Ap Notes pg 51-67

good trading contacts=India
Persian empires brought artistic styles
not much isolation
monsoons could help them or not
semi tropical
Sanskrit=sacred book
Village chiefs
gave sacrifice to gods
Buddha built on their religion
Indian plains divided into states
Magadha state took over over much of India
Ashoka the killer converted to Buddhism
Gupta took over soon after and inter married
So as to keep the line pure
they did not have political traditions like the Chinese
They encouraged imagination
Hinduism was the countries religion
No founder of Hinduism
There was good things and bad things
It was taught by monks
The Indians made great strides in medicine
Children were very sacred in India
A man is not allowed to beat his wife becuase they are also sacred
Agriculture was India's base for their culture
The upper class was small nut powerful
They had influence on the rest of the world
India affected China
India had a primary religion
India was more open to other influences than any other country
India produced goods like textile mills and bronze

History Notes pgs 35-43

China dao @ yin, yang
China, until early 20th had dynasties
Chinese history is in cycles
Zhou dynasty lasted 800 years
Zhou had many regional supporters
It lead to Mandarin Chinese being invented
Qin took over as Zhou fell
Shi Hunagdi made the Great wall of China
The Quins were not liked
Han took over soon after for 400 years
Agriculture societies in China did not disappear
Made uniform tax system
Many strong Bureaucrats
Criminals regularly disrupt Government
China did not direct their subjects
Confucius made Confusism
Legalism sprung up in China
China had a religious philosophy-Daosism
Daoismcans-way of nature
Both of these were the most important
Practical work was better than imagining
Medical research was big
How things work
People without skills=lower class
trade not big
tight family organizations
oldest male child got property and inheritance
harmony among major features
thought of society as whok
Chinese used torture and benevolence
Chinese had direct links to world trade
Silk road-encouraged people to travel to West

National Geographic

I believe that Jared Diamond is right in saying that it is the geographical spot and the plants that are grown there that hinders the New Guineans. The plants that New Guineans have do not last very long and rot more quickly than other foods so they can not store it for a long period of time. The plants that they grow need to be done with one separate seed and need to be grown individually instead of like wheat and barley when you can just throw the seeds over the ground and they rise out of the ground in a couple of weeks fully grown. The New Guineans could not mass produce their food which if they could they would have to make machines to make the food, but they could not since they were not that far up the industrial ladder. They were also not on any major trade routes with the rest of the world so they could not trade food or technology with countries like China or Japan who were very far up the industry ladder compared to New Guinea. That is why i believe Jared Diamond is right.

Ap history notes pgs 16-29

Ap notes pgs 16-29
Sumerians=cuneiform alphabet
Sumerian art; statues painted frescoes
Sumerians created # units 10, 60, 360=time
Different symbols in religion
Sumerian city states
Sumerians taken over twice by conquers
Hunting herding groups create unrest
Pharaoh was all powerful
Egyptian science not as elaborate as Sumerians
China developed in isolation
China; high intellectual life:2000 B.C.E
Chinese loved music in New Stone age
Alphabets are derived form river valleys
Chinese thought of perfect harmony
Mesopotamia had a gap between nature and humans
Phoenicians had 22 letter alphabet
River Valleys created basic math and science
Four civilizations centers in world
Small culture had minority values, it made the middle East complex

Ap history notes pgs 7-16

Ap History pgs 7-16
Humans have existed for less than 5 percent of the time other mammals have lived.
Humans have many drawbacks; we are aggressive against our own kind.
We can grip objects unlike other mammals because of opposable thumbs.
Human’s history starts in the Stone Age that lasted 2 million years.
100,000 years ago there were 1.5 million people called Homo erectus in the world
We are all descendents of Homo sapiens sapiens, who were in Africa.
People slowly began to settle down instead of following the food.
People began to develop cultures and different languages for themselves.
Around 750,000 people from Africa started moving north and got to the America’s by 8000 B.C.E.
Neolithic people marked the end of the Stone Age throughout much of the world.
With agriculture, people settled down and there millions that did that.
People had to think of new ways to get their food because animals were leaving where they lived
In the East agriculture boomed since there were not many animals in the desert that was almost their almost only food supply.
Agriculture could make it so more people could be feed.
Asia was cold so they had animals instead of having agriculture as there main food supply.
Japan did not know of this so they were isolated for a long time from the rest of the world
Agriculture encouraged different types of science and the potter’s wheel.
By 3000 B.C.E metal was used in most everything from a hoe to metal working in general.
Neolithic settlements spread from Africa to Europe.
Some of the cities that grew began to have Kings that ruled them.
The three great civilizations had been created by 2500 B.C.E.
Writing was invented by 3500 B.C.E, in the Middle East.
Nomadic people could not make civilizations because they did not have the supplies for it.
In Nomadic societies there was much inequality between men and women.
The first real human civilization happened to be created in the Middle Eastern country of the world