Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Details of P.S
Important details about each political structure
| Period One | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tigris_Euphrates River Civilization | City_states, polytheistic, ziggurats, Babylonians |
| Hebrews | First monotheistic religon |
| Pheonician city-states | pheonician alphabet; colonized in Mediterraean |
| Nile River Civilization | king was a god; built pyramid; used papyrus for writing |
| Nubia and Kush | traded and influenced by Egypt |
| Yellow River Civilization(Shang) | ancestor veneratino and oracle bones |
| Zhou | Mandate from heaven |
| Period of Warring States | Daoism, Legalism, Confucianism emerges |
| Indus River Civilization | sophisticated cities with grain storage and water system |
| Vedic Age | Emergence of caste system and foundation of Hinduism; Rig Vedas |
| ustronesian migrations to Indonesia, Pacific Islands, and Madagascar | spread language nd agriculture |
| Bantu migrations | spread language, agriculture, and iron-making |
| Indo-European migrations | spread language |
| Olmec | no wheels, no large animals; polytheistic; built big heads |
| Chavin | benefited from location on trade routes; llamas were only large animals |
| Period Two | |
| Persian Empire | satraps;roads;posts office;tolerant of conquered people; required tribute to be brought to capital;quanats |
| Hellenistic Empire | spread Greek culture |
| Roman Empire | Emergence and spread of christianity |
| Hellenistic Empires | Greek culture; Alexandria was Greek culture center |
| Roman Empire | Great Grain producing area for the Empire |
| Qin | unified China using Legalism |
| Han | promoted silk for export along sil roads; adopted Confucianism as basis for government; began civil service eams; invented paper; expaned empire |
| Nomadic groups | gave help to travelers along silk roads; often adopted Buddhism |
| Mauryan Empire | unified India; promoted spread of Buddhism; built roads |
| Gupta Empie | decentralized empire but required tribute; promoted Hinuism |
| Roman Republic | Republiuc led b aristocratic group of men; epanded in the Mediterranean through military counquest |
| Roman Empire | expanded through military conquest; stability of government encouraged trade |
| Greek city-states | spreadd through colonization, Athens governed by a democracy; greek philosophy emohasized human reason |
| Byzantine Empire | continued Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the west; eperor claimed he was the leader of the church and government |
| Maya | city-states fought each other; religion important; huiman sacrifice; calender |
Created by:
ehaney
Popular World History sets