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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
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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
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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