Global History

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Global History Geography

• Word Association
• Flashcards 2

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Animism

• Practiced in Africa
• Similar to Shintoism / spirits in nature
• Traditional African societies

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Shintoism

• Spirits in nature
• Practiced in Japan
• A form of animism

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Cultural Diffusion

• Exchange of ideas between different cultures
• Buddhism spreading from India into China
  Southeast Asia
• Occurs along trade routes Silk Road

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Interdependence

• Growing trade and dependence among nations
• Environmental and ecological concerns
• Oil OPEC nations

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Ancient Athens

• Birthplace of democracy
• Questioning spirit and curiosity
• Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens

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Ancient Sparta

• Early form of a totalitarian government
• Militaristic spirit
• Little culture

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Roman Republic

• Elected leaders
• Twelve Tables of Law
• Goddess of Justice

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Imperial Rome 27 AD 476 AD

• Centralized government
• All roads lead to Rome
• Collapsed in 476 AD and led to chaos and disorder
  in Europe
• Collapse led to the rise of Feudalism

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Byzantine Empire300 AD 1453 AD

• Justinians Code / preservation of Greek and
  Roman thought
• Capital city (Constantinople) important trading
  center
• Eastern Orthodox religion and cultural diffusion
  with Russia

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Justinian Code

• Roman Law
• Preservation of Classical Civilization

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Constantinople

• Trading center between Europe and Asia

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Silk Road

• Cultural diffusion
• Trade between Europe Asia
• Spread of Buddhism

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Spread of Islam

• Northern Africa
• Mohammed the Jihad
• 570-800 AD

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Golden Age of Islam800-1200 AD

• Advances in science and math
• Calligraphy
• House of Wisdom

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Medieval Europe500-1300 AD

• Feudalism / decentralized political system
• Powerful Catholic Church / Main Goal salvation
  (the hereafter)
• Gothic Cathedrals tall spires, stained glass
  windows

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Feudalism

• Rigid social class system
• Need for stability security and order
• Similar to Japanese feudalism

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Code of Chivalry

• Stressed honor and loyalty
• Similar to the Code of Bushido
• Code followed by medieval knights

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The Crusades1095-1300s AD

• Original purpose reclaim the Holy Land
  (Jerusalem)
• Positive result or effect increased trade
  between Asia and Europe
• Negative result or effect lasting hatred
  between Christians and Muslims

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Japanese Feudalism

• Code of Bushido
• Rigid social class system
• Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai

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Central Asian Steppe

• Environment of the Mongols
• Semi-arid and grassland
• Nomadic people until Genghis Khan

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Tokugawa Shogunate

• Isolation
• Forbade contact with foreigners
• Ended in 1868

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Mongol Empire1200s-1400s

• Spread from Asia to Eastern Europe
• Tributes and taxes given to the Khans
• Isolated Russia for several centuries

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Axum Kush

• Early African trading civilization Salt Gold
• Eastern Africa
• Cultural Diffusion - Christianity

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Ghana, Mali, Songhai

• Early African trading Salt Gold
• Western Africa
• Cultural Diffusion - Islam from Northern Africa

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Renaissance1400s -1500s

• Humanism Individualism questioning spirit
• Rebirth of the ideals of classical civilizations
  (Greece Rome)
• Secularism

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Black Plague1348-1351

• Social and economic collapse
• Breakdown of Feudalism
• End of the Middle Ages

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Machiavelli

• End justifies the means
• Interests of the state and leader are more
  important
• The Prince