History Flashcards
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Herman Cortez
Spanish explorer
Conquered - Aztec
Pre-Columbia
Central (meso) America
Claimed Mexico on behalf of Spain
Ancient India
Indus Valley 3300-1700
Verdic Period- Hindu
Chaste system -
Invaded by Persia and Asia, was easy to conquer
Meso- region
New Babylon
700-500 b.c.
Earl ancient Civilization
Leader of Assyria his son built new Babylon
Chaldeans- studied stars , came from south Babylon, conquered Meso, Syria and Palestine
New empire under Nebuchadnezzar
- created bureaucracy
- Hanging Garden
- for his wife to remember where she came from 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD
MESOPATAMIA- REGION
MIDDLE EAST
BABYLON CIVILIZATIONS
200-1500 bc
Early ancient Civilization
Capital : Babylonia
Hammurabi- Ruler
Legal Code of Hammurabi
Centralized government
Wrote on scribes
Ziggurats
Language : Acadia
360 degree circle
60 minute = hour
Arabia
Islam
Caliph ruled
Arabian penisula
Later ottoman took over 1300-1900
Ur
Metal working
Midieval and early modern Asia
CHINA
Monogols conquered 1200s
Gen ghost Khan?
Largest empire
Let the kings rule but made them pay a tax to them
Midieval early Modern Africa civilizations
AFRICA
Traded with Islam because they were similar in their ethics
Islam spread to Africa
Saudi Arabia flourished because of the sea ports
Simbabwea gain wealth rom Gold / trade
Central America
OLMEC
Meso America
Mayan Adopted Much of culture
Build pyramids
Ancient Greek
EAC
City-state
Manifest destiny
Expansion from the pacific to the Atlantic
Control North America
Early ancient civilization
Mesopotamia region
Open land easy invasion
Civilization started
Neothic revolution- hunter and gathering to farming and civilization
Ideal farming because of water
Fertile Crescent- between Tigris and Euphrates
Alphabet
Phoenicians - consonants
Greeks- vowels
Romans
then entire world
Egypt pyramids
Meso- Region
Early western civilization
Pyramids - house for the dead
Mummified the dead
Hieroglyphics- early writing “ what Joseph was reading when he found out about what pharaoh did to the babies.”
Giza- one of the 7 wonders ?
Known for :
Math
Medicine
meso- regions
Middle East
Hittites
2000-700 b.c
EAC
Iron smelting
Conquered most fo Meso and Asia
Copied Egypt- remembers on exam if it has option for Kush but sounds like Egypt it is Kush
Capital: Hattusas was burned
Chariots
Now turkey
Fled west to flee Greeks
Fell to Assyrian
United Farm Workers of Movement
1960s
-paid farmers poorly
-treated farmers un fairly
-poor living conditions
- boycotted for LABOR REFORM
Began Delano CA
Paid little for difficult work
Spanish
- missions
Forced Christianity - ## travels through California mountains and deserts
Pio Pico
Was a nice man who was against the cruelty of the Mexican government
American Revolution
- high tariffs
- Intolerable acts
-quarterings of Bristish soldiers to prevent rebellion - killed American citizens
-Boston’s massacare - 7 years war with French and Indians and Spanish caused them to be broke and they started to charge colonist more money.
Advantages of North VS south
North- everything
- tried to capture the capital
-starve them out
- larger population
- greater man power
Transportation network
South-
Experience military
- got money from cash crops
Puritans
Common bible Wealth
First interaction with American Indians
Left Europe to seek more pure religion
Killed witches in the US
Massachusetts bay colony
Renaissance Means
Rebirth of:
Art, culture, history,
Advances in learning ( Galeio said plants go around the sun and Rome was upset)
Scientific method started
What is scientific method ?
Magna Carta
Democratic
Take away power of monarch government
Collections of writings to force King Henry to limit the power of king and influenced the development of democracy
Industrialized Revolution
Middle class started
-prosperity and political class increased
- before only the rich owned land the poor stayed poor but with the revolution the middle class didn’t need to own land and could work their way to a different class.
-Rural to urban
- international trade
- increased weaving and iron working
-vast expansion of roadway improvement and waterways
- More dependent on trade with other countries