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Global Midterm Project
By Julie Apuzzo and Johanna Cohen
3 Million Years Ago-Present
Australopithecines, homo habilis, homo erectus, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons are our ancestors
Neolithic Revolution was the
agricultural revolution
Fertile Crescent
• Located in between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Was home to the Mesopotamia and Sumer civilizations
Hammurabi’s Code
• First set of written laws; eye for an eye
• Laws were put into place when Sumer was conquered
Egypt
• Egypt is “Gift of the Nile”• Narmer united upper and lower Egypt • Believed in theocracy
Indus Valley Civilization
• Located on the Indus River• Had Monsoons • Used Urban planning
River Valley China
• Located on yellow river
• Loess (yellow silt from river)
• Mandate of Heaven • Feudalism • Dynastic Cycle
Hinduism
• Started with nomads in the Indus Valley (1500 B.C.)
• Caste System
Buddhism
• Started by Siddhartha Gutama of India• Believed in four noble truths• Wanted Nirvana
Christianity and Judaism• Christianity derived from
Judaism• Constantine of Rome
accepted Christianity• Monotheistic
• Daoism/Taoism – harmony with nature
•Animism – belief that all things have a soul
Philosophers of Greece – Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Peloponnesian Wars – between Athens and Sparta
Devian League – Greek city-states united to defeat Persia
Greece was a democracy
Alexander The Great
• From Macedonia• Conquers and unites Greece,
Egypt, Persia, and part of India• Hellenistic Culture
Punic Wars
• Between Hannibal of Carthage and Rome
• Rome won
Roman Republic• 12 tables – written laws• Patricians – wealthy land owners• Plebeians – poor farmers• 3 branches
Fall of the Republic
• Falls mainly because of rich and poor gap, and corruption in the government
• Last consul was Julius Caesar
Roman Empire
• Pax Romana
• Started by Augustus
• Diocletian divided the empire
• Fell for same reasons as republic
Byzantine
• East part of former Roman empire
• Preserved Roman culture
• Justinian and Theodora
Mauryan Empire
• United Northern India for the first time• Asoka promoted religious tolerance• Chandragupta Mauryan was first
emperor
Guptan Empire
• Had India’s Golden Age• Made many advanced discoveries, like the
value of pi
Han Dynasty
• Lui Bang, Wudi and Wand Bang• Confucianism• Had many monopolies
By Julie Apuzzo and Johanna Cohen
Global 1A
Midterm Review