study guide

1. Define barter economy__________________________________________ 2. Define Nomad _________________________________________3. What did the Sumerians invent?____________________________________________________________4. Define hieroglyphics______________________________________________________________5. What were the pyramids used for? __________________________________________________________6.Who made up Cuneiform? _____________________7. Where was it used? __________________________8. Who used it?_______________________________9. Where is the fertile crescent located? _________________________________10. What did the Phoenicians do? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________11. Who lived in New Delhi? ___________________________________________ 12. What religion had an empire in India? ________________________________13. Who introduced it? _____________________________________________14. Define monsoons _________________________________________________15. What are the four social castes?____________________________________________________________________16. According to the caste system, what determines your status for life?___________________________________________________17. Define Hinduism ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________18. Which religion influenced the political and social standings of India and China?__________________________________________________________________19. Who was the founder of Buddhism? __________________________________20. Who helped to spread Buddhism, and what empire did it spread in?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________21. What is the Mandate of Heaven? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________22. What dynasty built the Great Wall of China? ____________________________23. Define Daoism _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________24. In Confucianism, who ranked higher, the merchants or the peasants?__________________________________________________________________25. Define Legalism _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________26. What was the hierarchieal system of Japan (social classes)________________________________________________________________________________________________, _______________27.Define Shintoism__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________28. Polis is a ______________29. T or F the Greek city states were isolated from eachother.30. Define Monarchy____________________________ Define Aristocracy___________________________ Define Tyranny______________________________ Define Democracy____________________________31. Plato wrote__________________32. Who was the father of history? _____________________________33. Who fought in the Persian War?34. Peloponnesian War was fought between who? ___________________________35. Define Polytheism_________________________________________________36. What were the 2 social classes of Rome and list in superiority______________________________________________________37. Define Leigons_____________________38. The Punic wars were fought between who and for what reason? _______________________________________________________________________________39. What offered early hope and salvation to the Romans? ____________________40. T or F- The Romans had a general tolerance of religious differences.41. Fall of Rome was because of: (3 reasons)______________________________________________________________________________________________________42. Art and Literature had a _____________________ influance.43. The Byzantime empire preserved ______________________________________________________________________________________________________44. Justinian Code preserved ________________________________________45. What did the Mongols Rule provide?__________________________________46. Who founded Islam? __________________________________________47. What is the reason for the disunity between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________48. Name three Islamic Empires in Africa_________________________________________________________________________________49. What was Mecca?_________________________________________________50. Which leader traveled there? _______________________________51. What was Timbuktu? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________52. Why did Axum prosper? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________53. Complete the feudal hierarchy system__________________________(ruler)________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (worked the land)54. What code were knights expected to follow? ____________________________55. Who signed the Magna Carta, What year, and what did it do? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________56. Who fought in the Hundred Year’s War? ________________________________________________________________________________________________57.Who was Joan of Arc? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________58. Define heresy ___________________________________________________59. Who was the Head of the Church? _____________________60. During what years did the Black Plague decrease the population of Europe?__________________________________________________________________61. What was the purpose of the Crusades? _______________________________62. What were the outcomes of the Crusades? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________63. What did Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain do?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________64. Define Reconquista?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________65.Where did the Renaissance originate?__________________________________________________________________66. What was the Renaissance?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________67. Who painted the Sistine Chapel?_______________________________________________________68. Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________69. Who was Bacon?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________70.What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?_______________________________________________________71.What did printing and the moveable type lead to?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________72. What was the Protestant Reformation?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________73. Explain the Inquisition ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________74. Define Shintoism_______________________________________________________75. Define Polytheism_______________________________________________________76. HinduismHoly Book-________________________Believe in-_______________________________77. BuddhismFounder-____________________________________________Who is the enlightened one? ______________________________________What places did the teaching influance?_______________________________________________________78. ConfusianismFounder-________________________________Basic Philosiphy-______________________,_____________________________,_______________________________________________________79. DaoismFounder- _______________________________________________________Explain “the way” __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________80. JudiaismFounder-_______________________________________________________Holy Place- _______________________________________________________81. ChristianityFounder- _______________________________________________________Holy Books- _______________________________________________________Holy Place- _______________________________________________________82. IslamFounder- _______________________________________________________Holy Places- _______________________________________________________Holy Book- _______________________________________________________Basic Tenets- 1)____________________________________ 2)___________________________________What was the counter Reformation?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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OHEMGEE !!!!!!MRS MIDIGFEIOGFKDNFAIYV[IT0YISDGSKI LIVES IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! OMFG OMFG. I HATE HER. AND SHE HATES ME. ohmyvinh,its not safe to go outside anymore.on the sane side.. IgNoReMe06: affirmatory - thats an order IgNoReMe06: wtf IgNoReMe06: is that a wordhah. donno if thats sane. cookiesNcream566: What the el-heck-o?or that. Broknprettything: inject some humor into my life cookiesNcream566: Umm....Why did the chicken cross the road? Broknprettything: to get away from the psycho homicidal one footed bird chasing after it with a cleaver? cookiesNcream566: Nope. cookiesNcream566: Nice try. Broknprettything: ehhhhh.. avril lavigne was trying to strangle it with her tie? cookiesNcream566: haha, nope. Broknprettything: because he was crossing jog road so he could die and be rid of mrs mieeiuiubduoiugski? cookiesNcream566: Becuase there was a duckie on the the other side, and ducks are cooler than chickens....way cooler.ahhh, save me.

awwww freak out

on the phone with Jt. and hes freaking out because he cant see erica for 2 weeks when shes gone in new york. *sobs* cry me a blanking river. anyhow, went to the mall with erica today, but not before i finished my damned chart for mieczoihbuiebwuiedyiski. god, shes a slave driver, that was hard. we got JT, my brother, cyndi, and cameron presents. we already had vinhs. and might i say, it was a bitch to wrap vinh's present. dude, corduroy+tape=mess. but we did it. with electrical tape. the black kind. we were gonna be super mean and hot glue it, and bring him a boxcutter to open it with, but there were 2 problems with that...1-we couldnt find the hot glue gun2-if we brought him a boxcutter to open the present with, the boxcutter would either be confiscated or he would be shot.so, yeah. number 2 basically.. no. we dont want him shot. Jt is getting under my skin. "damn subdermal irritance" ahaha daria. i love that show. it seriously kicks. o0o0oh math tomorrow. and english. im shaking in anticipation. i do believe i have english homework, but who the eff cares? ill copy it from either of the dianas or somebody who i equally adore.

...this air is blessed, you share with me...

yaaaa im tired. i must have eaten zillions of mints this weekend. i swear. my mom bought me this funny tin of mints with a happy bunny on the front, and i ate like 50 mints. im the same way the gum. probably going to the mall with erica today. to buy all of our lovely lovely ATL friends regalos para la felicidad.

hanukkah greeting cards

i got a spiffy card today. its great. Broknprettything: hey BlkBlt2001: hey Broknprettything: i got a card today... BlkBlt2001: lol from? Broknprettything: "the bachelis family" Broknprettything: lol BlkBlt2001: no way BlkBlt2001: o shit Broknprettything: i swear it BlkBlt2001: she didnt Broknprettything: she did Broknprettything: tuba.. sarah.. books BlkBlt2001: crapahah how great is that? thats mean of his parents to do to him, though. he hates pictures as much as i do, which is a huge amount of hate for pictures. to make him sit and POSE (which sucks more) and then to have hin know that the picture was going to be sent out to peple all over the US (ahaha).. thats just torquemada-style for him.happy hanukkah next week.