islam god is allah prophet is mohamad qur’an is their holy book

Islam

God is ALLAHProphet is Mohamad

Qur’an is their holy book

Crusades

• Military campaigns launched by Christian Leaders in Europe. Goal was to recapture the holy land. (Jerusalem)

Migration

• Moving from one area to another.

• Drought: long period without rain.

• Push factors: things that would cause people to leave a place.

• Pull Factors: things that would cause people to come to a place.

Cultural Diffusion

• The spreading of ideas and culture.

Constantinople

• Became the major center of trade and interaction in the Roman Empire. Constantine moved the Capital from ROME to CONSTANTINEOPLE.

The Crusades

• A violent religious conflict. Christians wanted back Jerusalem their holy land.

The Great wall of China

• Keep of foreign invaders. Stretches 40000 miles across northern china.

The Silk Road

• Trading route that stretched from eastern asia to the Mediterranean6 sea.

Agriculture

Farming.Domesticated Animals: animals raised in

captivity to use for food and labor. CATTLE HORSES DOGS

Specialization

• People focus on a specific thing. • I specialize in social studies• Mrs. Hale specialized in English and Reading.

Sumerians

• First Mesopotamian civilization .

• Ziggurat: sun-baked brick shrines for the gods. I was built on top of a large tower.

Code Of Hammurabi

• 1st written set of laws. BABYLON leader Hammurabi

• An EYE for an EYE

Cuneiform

• Earliest known form of writing.

Sinai peninsula

• Sits between Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia.

• Armies fought over this territory for its trade route.

Bering land Bridge

• Allowed early humans who lived in Asia to migrate to north America.

Phoenicians

• Created the first written symbols to represent sounds.

• They also were great ship builders and explorers.

Indus River Valley

• Harappa and Mohenjo- Daro

Mycenae

• The 1st Greek city-state

Pharaohs

• King or queens of Egypt. • Looked at as Gods

Hieroglyphics

• Egyptians writing. Written on Papyrus.

China

• Huang He River or YELLOW RIVER: china’s second longest river.

• It is considered the Cradle of Chinese civilization.

• YANGTZE RIVER” China’s longest River.

Ideographs

• Ancient Chinese Writing. • These are characters that combine 2 or more

pictographs to represent an Idea.

China’s Dynasties

• Sui, • Tang,• Song

• They invented steel and GUNPOWDER…

Roman Government

• We get our government like our SENATE from the Romans.

• Also our alphabet from the early romans.

• They were a democracy.

Mandate of Heaven

• God raised them up to Rule.

The River of Sorrow

• The Haung He river or YELLOW river is called this because it can flood and kill thousands.

China and Silk

• Silk became one of its most important exports.

Spartans

• Centered their life as warriors.• They fought Athens in the Peloponnesian

wars.