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Hominids - ANS 1- Appeared 3 to 4 million years ago in southern and eastern Africa
2- Human-like species
3- Mary and Louis Leakey discovered hominid fossils in the Great Rift Valley
4- Bipedalism-walking upright, large brain-thoughts can be abstract, and
larynx-complex speech
Neolithic Age - ANS 1- Also called New Stone Age (8000 - 5000 B.C.E.)
2- Tamed animals and plants
3- Agriculture developed independently in some areas but it also spread through
cultural diffusion
4- People settled and complex societies
Bantu Migration - ANSWER 1- Movement of Africans across the continent of Africa 3000
B.C.E. - 500 C.E.
2- Bantus spread the knowledge of iron and agriculture and either absorbed,
conquered, and/or annihilated the people they encountered
3- Bantu culture and language spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa
Olmecs - ANSWER 1- The name means "rubber people" for they are named after trees
from the region in which they flourished
2- Centers of Olmec society: San Lorenzo, La Venta, and Tres Zapotes in Central
America
3- Agriculture (Corn)
4- Famous sculpture: gigantic human heads
,Mayan Civilization - ANSWER 1- Located in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala,
Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador
2- Classical Maya ruled from ca. 300-900 C.E.
2- Agriculture: cotton, maize, cacao
3- Achievements: writing, calendrical system accurate
4- Built eighty ceremonial ceremonial capitals, which included pyramids; capitals
included the expansive centers like Palenque, Chichén-Itzá, and Tikal
5- About 800 C.E. the people abandoned the cities
Teotihuacán - ANSWER 1- City built in central Mexico
2- At height, about 400-600 C.E. 200,000 persons
3- Two most important monuments: massive pyramids of the sun and the moon
4- Art expresses a theocracy - priests were essential for survival of society- maintained
calendar and organized planting and harvesting
Chavín - ANSWER 1- Since the Olmec civilization was also flourishing in Mesoamerica
during this period, this state ruled an incredibly densely settled region that
encompassed both the Peruvian coastal plain and the foothills of the Andes
2- The coast of Peru has scant rainfall and in some places is exceedingly narrow, but the
abundance of fish and other sea life provided a reliable supply of food
3- The capital Chavín de Huántar, was set in a high mountain valley at a junction of trade
routes
4- Part of its influence seems to be based on its religion
Deng Xiaoping - ANSWER 1- In 1976, he replaced Mao Zedong as the leader of
communist China
2- He introduced economic reforms but little extension of individual political rights
3- Four Modernizations: an attempt to promote trade and contact with the West
4- He reformed land distribution and allowed some private ownership
5- However, he ordered troops to crush the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen
Square
,OPEC - ANSWER 1- Organization of oil-producing countries founded in 1960
2- Member countries Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
3- Objective: regulation of oil supply and price through cooperation among member
countries
Mikhail Gorbachev - ANSWER 1- Served as USSR leader from 1985 until 1991
2- Implemented such reforms as glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring of
the economy)
3- Allowed people to speak out against the Soviet state
4- Backed free-market reforms
5- Agreed not to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine, instead allowed Eastern bloc nations to
determine their own political futures
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOS) - ANSWER 1- A group that has no connection
to a government; not funded by one government
2- Example includes The International Red Cross: an international humanitarian agency,
created to help prisoners of war, the wounded, and civilians in wartime; later extended
to peacetime
3- Greenpeace: An environmental organization; its goal is to preserve earth's natural
resources and wildlife
Zheng He - ANSWER 1- A eunuch admiral who led seven exploratory voyages for Ming
China from 1405 to 1433
2- Led expeditions to SE Asia, Ceylon, India, the Persian Gulf, Arabia, and the East
African coast, establishing tributary relations
3- Ming emperors abruptly stopped funding Zheng He's expeditions due to the belief that
money would be better spent on agriculture and defense against Northern nomads
Confucius - ANSWER 1- Lived in the Age of Warring States period in China
2- Wanted to restore order
, 3- Believed in Five Relationships: Emperor-Subject, Father-Son, Husband-Wife, Elder
Brother-Younger Brother, Friend-Friend
4- The superior in the relationship had to set a moral example while the inferior had to
obey
More on Confucianism - ANSWER 1- The best way to promote good government is to hire
people who were well educated and conscientious
2- Focused on the formation of Junzi ("superior individuals")
3- Ren (courteousness, respectfulness, and loyalty)
4- Li (a sense of propriety, appropriate behavior)
5- Xiao (filial piety, respect by children for parents and other elders)
Daoism - ANSWER 1- An alternative solution to end the Warring States period in China -
contrary to Confucian beliefs
2- Central concept - "The Way of Nature"
3- Humans should stop trying to achieve personal goals and live very simply in order to
achieve harmony with nature
4- Wuwei - important moral trait whereby people remove themselves from worldy affairs
5- Yin Yang - how seeming contrary forces are interconnected
Legalism - ANSWER 1- One of the major philosophies that emerged from the Hundred
Schools of Thought during the Warring States period
2- The goal - expanding and strengthening the state at all costs
3- Strict laws with harsh punishments lessen the number and serverity of crimes
4- Key Legalist thinker - Han Feizi
5- Used by Qin dynasty, during rule of Shi Huangdi to end Warring States period
Qin Dynasty - ANSWER 1- Utilized Legalist thought to restore order and stability to China
and end Warring States period
2- Centralized bureaucracy
3- Unified China
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