GLOBAL STUDIES DOWLING First Semester Exam Study Guide The exam will include: • Map (20 points): Identify 10 Middle Eastern countries • Matching (30): you must do 15 out of 20 • ID (15): You will choose 3 out of 6 to identify what it is and why it is historically significant‚ as well as placing it in historical context. • Short Answer (15) choose 3 out of 6 (1-2 paragraphs) • Essay (20) (3-4 paragraphs) Major Themes • Know geography of Middle East
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Turkish oil wrestling is more complicated than it sounds and every year 1‚000 of the top competitors gather to determine the “baspehlivan” or chief wrestler of Turkey. History (-- removed HTML --) Oil wrestling has its roots as far back as ancient Sumer and Babylon. After the 10th century‚ Turkish wrestlers began covering themselves from navel to knees in accordance with Islamic law. After the conquest by the Turks‚ a more traditional freestyle wrestling evolved. Special leather pants were designed
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Mesopotamia‚ a place that will be your (PERFECT) vacation in Reality! Mesopotamia is in the Fertile Crescent‚ which means that it has rich soil and the land is shaped as a crescent moon. If you have a home you don’t need to worry about walking far distances to get water. Why? You have two free and available rivers named the Tigris and Euphrates.You have free land where you can grow your crops‚ additionally‚ you won’t struggle like they did in Paleolithic Era. People in that time era had to hunt everywhere
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From Ancient civilizations to the reformation there has been a lot of significant changes and ideas. The most significant people‚ events‚ human achievements‚ and time periods are Augustus‚ The plague‚ Religion and the Golden Ages‚ Augustus was the most strong and prominent ruler of the Roman empire. The Bubonic plague killed millions of people during the middle ages. Religion has been apart of the world since the beginning with polytheism and later monotheism. The Golden ages has had a huge impact
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Alexander III of Macedon‚ also known as Alexander the Great‚ was born on July 20‚ 356 BC in Pella. He was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympia. At the age of 14‚ King Philip hired the Greek Philosopher Aristotle to tutor Alexander. For 3 years‚ Aristotle taught him eloquence and literature. Aristotle also sparked his interest in medicine‚ science and philosophy. At the age of 18‚ Alexander was in charge of the Companion Cavalry. Alexander’s father was assassinated in 336 BC. At
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Based off of this week’s reading assignment you can see that an interesting story is told of Sargon’s life and how we came to become a ruler. Sargon did not seem to know his father‚ only his mother. Just from reading the text‚ we cannot tell exactly why his mother had to stay low key about her pregnancy and pass him along the river. His mother made sure he was safe‚ “She placed me in a basket of reeds‚ she cast me upon the rivers which did not overflow me”‚ he travels through safely where we is found
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Women (Rome VS China) In the past‚ women have been generally regarded as inferior to men. This can been seen through the way women were treated in society‚ having little rights and freedom‚ and subjected to the whims and fancy of their husbands. They were regarded as not only mentally inferior to men but also physically inferior. In addition‚ they were seen as evil and a master of seduction. In Greek mythology‚ for instance‚ it was said that a woman named Pandora‚ brought disaster and suffering
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both hunting societies and more recent cultures where birds were domesticated. The chicken was probably domesticated for its eggs from jungle fowl native to tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia and India before 7500 BCE. Chickens were brought to Sumer and Egypt by 1500 BCE‚ and arrived in Greece around 800 BCE‚ where the quail had been the primary source of eggs.[5] In Thebes‚ Egypt‚ the tomb of Haremhab‚ built about 1420 BCE‚ shows a depiction of a man carrying bowls of ostrich eggs and other large
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its ornaments‚ and potteries around it which depicted the burial custom of Harappans. The culture of the Indus Valley Civilization was mainly a urban culture with increased surplus of agricultural production and commerce‚which included trade with Sumer which in southern Mesopotamia. Both Mohenjo-daro and Harappa are generally characterized as having "differentiated living quarters‚ flat-roofed brick houses‚ and fortified administrative or religious
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allowed it to enjoy a high decree of unity‚ stability‚ and cultural continuity over a period of over 3‚000 years." The harsh climate protected the Egyptians like a natural barrier‚ which is good because the were spared the harch attacks the people of Sumer endured. The negative aspect of this would be that this limited their contact with other people. Egypt was a united kingdom ruled by pharoahs. Another place affectected by agriculture was the cities along the Indus. This was around 2500 B.C.
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