Notes sheet to accompany Global I & II presentation

1. Global I Review
The social sciences:
Geography:
Geographic impact on societies:
Place:
Adaptation:
History:
Primary vs. secondary sources
Economic$
Capitalism (laissez-faire)
Socialism
Command/Communism
mercantilism
Neolithic Revolution:
Farming (domestication of
plants & animals)
Ancient Mesopotamia:
Fertile Crescent: City-State Cuneiform
ites; advanced The Code of Hammurabi
Ancient Egypt:

2. Pharaoh: Hieroglyphics River delta
Gift of the Nile:
Ancient India:
Ancient China:
Mandate of Heaven: Feudalism: “China’s Sorrow”
What Ancient River Valley Civilizations have in common
Location
Social structure
Government
Record keeping
Belief systems

3. Where When Who? What?
Hinduism
Buddhism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Important Migrations
Indo-European
Phoenician
Bantu
Warring States Period in China:

4. Belief System Founder Beliefs Impact
Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism
The Qin Dynasty
Ancient Greece
Geography:
Athens & Pericles:
Art Literature Medicine Philosophy
Roman Achievements
Republican
Government

5. 12 Tables
Pax Romana
Roman
Architecture
Adoption of
Christianity
Julius Caesar:
Rise Fall
Rise of the Roman Empire, effect:
End of the Roman Empire, Effect:
Social Economic/Political
Feudalism around the World

6. Bushido & Chivalry
The end of Feudalism in Europe:
The Renaissance:
Definition Location Artists Effects
The Reformation:
Definition Location Important People Effects
The Counter-Reformation
Definition Location Important People Effects
Empires around the World
 India:

7. Mauryan Empire
Leader& Dates Importance
Gupta Empire
Leader& Dates Importance
Mughal Empire
Leader& Dates Importance
 China:
Han Dynasty
Leader& Dates Importance
Tang Dynasty
Leader& Dates Importance
Song Dynasty
Leader& Dates Importance
Ming Dynasty
Leader& Dates Importance
 Turkey & the Mediterranean:
Byzantine Empire
Leader & Dates Importance
Ottoman Empire
Leader & Dates Importance
Mongol Empire
Leader & Dates Importance

8.  Africa:
 Central & South America:
Maya
Leader & Dates Importance
Aztec
Leader & Dates Importance
Inca
Leader & Dates Importance
The Age of Exploration
What happened to the Aztec & Inca Empires?
Reasons for New World Exploration:
Technology of exploration:
Columbian exchange:
Encomienda System:
 Atlantic Slave Trade:

9. Middle Passage:
Effects:
Absolute Monarchs in Europe (1500-1800)
 Causes of Absolutism:
Divine Right:
Country Leader(s) Absolute
monarch?
Important Events
Spain
France
Russia
England
The Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment
 Scientific Revolution:
Description Important People Effects
 The Enlightenment
Description Important People Effects
Revolutions around the World
 French Revolution
Causes: Important Events:

10. Effects:
Napoleon Bonaparte:
Congress of Vienna:
 Nationalist Revolutions:
Latin America:
Causes:
Country or Colonizer Causes Leader Description
Region
Haiti
Spanish South
America
Mexico
Europe:
Causes:
Italy
Germany
The Industrial Revolution
 Definition:

11.  Why did it Begin in England:
Important inventions:
Effects:
Urbanization:
New Society:
Longer life-span
Education:
Slums & Poverty:
Need for Natural
Resources:
Pollution:
 Reaction to the Industrial Revolution:
Economic$
Capitalism (Free Market, Laissez-Faire) Communism (Marxism)
Labor Unions:
Increased Democracy & Suffrage:
Imperialism THE MAIN
 Definition: REASON FOR
IMPERIALISM:
 The “White Man’s Burden”:
 Africa; The Berlin Conference:
 India, “The Jewel in the Crown”

12. The Sepoy Mutiny The Amristar Massacre
 China:
Spheres of
Influence
Opium Wars
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
 Japan: From Feudalism to Imperialism
Geography:
Meiji Restoration:
Wars:
Greater East Asia Co prosperity Sphere:
Effects of Imperialism
(+)Positive(+) (-)Negative(-)
What is the main reason for imperialism?
World Wars & Depression
WWI
M

13. A
I
N
Immediate cause of WWI:
Allies Central Powers
New Technologies:
Result:
Effects of WWI; The Treaty of Versailles:
Great Depression
Fascism
League of Nations WWII
W
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
 Russian Revolution:

14. Causes People Description Effects
CZAR
Between the Wars
Great Depression:
Italy Germany Japan
League of Nations  Power
Non-Aggression pact:
Aggression leads to War:
Allies Axis Powers
German invasion of D-Day The Holocaust Nuclear weapons Nuremberg trials
USSR

15. Post WWII
 The United Nations:
Purpose: Security Council Events
The Cold War:
Causes:
NATO Warsaw Pact
 Important Events:
The Iron Curtain:
Ge r ma ny:
Mar$hall Plan:
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Cold War in Latin
America
Détente & SALT
 Communist Revolution in China:
Causes People Events Effects
 Effects:
 End of the Cold War:
USSR
Germany & Eastern Europe
Poland
 Nonalignment:

16. The End of Imperialism
Region: Countries: People: Events:
ASIA
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
 Human Rights Abuses:
Region: Date: People: Events:
Khmer Rouge
(Cambodia)
Genocide in Rwanda
Genocide in Sudan
(Darfur)
Tiananmen Square
Massacre (China)
Serbian War Crimes
(Europe)
The Holocaust (Europe)
The Rape of Nanking
(China)
 Important Conflicts:

17. Region: Dates: People: Events:
Israel/Palestine
India/Pakistan
War on Terror
Democracy movements
in North Africa &
Middle East
Ireland
 Important Events:
Green Revolution:
Population Growth:
Environmental
Concerns:
Nuclear Proliferation:
Developed vs.
Developing Nations:
Economic Problems;
Free Trade & Debt