Who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey?
Who fought in the Punic Wars? Why?
Homer
Rome and Carthage
Control of Mediterranean Sea Trade
Who fought in the Peloponnesian War? Who won?
Where was the birthplace of Ancient India located?
Athens and Sparta
Sparta
Indus River Valley (Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro)
Writing of Mesopotamia
What did they write on?
Map Locations #21-30
Cuneiform
Clay Tablets
21 Adriatic Sea 22 Greece
23 Mediterranean Sea 24 Nile River
25 Sinai 26 Germany
27 Tiber River 28 Asia Minor
29 Apennines Mountains 30 Italian Peninsula
What Roman idea ensured that no one branch of government had more power than any other?
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
He created the world's first Empire
He was the first to unite all of Ancient Egypt
He simplified Roman Legal Code and his wife advocated for equality for women in the Roman Empire
Sargon
Menes (Narmer)
Justinian and Theodora
Who was the Buddha?
Which date came before 25 BCE?
A. 50 BCE/BC C. 10 CE/AD
B. 10 BCE/BC D. 15 CE/AD
Siddhartha
A. 50 BCE/BC
Scattering of the Jewish People
Who allowed the Jews to return to their Homelands?
Diaspora
Cyrus of Persia
He led the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus)
Moses
The ______________formed the basis for Judaism
What was the Pantheon? What architectural detail was significant about it?
What was the Parthenon?
Hebrew Bible
Roman Temple built to honor all Roman gods-coffered ceiling and the dome
Athenian Temple built to honor goddess Athena
How did the Greeks honor their gods?
Greek Father of Medicine
Greek Father of Geometry
Building large temples or monuments
Hippocrates
Euclid
Who wrote the Analects? What was its focus?
Confucius
Trust and Obedience
Who became Roman Emperor after the death of Julius Caesar?
Octavian Caesar Augustus
Where was the Fertile Crescent?
Map Locations #11-20
Extended from Mediterranean Sea to Persian Gulf
11 Mesopotamia 12 Tigris River
13 Euphrates River 14 Persian Gulf
15 Red Sea 16 Spain
17 Gaul 18 Britain 19 Hadrian's Wall
20 Italian Alps
What religion that started in India was expanded along the Silk Road through cultural diffusion?
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
Buddhism
The Buddha
____________ Mountains run the length of the Italian Boot
_____________Mountains are located at the top of the Italian Peninsula
_____________Mountains are located between the Black and Caspian Sea
_____________Mountains are located to the East of Mesopotamia
Apennines
Italian Alps
Caucasus Mountains
Zagros Mountains
Who was the first to unify China? How did they do it?
Qin Dynasty
Standardized Weights and Measures
Great Wall of China/Protection
The Han Dynasty created what navigational device?
What was China's longest dynasty?
Magnetic Compass
Zhou
Who reigned in Egypt for 67 years and signed the world's first peace treaty?
Ramses
Map Locations #1-10
1 Rome 2 Mount Vesuvius
3 Syracuse 4 Sicily
5 Carthage 6 Alexandria
7 Jerusalem 8 Constantinople
9 Black Sea 10 Caspian Sea
What was the Caesar saying that meant no turning back?
Who plotted the assassination of Caesar? Why?
Crossing the Rubicon
Cassius and Brutus/fear Caesar was becoming too powerful
What was the Roman Road system called?
What was the Parthenon?
What was the Pantheon? What architectural element was significant to this structure?
Appian Way
Athens temple built to honor goddess Athena
Roman temple built to honor all Roman gods/Dome and Coffered Ceiling
He made Christianity the official religion of Rome.
He led Rome during the Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
He divided the Roman Empire into halves East and West
Constantine
Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
Diocletian
Where did the Roman Gladiators fight?
Chariot Racers?
Colosseum
Circus Maximus
____________________-all citizens participate in Government (Athens)
________________-government ruled by a few rich nobles (Sparta)
What was the Northern River of China called?
Direct Democracy
Oligarchy
Huang He River (Yellow River)
What factors led to the Fall of the Roman Empire?
Father of Science
He created a theorem to determine the length of the sides of a triangle
He created idea of (3.14), catapult
Corruption, Could not defend its Borders, economic instability, invasions by Germanic Tribes
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes