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Before Persians Hittites 1400 BCE Nomadic warriors Assyrians Fierce warriors Orderly Libraries Cultural homogeneity Babylonians 612 BCE Defeated Assyrians Rebuilt temples, canals, palaces Hanging gardens Astronomy Tigris-Euphrates Persian Empire 539 BCE Babylon falls to Persians Cyrus the Great Largest empire during its time Centered on trade crossroads Spreads from Egypt through Mesopotamia to Indus river valley Cyrus the Great (580-529 BCE) Tolerant Law giver Favored by Jews Darius the Great (526-485 BCE) Expansion Builds a canal in Egypt to promote trade Called himself a pharaoh To connect to the Egyptians Builds Persepolis Palace Zoroastrianism Indo-european religion stressing ritual purity Zoroaster = priest of this religion 1500 BCE

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Before Persians Hittites 1400 BCE Nomadic warriors Assyrians Fierce warriors Orderly Libraries Cultural homogeneity Babylonians 612 BCE Defeated Assyrians Rebuilt temples, canals, palaces Hanging gardens Astronomy Tigris-Euphrates Persian Empire 539 BCE Babylon falls to Persians Cyrus the Great Largest empire during its time Centered on trade crossroads Spreads from Egypt through Mesopotamia to Indus river valley Cyrus the Great (580-529 BCE) Tolerant Law giver Favored by Jews Darius the Great (526-485 BCE) Expansion Builds a canal in Egypt to promote trade Called himself a pharaoh To connect to the Egyptians Builds Persepolis Palace Zoroastrianism Indo-european religion stressing ritual purity Zoroaster = priest of this religion 1500 BCE

World Civilizations Notes Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers Hunting and gathering economies dominated human history until 9000 BCE helped propel migration over most of the lands on earth Human origin = 2.5 million years ago 1/4000 of earth?s existence; 5 minutes / 24-hour day Drawbacks: aggressive against their own kind dependent babies limited the adult women back problems due to the upright stature death fears tensions Achievements: grip reproduction omnivores facial expressions aids communication distinctive brain & speech culture Human Life Before Agriculture Human societies spread widely geographically Tool use gradually improved in the hunter-gatherer economy

Ways of the World Notes Chapter 3

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Chapter 3: First Civilizations ? Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500?500 B.C.E. ?escape from civilization? constraints, artificiality, hierarchies, and other discontents greater oppression and inequality I. Something New: The Emergence of Civilizations independent global phenomenon A. Introducing the First Civilizations 1. Sumer, Egypt, & Nubia, 3500?3000 B.C.E. 2. Norte Chico, 3000?1800 B.C.E. Supe River Valley, along the central coast of Peru desert, little rainfall, dozens of rivers monumental architecture, large public ceremonial structures, stone residential buildings & other signs of urban life economy based on an extremely rich fishing industry quipu, may have been an alternative form of writing smaller cities with no defense walls

Early Man And River Valleys

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Early Man and River Valleys Review Characteristics of a Civilizations Advanced cities with large populations Complex/organized institutions (religion & government) New tools/technology Specialized workers Writing development/record keeping Hominids Early human-like creatures Australopithecus Very first hominid Homo Erectus ?Upright human? ? more advanced, used varied tools, first hominid to leave Africa for Europe/Asia Neanderthal Early humans who relied on stone tools and were the first to bury their dead Homo sapien sapien The first anatomically modern humans (wise, wise human being) Replaced Neanderthals Paleolithic Age ?Old Stone Age? early period of human history who made the first stone tools Hunters/Gatherers Nomadic/Followed animals

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Chapter 2 Section 4 Groupwork Why were the Assyrians so successful at conquering others? What were some of harsh tactics used by the Assyrians? How were the Persian and the Assyrian Empires different politically and socially? What caused the Persian Empire to decline after the death of Darius?
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Chapter 30 Outline the Earth and its People

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Chapter 30: The Crisis for Imperial Order, 1900-1929 Introduction The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Global war The causes and consequences of the war Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East The Ottoman empire and the Balkans The ?Sick man of Europe? Territorial losses The Europeans meddle in Ottoman affairs and Ottoman reaction The new regime (1909) Nationalism, alliances and military strategy Nationalism: unity and division Nationalism: liberty or vengeance? Alliances Inflexible military planning and mobilization The declaration of war and German plans The ?Great War? and the Russian Revolution, 1914-1918 Stalemate, 1914-1917 The character of war changed The western front, machine guns and trenches

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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Erica Gonzales Pd.1 AP World History 09/14/12 Chapter 3: The Mediterranean & Middle East 2000-500 B.C.E. ? Late Bronze Age & Early Iron Age peoples migrated & resettled in the Mediterranean lands & western Asia, ? Influences from older centers in Mesopotamia & Egypt penetrated throughout western Asia & the Mediterranean. ? 2nd millennium B.C.E.= Many societies of the Eastern Hemisphere entered the Iron Age. ? Iron Age= use if iron instead of bronze for tools and weapons ? Three societies: - Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia - Israelites of Israel - Phoenicians of Lebanon & Syria ? These societies evolved into new political, cultural, & commercial centers, after the decline of the dominant ancient centers throughout the 3rd & 2nd millennium B.C.E.

AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY Chapter 1 Review

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AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHAPTER 1 Larger Concept Section Review Vocabulary Terms Details BEFORE CIVILIZATION Food Gathering and Stone Tools -Around 10,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Age, humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Civilization-ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits Culture- socially transmitted patterns of action and expression History- study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices

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