlightenment

Race

 combination of physical behavioral cultural attributes

nation

non citizen "national" u.s citizenship