Egypt Global Review Chart: Page 1 CIVILIZATIONS Civilization River Characteristics Mesopotamia India Nile Tigris & Euphrates Ganges Indus - Mummification - Pyramids - Social Classes (Pharaoh) - Gift of the Nile River (Flooding) - Polytheism - Hieroglyphics (writing) - Ziggurats (temples) - Cuneiform (Writing) - Code of Hammurabi - Epic of Gilgamesh - Fertile Crescent - Caste System (rigid/strict) - Ganges is sacred - Monsoons (Seasonal Winds) - Hinduism China Yellow River Yangtze - Huang He (River of Sorrows) - Isolated by Himalayan Mountains - Dynasties - Great Wall / Silk Road Roman Empire Tiber River - Republic - Control Mediterranean Sea Trade - Pax Romana (Peace) - Julius Caesar as dictator
Global Review Chart: Page 2 GOVERNMENTS Government Type Major Features Examples Democracy/Republic Feudalism - Representatives - Voting (People have a say in government) - Senate/Congress - Checks/Balance - Based on the Manor - Knights/Serfs/Lords - Exchange protection for service - Decentralized (broken up) - Athens Greece (Direct Democracy) - Rome (Republic) - Separation of Powers - Middle Ages (Europe) - Japan (Tokugawa Shogunate) - Samurai Divine Right - Right to Rule comes from God - Similar to Mandate of Heaven in China - Support Monarchies - European Kings/ Queens Absolutism/ Monarchy - Monarch has total control of the people - Machiavelli (Ends Justify the Means) - Better to be feared than loved - Louis XIV - Peter the Great - Sulieman the Magnificant - Akbar the Great
Global Review Chart: Page 3 GOVERNMENTS Government Type Major Features Examples Dynastic Rule - Mandate of Heaven - Chinese Empires - Rule for a time, then collapse, then a new one starts again - Han (Silk Road) - Qin (Wall of China) - Tang-Song (golden age) Totalitarianism/ Fascism Communism/ Socialism - State Control of Society - Secret Police - Propaganda - Total Control of Society - Dictatorship - one party system - classless society - factors of production - secret police - prisons - marxism - Nazi Germany - Mussolini s Italy - Franco s Spain - USSR - Cuba - N. Korea - Vietnam - China Theocracy - religious control of government - laws are based on religion - Saudi Arabia - Iran - Afghanistan - Pakistan
Global Review Chart: Page 4 RELIGIONS Mono/Poly Book/Place of Worship Major Practices/Beliefs Animism Nature -Everything has a soul -Nature is sacred Shinto Shrine -Everything has a soul -Nature is sacred Areas Practiced - Africa - Japan Hinduism Vedas Mahabarata Bhavad- Gita - Caste System - Dharma (duties) - Karma (judgment) - Reincarnation - Moska (enlightenment) - India Buddhism Started by Siddhartha Guatama - Eightfold Path - Four Noble Truths - Nirvana - End Suffering Starts in India, goes to China via Silk Road, then Japan (Zen Buddhism)
Mono/Poly Book/Place of Worship Major Practices/Beliefs Global Review Chart: Page 5 RELIGIONS Areas Practiced Judaism Torah Talmund Temple -Ten Commandments - Monotheism - Zionism Israel Diaspora (Spreading of the Jews) Europe Christianity Bible Church Monotheism Jesus is the messiah Ten Commandments Were persecuted early on Europe starts in Roman Empire Islam Koran Mosque - 5 Pillars - Prayer 5 times daily - Pilgrimage to Mecca - Allah is God - Prophet Muhammad Mecca and Medina Middle East North Africa (Mali)
Global Review Chart: Page 6 PHILOSOPHY Philosophy Major Practices/Beliefs Areas Practiced Confucianism Daoism (Taoism) Legalism - Filial Piety (respect for elders) - Civil Service Exams - Family/Respect - Harmony w/ Nature - Yin/Yang - Balance in Life - Founded by Lao-Zi - Find the Dao - Strict laws - Harsh Punishments - Shi Hanugdi CHINA CHINA CHINA (Qin Dynasty) Marxism Socialism Leninism Communism Boshelivism Humanism - Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx / Engeles - Classless Society - Proletariat (Workers) - Revolution against rich - Individualism - The Human Body - Artwork - Sculpting USSR Cuba Communist Country Europe during Renaissance
Global Review Chart: Page 7 REVOLUTIONS Revolution Where When Effects/Impact/Changes Neolithic All over world - Civilizati ons 10,000 BCE Commercial Europe High Middle Ages - Permanent Settlements - Start Society - Farming - Ended Nomads - Capitalism - Banks/Money - Commerce/Trade Scientific Europe 1500s AD - Heliocentrism - Use observations/ facts (church loses) - Galileo/Newton/ French France 1790s - Reign of Terror - Robespierre - Middle Class Grows - Ended Estate System - Inspired other REVs Latin American Central/ South AM Nationalism in Europe Italy and German y 1800s - Simon Bolivar - THE Liberator - Inspired by French Rev&Enlightenment 1871 - Unification - Otto von Bismarck - Garibaldi & Mazzini - Led to WWI
