August 29- Sept. 2 Blog
Chapter One- World History
What is World History? BC and AD?
The worlds history
BC- before christ
AD- Anno Domini (in the year of our lord)
BCE- before common era
CE- Common Era
How old is the Earth?
13 ½ billion years old is the universe and earth is 4.6 million years old
Where were the oldest human fossils found?
Africa- Tanzania and Ethiopia
Who Found the oldest human fossils?
Louis and Mary leakey(found pieces of human fossils), Donald Johanson(found the first whole human body lucy)
What are some of the biggest achievements in world history?
The wheels, fire, laungage, boats and tools and art
3 major era in world history
Palaeozoic Era( ancient life), Mesozoic Era (middle life), and the Cenozoic Era (recent life)
Hominids
Groups of People finding Human like fossils found in 1959 in the Olduvai Gorge
Donald Johanson
Discovered Lucy a 75 million year old female fossil
Oldest known Hominids
Homo-Sapiens
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Modern
Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution
Prior to the organized agriculture, people were nomadic- hunted animals and gathered plants
They live in 25-70 group
Then 10,000 years ago people started to organize crops (farming) just happened
Along with crops people started keeping domesticated animals (horses, dogs, pigs and goats)
The beganning of farming
The warmer is was back in this time the longer and more people lived
Citizenship
As time went on people started making villages which turned into towns and cities
Complex ways of thinking and living emerged into civilization (a high advanced human society in a city)
As cities grew social groups formed
Five traits of Civilization
Advances cities (continuing to build city bigger- farmers, soldiers, merchants, etc)
Writing/Record keeping (write down history)
Specialized Workers (lots of different jobs)
Complex Institutions(gov, military, education, religion)
Advanced TEchnology (pryamids)
What are natural Borders
rivers , mountains, ocean, seas, desert
Why are defensivible borders important for a civilation to thrive?
Protection from other civilizations
Why are Rivers important to Civilization
Arose in 4 seprate river valleys around 3500 BC
Fertile soil mild climate, waterway for transportation, water for drinking
One bad thing- Floods
Fertile Crescent-
Cresent shaped land, need flood to have land fertile
Mesopotamia
The land between the rivers (tigris and
City-state
Cities were like countries, their cities but countries as well
A city and the sorrounding territory it controls
Functioned lke an independenr counrty
Dynasty
A series of rulers from a single family-father to son
Cultural diffusion
Process in which ideas from one culture to another
Polytheism
Believe in many god (native americans)
Monotheism
Believe in one god (musslum judisism, christianality)
Empire
Group of territories or nations ruled by a single ruler
Delta
A broad marshy area of land formed by deposits of slit where a river runs into a bigger body of water
Very fertile land (nile river delta)
King Namer
King of egypt that many believed united upper and lower egypt around 3000 BC
Pharaoh
The god-Kings of egypt
Theocracy
Government headed by religous leaders or a leader regarded as a god
Pyramid
Huge structures where they put their deceased queens kings and pharaohs
Mummifaction
They believe in the after life so they preserve their bodies
Only rich important people did this
Hieroglyphics
Eygptian form of writing
Kinda like letters in pictures
Papyrus
Eygptians wrote on their paper
Indian Subcontinent
The landmass that includes pakistan, india and bangladash
Monsoon
The seasonal wind that brings rain or dry heat usually occurs in India or other southern asian countries
Mandate from Heaven
There is a mandate from heaven that this leader is or isnt good enough to take the throne
China would only pick one leader that has the approval of the gods
Dynastic Cycle
The rise, fall and replacement of dynasties
How the chinese dynastie would come into power and over time quickly becomes crupt
They blame the leaders but the real person who does it is the Gods and thats how the gods show is the leader isnt the right one to lead
Feudalism
A political system (a way to organize) in which the king gives land to lords/nobles and in return they vow loyality and military service to the king
Used in China, Japan, and Europe
Feudal Society
King, Nobles & Lords, Knights, and Pheasants/serfs
Ancient Civilization Project
Egyptians
Political
Economic
Geography
Social
Zhou (Gabe, Bryce, Tanyon, and Nathan)
Political
The zhou dynasty started in 1046 till 256 BCE
Feudal system -King- tenants in chef-knights/lords-pheasants
King wu lead 50,000 troops against shang army of 700,000
Many Shangs troops joined King Wus cause they didnt like Shang
King wu won and Shang king commited suicide
Econimic
Nobles owned the farm land
Iron tools increased harvest
Used coins for money
AGRICULTURE
Was important to all eras
Geography
Located in China
Protected pretty well by natural borders
Man made barriers making it square like
Its a rain forest
Social
Religon
Confusianism and Taoism (live your life to the fullest, enjoy life)
Ying yang (chinese symbol)
Education
2 diff schools called State school (for rich) and Village School (seperate into 3 diff levels Shu, Xiang, and Xu Xiao)
Art
Bonze sulpture
Entertainment
Play music
Kites were invented
Board and card games
Gender Roles
Women
Treated as inferior men to men
And did whatever men told them to do
Men
Advancements
DEvelp waterways
Used Dyed yarns
Started Record astronomy
Geographry Maps
Phoenicians
And ancient civiliztion made of city-states which were along the coast of the medittarian sea
Began in 3200 BCE and established by 2750 BCE
Had lots of forest and woods
Lots of snow-capped mountains (helped cooled down desert land) so lots of natural boundaries
Led by Hereditary Monarchy
Alongside king was the Council of Elders
Matters of government were carried out by the priestly class and elite households
Sea fairy- travelling by sea
Priests came from royal families
Power of king was told about in the old testiment
3200 BC -300 bc
Barely formed alliances with each other
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