Ancient Greece
This conqueror spread Hellenistic cultural through cultural diffusion.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Rome's central location in this body of water allowed it to expand and trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The impact of ideas and beliefs, the impact of innovation, and the impact of interconnectedness are all examples of these types of issues in history.
What are enduring issues?
This was the shift from hunting-gathering societies to agricultural societies where people used new techniques to grow surpluses of food.
What is the Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution?
The exchange of goods and ideas between different cultures.
What is cultural diffusion?
Modern term for 'polis.'
What is city-state?
This ruler from Mesopotamia is remembered for his law code which included the punishment of being thrown in the Euphrates River.
The study of the physical features of earth.
What is geography?
The 'Old Stone Age.'
What is the Paleolithic era?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are two cities from this early river valley civilization located in modern day Pakistan.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
Greek city-state characterized by their strong military, women playing an important role in society, and oligarchy.
What is Sparta?
The world's first writing system in which scribes pressed a stylus into clay, originally used to keep track of business transactions.
What is cuneiform?
Documents, images, and artifacts that historians study to determine what occurred in the past.
What are sources?
Early River Valley Civilizations used this technique to move water and allow for farming.
What is irrigation?
The course of history is completely changed by these.
What are turning points?
Natural geographic barrier that led to the rise of independent Greek city-states.
What are mountains?
The law code developed by the Roman Republic.
What are the Twelve Tables.
Using multiple of these allow historians to gain different perspectives.
What are points of view?
Semi-permanent settlements due to farming due to this; Paleolithic hunter-gathers were never able to attain it.
What is a food surplus?
This roadside carving in both Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian allowed historians to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Athenian politician who improved life during Athens's Golden Age with three goals: strengthen democracy, strengthen the Athenian empire, and glorify Athens.
Who is Pericles?
This cradle of civilization spans from the Nile River in Egypt to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Checking every source skeptically and critically as well cross-checking and comparing sources helps determine this.
What is reliability?
Much of what we know about the Neolithic era is due to these people who dig in the ground looking for artifacts.
Who are archaeologists?
This famous body of water separates Southern Europe from Northern Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?