Global Review Chart: Page 8 REVOLUTIONS Revolution Where When Effects/Impact/Changes Industrial ENGLA N 1st then Europe 1600-170 00s - Middle Class Grew - Urbanization - Pollution - Child Labor - Unions emerge to fight big business - Workers are treated poorly Russian USSR 1917 - Lenin overthrows Russia - Creates Communist country - Stalin Dictator Chinese China 1950 - Mao Zedong - Cultural REV - Great Leap Forward - Peasant Rebellion - Long March Cuban Cuba 1900s - Fidel Castro - Cuban Missile Crisis - Marxist Iranian Iran 1970s - Ayatollah Khomeini - Created Islamic State - Sharia Law - Overthrow of Shah
Global Review Chart: Page 9 TURNING POINTS Turning Point Description Effects/Impact/Changes Golden Age of Greece (5th Century BC) Empire of Alexander the Great Fall of Rome (476 AD) - Athens (Wisdom) - Philosophers (Plato, Socrates, etc ) - Direct Democracy - Delian League - Laws/Gov t - Rome borrows many ideas - Macedonia - Spread Greek ideas - HELLENISM (blending of Greek, Indian, Persian cultures) - Empire was invaded from the northern barbarians - Similar to Han Dynasty collapse - Leads to Dark Ages in WEST - Leads to Byzantine Empire in EAST Byzantine Empire Birth of Islam (622-632 AD) - Justinian Code - Hagia Sofia (church) - domed architecture - Cyrillic Alphabet - Constantinople - Mohammad - Mecca - Medina - Golden Age - Gets invaded by Ottoman Empire - Abbassid Empire - Golden Age of Islam - Math/Science
Global Review Chart: Page 10 TURNING POINTS Turning Point Description Effects/Impact/Changes Mongol Conquests (1200s) Fall of Constantinople (1453) - Genghis Khan - Kublai Khan - Took over China, Middle East, Russia - Horse - Composite Bow - Ottoman Empire invades - Byzantine collapses - VERY LARGE empire - Pax Mongolia (peace) - Constantinople becomes Istanbul - Islam spreads Renaissance Reformation The European Encounter w/ Americans (1492) - Artwork - Humanism - Da Vinci/ Michaelangeo - Starts in Italy - Protestant - Martin Luther (95 Thesis) - Indulgences - King Henry VII - Columbus - Native Americans had advanced society before - People began to become educated - Rebirth of Culture - Church begins to lose power - Breaks unity of Europe - Church Loses Power - Counter Reformation - Europe begins to conquer new world - Columbian Exchange - Middle Passage
Global Review Chart: Page 11 TURNING POINTS Turning Point Description Effects/Impact/Changes Meiji Restoration (1886) Rise of Dictators (1920s and 1930s) World War I (1914-1918) World War II (1914-1918) - Japan - Used to based on Samurai and were Isolated - Japan was opened - Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin - Facism in Europe - Nazi s in Germany - Totalitarian - Trench Warfare - MAIN causes - Assasination of Franz Ferdinand - Pearl Harbor - Invasion of Poland - D-Day - Atomic Bombs - Modernized Japan - Leads to Japanese Imperialism of East Asia - Brings back Stability - WWII - Treaty of Versailles - Reparations against Germany - Caused WWII - Austria broke up - Germany defeated - Cold War Begins Indian Independence (1947) - Gandhi - Civil Disobedience - Salt March - Peaceful Resistance - Protests - Indian gains independence from Britain - Democracy
Global Review Chart: Page 12 TURNING POINTS Turning Point Description Effects/Impact/Changes Creation of Israel (1947) Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan (1945) Breakup of the Soviet Union (1991) Apartheid in South Africa Islamic Revolutions (Arab Spring) - Modern - Balfour Declaration - Zionism - Jewish Homeland - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Berlin Wall Collapses - Detente - Perestroika and Glasnost (openness) - Nelson Mandela - Segregation - Civil Disobedience - Passive Resistance - Islamic Fundamentalism spreads across Africa and Middle East - Six Day War - Israel is almost always fighting for territory against Palestine - Ended WWII w/ Japan - Radiation - Starts Arms Race - Nuclear Proliferation - USSR becomes Russia again - Democratic state - Cold War over - Mandela goes to prison and then becomes 1st Black President of South Africa - Many dictators lose power - Islamic State s are created