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Persian asked the Greeks for "Earth and Water", what are they referring to?
Peaceful submissions of land and resources
The other name for the Old Stone Age?
What is the Paleolithic Age?
How did the persian empire grow so big and powerful?
What is through military conquest?
Greek City-State that was focused on Military training?
What is Sparta
How did geography of greece contribute to the rise of independent city- states?
What is the mountains led to isolated groups and from into independent city-states.
The other name for the New Stone Age
What is the Neolithic Age?
a large amphitheater built in Rome as a site of combat between peoples and animals
What is the Colosseum
The two Greek City state that focused more on education, writing and philosophy?
What is Athens?
Religion with gods representing both good and evil in Persia
What is Zoroastrianism
The origins of checks and balances in the U.S. political system can be traced to which ancient civilization?
What is the Roman Republic
The first early civilizations emerged near what major resources?
What is a river valley?
temple in AThens built to honor the goddess Athena
What is the Parthenon
He conquered the Persian Empire, hoping to create a Hellenistic state
What is Alexander the Great
Define cultural diffusion.
The spreading ideas, people, and ideas from place to place.
trained fighters, usually slaves, who fought in arenas as entertainment
What is gladiators
The Neolithic Revolution was characterized by
What is a change from nomadic herding to settled farming?
What was one of the major accomplishments of the classical civilization “Persia”?
What is a uniform system of weights and measures?
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Famous Greek Philosophers
The belief in multiple gods
What is Polytheism?
The city state in Greece that introduced democracy, and was home to great philosophers and writers?
What is Athens?
The first civilization was called what?
What is Mesopotamia?
How did Zorastrianism influence Judaism and Christianity?
What is belief in a final judgment to the afterlife?
Aristotle's pupil
What is Alexander the Great
monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old and New Testaments
What is Christianity