Islam
God is ALLAHProphet is Mohamad
Qur’an is their holy book
Crusades
• Military campaigns launched by Christian Leaders in Europe. Goal was to recapture the holy land. (Jerusalem)
Migration
• Moving from one area to another.
• Drought: long period without rain.
• Push factors: things that would cause people to leave a place.
• Pull Factors: things that would cause people to come to a place.
Cultural Diffusion
• The spreading of ideas and culture.
Constantinople
• Became the major center of trade and interaction in the Roman Empire. Constantine moved the Capital from ROME to CONSTANTINEOPLE.
The Crusades
• A violent religious conflict. Christians wanted back Jerusalem their holy land.
The Great wall of China
• Keep of foreign invaders. Stretches 40000 miles across northern china.
The Silk Road
• Trading route that stretched from eastern asia to the Mediterranean6 sea.
Agriculture
Farming.Domesticated Animals: animals raised in
captivity to use for food and labor. CATTLE HORSES DOGS
Specialization
• People focus on a specific thing. • I specialize in social studies• Mrs. Hale specialized in English and Reading.
Sumerians
• First Mesopotamian civilization .
• Ziggurat: sun-baked brick shrines for the gods. I was built on top of a large tower.
Code Of Hammurabi
• 1st written set of laws. BABYLON leader Hammurabi
• An EYE for an EYE
Cuneiform
• Earliest known form of writing.
Sinai peninsula
• Sits between Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia.
• Armies fought over this territory for its trade route.
Bering land Bridge
• Allowed early humans who lived in Asia to migrate to north America.
Phoenicians
• Created the first written symbols to represent sounds.
• They also were great ship builders and explorers.
Indus River Valley
• Harappa and Mohenjo- Daro
Mycenae
• The 1st Greek city-state
Pharaohs
• King or queens of Egypt. • Looked at as Gods
Hieroglyphics
• Egyptians writing. Written on Papyrus.
China
• Huang He River or YELLOW RIVER: china’s second longest river.
• It is considered the Cradle of Chinese civilization.
• YANGTZE RIVER” China’s longest River.
Ideographs
• Ancient Chinese Writing. • These are characters that combine 2 or more
pictographs to represent an Idea.
China’s Dynasties
• Sui, • Tang,• Song
• They invented steel and GUNPOWDER…
Roman Government
• We get our government like our SENATE from the Romans.
• Also our alphabet from the early romans.
• They were a democracy.
Mandate of Heaven
• God raised them up to Rule.
The River of Sorrow
• The Haung He river or YELLOW river is called this because it can flood and kill thousands.
China and Silk
• Silk became one of its most important exports.
Spartans
• Centered their life as warriors.• They fought Athens in the Peloponnesian
wars.