world cultures midterm review Tools A B bernares holy city on the ganges pakistan home of the muslims bangladesh fought a civil war to separate from her western half khyber pass the british, russians and us have all invaded this place deccan place where cotton and millet are grown western ghats kept the europeans out for a while tf india has 1000000000 people t tf ghee comes from kashmir goats t # of degrees on a compass 360 the town 0 degrees longitude goes through greenwich england the # of degrees of longitude 180 a climate thats cold all year round polar the meridian of longitude that is used to determine location prime meridian the meridian of longitude on which the day changes international date line the # of degrees of latitude 360 hominid "humanlike" found in ethipoia which map is distored in the poles mercator which gives you the shortest route globe hammurabi developed a famous law code nebuchadnezzar made hanging gardens of babylon persia built roads and unified coinage phonicia carriers of civilization, developed alphabet sumeria developed the city-state in mesopotamia alex the great brought greek civilization in the middle east hitties first to use iron in mesopotamia menes unified upper and lower egypt akkad unified mesopotamia city states into an empire ikhnaton egyptian king who believed in one god what feature did most egyptian kings relate to nature what # was the base of the math system in mesopo. 60 which civilization used the rising if sirus as the start of the new year egypt how does the pyramid show egyptian society most power at to, most pple at the bottom which nation has the most oil saudi arabia value a belief that is important to a culture norm actions that reflect values politics gov't economics the distribution of services and goods in a culture archaeology the study of man made remains history the past recorded events anthropology the study of man nomadic society wanderers in search of food industrial society machines and steam power takes place of human power information float how fast info gets around homo habilis called zinjanthropus, found by louis leaky homo erectus made fire, some kind of oral communication homo sapiens means "thinking man" neanderthal animal skins for clothing, better axes and tools cro-magnon cooperated in hunting, bone needles to make clothes new stone age beginning of civilization and agricultural society copper age 5000 bc bronze age refers to metal made of copper and tin iron age 1000 bc would an arab support the macmohan correspondence yes what would a jew support balfour declaration who did not recieve independence in the 1930s palestineq where is the dome of the rock jerusalem which war is known as the 6 day war 1967 what is the holiest city of islam mecca what does ramadan celebrate hejira, gabriels appearance to muhammad what is the day of worship for jews saturday what is the holiest city of judaism jerusalem yahweh god of judaism hejira muhammad runs for his life moses recieved the law on mt. sinai god of islam allah contains the laws of moses torah left mesopotamia for canaan abraham koran contains gods words to muhammad gabriel the angel who spoke to muhammad ramadan a muslim fast yom kippur da of atonement sold as a slave; ended up in egypt joseph solomon built the first temple abraham left mesopotamia to go to egypt moses led the hebrews to egypt david estblished jerusalem as the capital of israel capitalism economy is private standard of living the average amount of stuff a person or society has social mobility the ability to move from one social class to another terracing building steps into the side of a mountain to make more farmable land ghee oil made from cows milk used in foods. it has no fat green revolution miracle technology helped make new strains of wheat and rice traditional economy an economy that is self- sufficient cash economy goods and services are sold to make a profit artisan skilled craftsman