MY WORLD HISTORY Flashcards
3 periods of Mesozoic eara-name them.
Triassic,
Jurassic,
and Cretaceous periods.
Name the three periods of Roman history?
Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC),
Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) ‘
Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.
How old is the Earth?
Earth is 4.5 billion years old
How old is the universe?
The universe is 13.8 billion years old
What and when was the Mesozoic Era?
The Mesozoic Era is the age of the dinosaurs and lasted almost 180 million years from approximately 250 to 65 million years ago.
Name the three traditional divisions of western history.
- classical antiquity, 8th century BC to 6th century AD
- the medieval period
- the modern period.
Palaeozoic
Paleozoic Era, also spelled Palaeozoic, major interval of geologic time that began 541 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years ago with the end-Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history.
Pre Cambrian
What was the Enlightenment?
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas about openness, investigation, and religious tolerance throughout Europe and the Americas
What are the four main eras?
PreCambrian
Palaeozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
What was the Enlightenment?
What was the Renaissance?
Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art.
When and what was the Age of Enlightenment?
- Intellectual and philosophical movement during the 18th century. —Started 1687 with Newton’s Principia Mathematica.
- Based on idea that reason is the primary source of knowledge
When and what were the EARLY MIDDLE AGES?
- sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages
- lasting from the 5th century to the 10th century.
- They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.
- The period saw a continuation of trends evident since late classical antiquity, including population decline, especially in urban centres, a decline of trade, a small rise in global warming and increased migration.
When and what were the high middle ages?
- The High Middle Ages, lasted from around 1000 to 1250 CE.
- Key historical trends of the High Middle Ages include the rapidly increasing population of Europe
- increasing population brought about great social and political change
- By 1250, the robust population increase had greatly benefited the European economy, which reached levels that would not be seen again in some areas until the 19th century.
- That trend faltered during the Late Middle Ages because of a series of calamities, most notably the Black Death, but also numerous wars as well as economic stagnation.
When and what were the late middle ages?
The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 CE. Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death, reduced the population to around half of what it was before the calamities.[2] Along with depopulation came social unrest and endemic warfare. France and England experienced serious peasant uprisings, such as the Jacquerie and the Peasants’ Revolt, as well as over a century of intermittent conflict, the Hundred Years’ War. To add to the many problems of the period, the unity of the Catholic Church was temporarily shattered by the Western Schism. Collectively, those events are sometimes called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.[3]
