Africa and the Atlantic world explores the trials and tribulations of Africans being forced from their homeland and sold into slavery. Africans endured such hardships and conditions that their souls vanished with the site of mother Africa. Europeans sold and forced slaves to cultivate sugar plantations for their own profits. The Americas‚ Europe and Africa were involved in a cross continental system of human trafficking. African men‚ woman and children were shipped across the Atlantic to the
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Sarah Campos AP World History (5th period) Mr. Jackson 10/8/14 Stearns Chapter 8: African Civilization and the Spread of Islam 1. There were some states whose rulers exerted authority through a network of officials but stateless societies were more common. These stateless societies were formed around kinship and other forms of commitments and were sometimes bigger and more extensive than states. There were many government types but a board of families or communities held power. However‚ this authority
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ROME 1. Macedonian professional army-advantages included a wide range of specialists‚ strict discipline and elimination of large numbers of noncombatant servants 2. Battle of Chaeronea- ended Greek city state freedom once and for all. 3. Philip of Macedon-by his death he had installed his despotic rule throughout Greece 4. Alexander-was motivated by the desire for personal power and glory 5. Despotism-absolute power- of authority of rulers who represented themselves as at least semi-divine
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Chapter 7 Define: * Plateau: a relatively high‚ flat land areas * Desert * Savanna: broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs Define: * Animism: * Griot: a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history * Subsistence Farming: the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use‚ not for sale * Matrilineal: tracing lineage through the mother rather than the father * Patrilineal: tracing lineage through the father Know
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CH 8: Networks of Communication and Exchange‚ 300 B.C.E.—1100C.E. I. The Silk Road * Silk Road—the trade route linking the lands of the Mediterranean with China by way of Mesopotamia‚ Iran‚ and C. Asia. A. Origins of Operations * Parthians—named after homeland east of caspian sea—took over Iran and then Mesopotamia. They were a major force by 247 B.C.E. And had few written resources. There were several wars between the Parthians and the Seleucids‚ and later the Parthians and
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James Jones September 17‚ 2011 Block 3 Networks of Communication and Exchange (Chapter 7) 300 BCE-600 BCE I. The Silk Road A. Origins and Operations -The Chinese General Zhang Jian is credited as “originator of overland trade with the western lands.” He made 18 expeditions across deserts to west; he first went to Fergana river-valley. Helped to introduce new plants trees to China through the trade. - Long-distance trade was made important by China’s demand for western products. Nomadic
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another. Both civilizations were surrounded by natural land barriers restricting them both to an isolated form of growth; Ancient Egypt had the Sahara Desert to the west and the Arabian Desert to the east; the only form of contact that they had was from Nubia. Just as the Egyptians had their boundaries‚ the Chinese had their contacts limited by the Himalayas‚ many different deserts‚ and the Pacific Ocean leaving only a small area from which the Chinese could trade from. This explains why the Chinese artifacts
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With few precedents to guide them‚ the population of Mesopotamia adapted and created Answer | | Social organization | | | Writing | | | Agricultural cultivation | | | Development of religion | | | Competition amongst different groups | 1 points Question 2 The earliest urban societies so far known emerged in the Answer | | First millennium B.C.E | | | Third millennium B.C.E | | | Sixth millennium B.C.E | | | Second millennium B.C.E | | | Fourth millennium
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Chapter One Notes Before Civilization (Circa Lorraine) Culture: constituted by learned patterns of action and expression FOOD GATHERING AND STONE TECHNOLOGY Stone tool-making first appeared around 2 million years ago Stone Age Lasted from 2 million to about 4‚000 years ago Misleading label: bone‚ skin and wood just survive poorly Paleolithic = Old Stone Age Neolithic = New Stone Age Foundations of science‚ art‚ and religion begin here May have believed in afterlife In game-rich areas
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Chapter Review Human migration began in eastern Africa‚ where remains of the earliest types of human remains were found to originate. Gradual migration was caused by the need to find scarce food and slowly caused the spread of the human population across to the Americas and Australia. Agricultural societies first emerged in the middle east. Since population was increasing‚ it encouraged people to find a more reliable food source and since the ice age had come to an end‚ it brought the retreat
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