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