GLOBAL STUDIES RCT REVIEW

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GLOBAL STUDIES RCT REVIEW
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CIVILIZATION

• What Makes a Civilization?
• Development of agriculture
• The development of cities
• Some form of government
• The establishment of organized
• religion and education
• Trade and the use of money. 
• Development of a system of
• writing and record keeping.

CODE OF HAMMURABI
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NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Agricultural skills allow man to abandon a
nomadic lifestyle and begin to establish early
villages.
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BUDDHISM

• FOUNDED BY SIDDARTHA GUATAMA
• THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS AND THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
  ARE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF BUDDHISM

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RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
Early civilizations in the Fertile Crescent
depended upon fertile land and a steady supply of
water for their success. (Egypt,
Mesopotamia,India, China)
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GREECE

• DIVIDED INTO CITY STATES AS A RESULT OF THE
  IMPACT OF GEOGRAPHY
• BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY
• HOME TO GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
• ARCHITECTUAL AND LEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN
  CIVILIZATION

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ROME

• ARCHITECTUAL AND LEGAL INFLUENCES ON WESTERN
  CIVILIZATION
• BUILT EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF ROADS
• THE COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE LED TO THE
  DEVELOPMENT OF
• FEUDALISM

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MIDDLE AGES

• DURING THE MIDDLE AGES THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY
  ABOVE EXISTED
• FEUDALISM CALLED FOR PEASANTS (SERFS) TO WORK
  ON LAND (MANOR) IN EXCHANGE FOR PROTECTION FROM
  NOBLES WHO RECEIVED THEIR AUTHORITY FROM THE KING
• THE CHURCH WAS THE MOST POWERFUL INSTITUTION
  DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

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CRUSADES

• ATTEMPTS TO SPREAD CHRISTIANITY AND RECAPTURE
  THE HOLY LAND
• LONG-TERM RESULT CULTURAL DIFFUSION BETWEEN
  EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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PROTESTANT REFORMATION

• 95 THESES IDENTIFIES ARGUMENTS AGAINST CATHOLIC
  CORRUPTION
• SPARKS THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
• LEADS TO THE CREATION OF THER DENOMINATION OF
  CHRISTIANITY

MARTIN LUTHER
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RENAISSANCE

• THE WORD MEANS REBIRTH
• PERIOD OF GREAT CREATIVITY
• BEGAN IN ITALY BECAUSE OF
• TRADE AND WEALTH

THE MONA LISA
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ABSOLUTISM

• ABSOLUTE RULERS RULED ABSOLUTELY
• THE MAGNA CARTA AND THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS
  LIMITED THE POWER OF MONARCHS
• THE TYRANNY OF ABSOLUTE RULERS LEADS TO
  REVOLUTION ACROSS EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

KING LOUIS XIV
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SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• DEVELOPMENT OF THE
• SCIENTIFIC METHOD
• IDENTIFY NATURAL TRUTHS
• THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION
• AND THE USE OF HUMAN
• REASON
• CHALLENGES THE STATUS
• QUO

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ENLIGHTENMENT
1600s-1700s

• rejection of traditional ideas
• government/societal reforms
• equality in society
• consent of the governed

JOHN LOCKE
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FRENCH REVOLUTION

• popular military general
• directed a coup d etat to overthrow the govt
• named himself emperor
• established Napoleonic Code

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
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LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

• INSPIRED BY THE ENLIGHTENMENT, FRENCH/AMERICAN
  REVOLUTION
• SOCIAL/POLITICAL LIFE DOMINATED BY THE
  PENISULARES
• SIMON BOLIVAR LED INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS ACROSS
  LATIN AMERICA

SIMON BOLIVAR
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NATIONALISM TRIUMPHS IN EUROPE
GARIBALDI
VON BISMARCK
BOTH OF THE MEN ABOVE USED MILITARY FORCE AND
NATIONALISM TO UNIFY THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES.
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• BEGAN IN GREAT BRITAIN- RESOURCES/WEALTH
• GROWTH OF FACTORIES LED TO URBANIZATION
• FACTORY WORKERS/CHILDREN NOT PROTECTED
• ABUSES LEAD TO LABOR REFORM

CHILD LABOR
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IMPERIALISM
During the 1900s European countries adopted
imperialistic foreign policies to gain access to
natural resources, strengthen their country, and
spread their culture.
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THEMATIC ESSAYS
Theme Revolution Theme Political
Systems Theme Major Turning Point in
History Theme Impact of Geography