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By taking these quizzes over-and-over, you will be able to commit these historic events to memory for recall on your exam. You should print out a copy, and use a piece of lined paper to record your answers. Then, check them verses the correct answers listed online.

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Global History and Geography Regents Review 2016

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Global History and Geography Regents Review 2016

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Free World History Flashcards about Global Regents NY

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Free flashcards to help memorize facts about Complete Global Regents Review (full year). Other activities to help include hangman, crossword, word scramble, games, matching, quizes, and tests.

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** Marks information that comes up in the Regents almost every test.

There are several major social sciences. History is just one, though it incorporates elements of the others. In fact, all the social sciences overlap to some degree

Suez/Panama Canals - Carved through the earth by imperialist nations (US, Britain) to allow faster global shipping

Peninsulas (Korea, Yucatan)

Christianity split again in the early 1500's during The Reformation, which was started by a German monk named Martin Luther. Before the Reformation, all Christians were Catholic. After the Reformation, Protestants (Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists, Episcopalians, etc.) split off from the Catholics.
Neolithic Revolution and Early River Valley Civilizations
Athens experienced a "golden age" of culture because they excelled in government (the first democracy), sports (the first Olympics), architecture (buildings with pillars), and the arts (sculpture, theater, literature, philosophy).

The Greeks are famed for philosophy (Socrates & Plato), epics (Homer), architecture (the Parthenon) and math (Pythagorean theorum, etc.)

China was first unified under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE. Unification came through war under the emperor Shi Huangdi, who believed in legalism (harsh law code of total control).

The Chinese were the only people in the world who knew how to make silk. Silk was traded on the Silk Road but it also spread ideas and culture between China and the Middle East.

The Tang Dynasty of China claimed the The T'ang & Song Dynasties (618 - 902 CE). "Mandate of Heaven" (divine right) from the Han after it collapsed after 220 CE. The Tang & Song expanded China's territory, constructed canals and roads for international trade, expanded trade throughout Asia, redistributed land to peasants, and made advances in printing, porcelain making, medicine, time keeping and gunpowder.

rose in Eastern Europe & Turkey after the fall of Rome. It preserved Roman laws, in what was called The Byzantine Empire (330 - 1453 CE) Justinian's Code and which became the model for late European legal systems. The Byzantine Empire also expanded trade in silk, spices and luxury goods to Chinese, Persians and Western Europe, and was the center of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, which it passed to Eastern Europe and Russia.

Islam split into two groups, Sunnis and Shiites, and is still divided today.

The Golden Age of Islam came under the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties. Both expanded Islam's area and power. They were very tolerant of people of other cultures and religions in their empires.

During Islam's Golden Age, great advances were made in science (astronomy & engineering), medicine (hospitals & vaccines) and math. These advances were built on ancient Greek learning and were eventually passed back to Europe.

ofEurope (The Middle Ages (500-1500 CE) Medieval period) was dominated by Feudalism the Catholic Church.

**Feudalism is the idea that the King grants land to the Nobles. The Nobles had serfs (peasants) work the land and pay the king with what was produced on the land. Knights worked for the Nobles as a source of protection, kind of like a neighborhood army to protect the manor. When the King went to war with another king, he got all the knights from his Nobles to help him in battle. There was a strict social order, with the poor serfs on the bottom.

started whenMuslims defeated the weakening Byzantine Empire to take control of Jerusalem, the holiest site for Christians, Jews and a very holy site for Muslims.Inspired by Pope Urban II, the Christian Europeans decided to go on various "Crusades" - to free these holy sites from Muslim control.

**But Europeans and Muslims gained new ideas and products as they traded with each other and were exposed to each others culture.

On the bad side, the Crusades led to lasting hatred between Christians and Muslims and the permanent split of the Catholic & Eastern Orthodox churches.

They were similar systems, offering little social mobility. If you were born a peasant,you remained a peasant.

were the lords of Japanese feudalism and Samurai the warriors.

Japan was a very isolated country: they kept to themselves and tried to minimize contact with others (pretty easy to do since it is a group of islands). But, Japan was still heavily influenced by China through the peninsula of Korea, which lies between China and Japan and through which Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese writing reached Japan.

Through trade, Islam was introduced to the area. Mali King Mansa Musa made the pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1300s.

The Mongols were famous for killing millions, but also for allowing the people they conquered to maintain their culture and identity.

The disease was spread by flea-bearing rats and came from China along trade routes.

was a period of great change in the Catholic Church. It was started by the monk Martin Luther, who was upset over corruption within the Catholic Church, and the Church's sale of indulgences, which were kind of like 'get into heaven free cards'.

Now Christians are split between Catholics and Protestants. There are many schools of Protestants, including Calvinists, Presbyterians, Baptists, etc.

is the term for American civilizations before the arrival of Europeans. The main civilizations were the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Mayans. They had advanced math and calendars.

But once the Europeans came with their guns, cannon, metal weapons and diseases, they quickly overran these civilizations.

With the invention of the European Exploration and Cortez (1400-1500s). compass and the astrolabe, (navigation tools) Europeans began sailing and exploring all over the world. And when they got to these far away places they realized they had better weapons than the local people, so they killed and enslaved them.

Many think of African slavery as an American (US) event - but the vast majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean and South America.

