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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 •Animism – belief that all things have a soul • Daoism/Taoism – harmony with nature 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