9th Grade Beautiful Lovely Review for Global II Regents in June, 2013 1.
Primitive Man
a. Old Stone Age or Paleolithic Era
i. Tools/weapons were crude
ii. Nomads
iii. Lived in bands
iv. Clothing
v. Cave dwelling
vi. Decorated
vii. Made fire!!!!!
b. Neanderthal, Cro-Magnons and Homo sapiens
c. Neolithic Era
i. Better tools
ii. Bronze
iii. Organized governments
iv. Built cities
v. Industry
vi. Established trade of sorts
vii. Written records
2. How do we know about the above/below?
a. Anthropologists
b. Archeologists
c. Primary sources
d. Secondary source
3. The Role of Geography; how did any/all of the following affect the region/people/life
that live near these geographic elements or factors?
a. Rivers
i. Nile
ii. Amazon
iii. Tigris
iv. Euphrates
v. Hwang He
vi. Yangtze
vii. Indus
viii. Niger
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i. Himalayas
ii. Andes
iii. Greece
c. Valleys
i. Great Rift
ii. Mesopotamia
iii. Indus
d. Plains
i. Poland
ii. Llanos
iii. Pampas
e. Island location
i. Japan
ii. England
iii. Greece
f. Deep Harbours
i. Greece
ii. Great Britain
4. Early Ancient Civilizations
a. Africa
i. Kush
1. Location
2. Contributions
ii. Mali
1. Location
2. Contributions
a. Gold
b. Salt
iii. Axum
1. Location
2. Contributions
iv. Songhai
1. Location
2. Contributions
v. Timbuktu
1. Location
2. Contributions
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i. Geography
1. Nile
2. Natural boundaries
3. Government
4. Life
a. Pharaoh
b. Class division
c. Religion
d. Contributions?
i. Hieroglyphic
ii. Engineering
iii. Architecture
iv. Science
c. India
i. Geography
1. Monsoons
2. Himalayas
ii. Empires
1. Maurya Empire
2. Gupta Empire
iii. The Aryans
1. Vedas
2. Sanskrit
iv. Religion
1. Hindu
a. Caste system
b. Polytheism
2. Buddhism
a. Eightfold Path
b. The Vedas
d. China
i. Geography
1. Ethnocentrism
2. Yangtze & Hwang Ho
ii. Dynastic Rule
1. Chou
iii. Religion/Philosophy
1. Confucius
2. Lao-tse
9th Grade Review for June Regents ‐ Lovely Page 3 – Ruane  e. The Fertile Crescent
i. Mesopotamia
1. Geography
2. Tigris & Euphrates
ii. Babylonians
1. Code of Law
a. Justice
b. Women
c. Class division
f. Greece
i. Geography
1. Mountains
2. Deep harbours
3. Location
ii. Sparta & Athens
iii. Politics
iv. Democracy
1. Pericles
2. Draco
v. Wars
1. w/ Persia
2. Delian League
3. Peloponnesian Wars
vi. Alexander the Great
vii. Contributions
1. Math
2. Science
3. Architecture
a. columns
4. Philosophy
a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
g. Rome
i. Geography
ii. Governments
1. Republic
2. Dictatorship
a. Civil war
iii. Roman society
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2. Plebeians
iv. Fall of Rome
1. Germanic invasions
2. Reasons for the Fall of Rome?
a. Political
b. Economic
c. Economic
d. Military
v. Contributions
1. Law
2. Engineering
3. Literature
4. Language
5. The Middle Ages
a. The Dark Ages
b. Charlemagne, 800 AD
i. “Emperor of the Romans” [HRE]
c. Feudalism
i. Reasons for it
ii. Society
1. Economics
a. Serfs
b. Manor system
2. Social pyramid
a. Kings
b. Lords
c. knights
3. Primogeniture
iii. Factors leading to decline of feudalism
1. Crusades
2. Rise of Nation States
6. The Roman Catholic Church
a. RC Church hierarchy
i. Pope
ii. Cardinals
iii. Bishop
iv. Priests
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b. Activities of RC Church
i. Religious
ii. Economic
iii. Cultural
iv. Political
c. Church struggles
i. Great Schism, 1378-1417 [time of Two Popes]
ii. Concordat of Worms, 1122
7. Other Major Religions
a. Islam
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
b. Hindu
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
c. Buddhism
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
d. Sikhism
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
e. Animism
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
f. Judaism
i. Beliefs
ii. How its affected region/government/people
8. The Byzantine & Moslem Empires
a. The Moslem Empires
i. The Mongols
1. Babar
2. Akbar
ii. Influence on…..
1. Religion
2. Architecture
iii. Mohammed, 570-632
1. Medina, Mecca, & Hegira
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3. Expansion of Moslem Empire
iv. The Turks
1. Seljuk Turks
2. Ottoman Empire
b. The Byzantines
i. Origins
ii. Emperor Justinian, 527-565
iii. Aspects of Byzantine life
1. Constantinople
2. Eastern Christianity
3. Autocratic government
iv. Contributions of Byzantine
1. Laws
2. Architecture
9. The Later Middle Ages
a. The Crusades, 1095-1291
i. Goals of Crusades?
ii. Results of Crusades
1. Weakened serfdom
2. ↑ trade
3. ↑ power of kings
b. Revival of Trade and Towns
i. Conditions of towns?
1. Black death/Plague, 1347-1350
ii. Guilds
1. Craft
2. Merchant
3. The Apprentice, the Journeyman, & the Master
iii. Rise of the Bourgeoisie/middle class
c. Life in these times
i. Architecture
1. Romanesque
2. Gothic
10. The Renaissance
a. Definition
b. Starts in Italy – why?
c. Humanism
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e. Literature
i. Machiavelli
ii. Shakespeare
iii. Cervantes
f. Art
i. The “Ninja Turtles”
1. Donatello
2. Leonardo
3. Michelangelo
ii. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
1. Realism, detail, perfection
2. Religious themes vs. Secular/daily life
g. Science
i. Challenged medieval superstitions
ii. Observations, experimentations, scientific method
iii. Scientific progress
h. Scientific achievements
i. Copernicus
ii. Francis Bacon
iii. Sir Isaac Newton
11. The Protestant Reformation
a. Causes
i. Intellectual
ii. Economic
iii. Political
iv. Abuses
b. Martin Luther
i. Ninty-five Thesis, 1517
c. Results of Prod. Reformation
i. Religious wars
ii. Increased power of monarchs
iii. A divided Europe
12. The Counter Reformation
a. The Council of Trent [1545-1563]
i. Holy Inquisition
ii. Society of Jesus [Jesuits]
b. Results
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a. Magna Carta [1215]
b. Parliament
i. House of Commons
ii. Parliament victorious in Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
1. Roundheads vs. Cavaliers
c. Habeas Corpus Act, 1679
d. Glorious Rebellion, 1688 [William and Mary]
i. Bill of Rights, 1689
ii. Toleration Act, 1689
e. John Locke
i. Two Treatises of Government
14. Rise of Nation States/Absolutism
a. Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
b. Despots vs. Enlightened Despots
c. Divine Right
d. Absolutism
i. England [Tudors vs. Stuarts]
1. Elizabeth I
2. Charles I
3. James II and Glorious Rebellion, 1688
ii. France
1. King Louie XIV
iii. Austria
1. The Hapsburg Dynasty
a. Maria Teresa
b. Joseph II
iv. Prussia
1. The Hohenzollern Dynasty
a. Frederick the Great
v. Russia
1. The Romanov Dynasty
a. Peter the Great, 1682-1725
b. Catherine the Great, 1762-1796
15. The Commercial Revolution/Era of Exploration [1500’s] – here’s what the Europeans
found upon entering the Western Hemisphere
a. The Aztec [Mexico]
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c.
d.
e.
i. Government
ii. Life
iii. Contributions
The Mayan [Mexico & Guatemala]
i. Government
ii. Life
iii. Contributions
The Incas [Andes region]
i. Government
ii. Life
iii. Contributions
Natives [Indian]
i. Contributions
Factors aiding expansion
i. Trade
1. Colombian Exchange
ii. Curiosity
iii. $$ of Nation States
iv. Scientific progress
v. The 3G’s
1. God
a. Treaty of Tordesillas/Line of Demarcation
2. Gold
3. Glory
vi. Examples of European nations exploring
1. Portugal
a. Brazil
2. Spain
a. Latin America
3. England
a. India, the “Jewell”
vii. Results of Era of Exploration?
1. Mercantilism
2. Shift in power
3. Capitalism
4. World trade
16. The Enlightenment
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