Mercantilism is the idea that a nation is more powerful and wealthy if it has overseas colonies. Overseas colonies provide gold and silver for the home country. The colonies also provide raw materials and will also buy manufactured goods from the home country.

is the concept that a ruler has absolute rule over his nation. Absolute rulers are usually kings such as Louis XIV of France,Henry VIII of England, or Peter the Great of Russia.

is the classic absolute ruler with his giant palace at Versailles and his famous quote, "I am the State".

Absolute rulers dominated Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.

In England they even went so far as to execute (cut off his head) King Charles I - in public!

Before the Scientific Revolution people got their ideas about science from the ancient Greeks (Aristotle), or the Catholic Church. **But then scientists such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Isaac Newton began using the Scientific Method in search of the real scientific truth. The Scientific Method is the use of experimentation and observation (over and over again) to come up with an accurate conclusion.

Galileo and Copernicus proved that the sun was the center of the universe, while the Catholic Church still believed that the earth was the center of the universe. The Church put Galileo on trial and made him say that he was wrong or they would kill him. He admitted he was wrong even though he knew he was right.

The Enlightenment (1600-1700s) was a movement of political ideas inspired by thescientists of the Scientific Revolution. Enlightenment Thinkers came up with new ideas about government by applying scientific theories to government. They were tired of kings ruling - they wanted to give political power to the people. They thought that people had the ability to govern themselves.

**The Enlightenment thinkers greatly influenced the American and French Revolutions and laid the groundwork for the modern democracies of today.

The French Revolution of 1789 happened when the lower and middle classes (the French Revolution & Napoleon (1789-1814) Third Estate), revolted and took power from the upper classes ( First & Second Estates) who had ruled France for centuries. They eventually captured the king and queen and cut off their heads.

**The third estate (98% of the population) were inspired by the democratic ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers and by the American Revolution. They set up a government that focused on the rights of the people rather than the power of the king. The middle class gained a lot of power thanks to the revolution.

For a while, the revolution went bad, as the revolutionary leaders chopped off the heads of all their enemies ( The Reign of Terror, led by a radical named Robespierre).

were inspired by the American & French Revolutions and Enlightenment ideals. Haiti's revolution, led by Haitian & Latin American Revolutions (1790s-1830) Toussaint L'Overture, gave it independence from France.

rose in the 1800s. Nationalism is the desire among a people to have their own independent country and then the feeling of devotion to one's country. The rise of nationalism in Europe, an impact of Napoleon's conquests, led Italy to unify for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire, in the mid-1800s. The nationalist movement in Italy was led by Cavour and Garibaldi.
The Industrial Revolution (1750-1850+)
But the Industrial Revolution also allowed people to acquire more products as goods became cheaper and more plentiful.

Karl Marx lived during the early days of the Industrial Revolution and did not like what he saw. Marx believed that these two classes; the working class (the Karl Marx and Communism. Proletariat) and the owning class (the Bourgeoisie) would be constantly in conflict with each other. He felt that the rich would get richer and the poor poorer, and the common worker would be forever enslaved by industry and those who owned the industry.

Japanese domination in the electronics industry is a product of the Meiji Restoration.
European Imperialism (1800s-mid-1900s)
**There was a racist component to Imperialism also as Europeans often felt it was there duty to civilize and Christianize the "savage" people they encountered in these lands. (The "civilizing mission" or "White Man's Burden")

began with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand - the Archduke of Austria. At the time Europe was a tense mix of nationalistic powers, tied up in alliances, so it only took a little incentive to set them off toward war. Europe was divided up between the triple alliance of Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary - and the triple entente of France, Britain and Russia.

These countries were building up their militaries in anticipation of war.

When war came it was devastating. Trench warfare and modern weapons (machine guns, tanks, planes, cannon, etc.) made causalities high.

of 1917 - also called the The Russian Revolution Bolshevik Revolution - was the first time a nation adopted communism as its political and economic system.

was the leader of the Communists ( Vladimir Lenin Bolsheviks) during the revolution.

Communism lasted in Russia from 1917 - 1989.

Japan's expansion plans led it to attack the US at Pearl Harbor during WW II to control the Pacific Ocean.

was a huge invasion when American & British troops landed in France to take back Europe from the Germans.

WWII finally ended when the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

was Adolph Hitler's attempt to kill off all of the Jews in Europe. Trying to kill an entire group of people is called genocide. Hitler hated Jews, thought they were an inferior race, and blamed them for Germany's problems.

Sympathy for Jews after the Holocaust and WWII helped to create the nation of Israel in 1947.

**Nations that supported the US formed NATO; nations that supported Russia formed the Warsaw Pact. Countries that did not take a clear side were called non-aligned.

Other famous Cold War events & terms include: The Truman Doctrine

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Marks information that comes up in the Regents almost every test. There are several major social sciences. History is just one, though it incorporates elements of the others.

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Global Regents Review Sheet and Flashcards Prep

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21. Questions 1-3 on the Regents tend to have nothing to do with history ... usually it involves a "physical map," or a map that has mountains and rivers jutting out of it. Or, it is a question about economies/resources or what an anthropologist does.

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Global History and Geography Regents Practice Test

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Global History and Geography - New York Regents August 2016 Exam - Multiple choice

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