Question | Answer |
What does “c” mean? | |
prehistory | the time before writing |
| “the land between the rivers”
was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Iraq |
| people who regularly move from place to place |
historian | people who study and write about the human past |
cuneiform | Sumerian writing system |
dynasty | a line of rulers that passes power from father to son |
Re | chief god of the Egyptians, son god |
embalming | the Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh’s body from decomposing |
describe the Nile’s flooding | gentle and dependable |
monotheism | the belief in one god
the basis of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity |
the Ten Commandments-what are they responsible for forming today? | the moral laws of many nations |
Israel-what does it mean, who uses the name, where is it? | “one who struggles with god”
a name given to the descendants of Jacob
it’s a modern-day country where Canaan once was |
diaspora | |
| the faith of the Israelites |
rule of law | the idea that the law should apply to everybody equally |
direct democracy | everyone decides government matters |
men in the Spartan army-ages/responsibilities | 7-boys live in barracks, learning to be in the army
20-enter the regular army
30-allowed to return to their homes but remain in the army
60-retire from the army |
| began as an alliance to protect the Greeks from the Persians |
Dark Ages (600 BC) | called the “dark ages” because people forgot how to read and write |
citizens of Greek city-states | free
native-born
land-owning
men |
Alexander the Great and the Iliad | |
Peloponnesian War | Sparta .vs. Athens
left Greeks divided |
Aristotle | taught his student to follow the Golden Mean |
myths (Greece) | religious stories of ancient Greece |
Homer-the Iliad and the Odyssey | two epics written by Homer that are still studied today
Iliad is about the Trojan War |
Alexandria | |
philosophers | |
Plato | |
Buddhism-why did it become so popular? | |
Which two religions can trace their beginning to India? | |
caste system | |
Krishna | |
Asoka | |
Hinduism | |
Buddhism | |
monsoons | |
warlords | |
tenant farmers | |
the Period of the Warring States | |
Marco Polo | |
Mongols | |
When preparing for civil service exams... | |
Forbidden City | |
Confucian officials and Chinese voyages... | |
census-what is it? why did the Ming do it? | |
Italy is... | |
Hannibal | |
Octavian became _______________________ | |
Twelve Tables | |
when was Rome founded? | |
Huang He valley | |
Grand Canal | |