Vocab 1
A set of beliefs about how to live and how the world works.
What is philosophy?
This is known as the highest power given through natural forces.
What is the mandate of heaven?
What is Athens and Sparta?
This is the main mountain range of Italy.
What is the Alps?
The main battle formation of the Greeks.
What is a phalanx?
a protective coating made from sap. Used to shield wood and metal crafts.
What is laquer?
What did the first emperor of China call himself.
What is Shi Huangdi?
What peninsula was Sparta located on.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
He became the sole dictator of Rome.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Means "High city"
What is an acropolis?
What is chaos?
These are known as the main two rivers for the Ancient Chinese civilizations.
What are the Huang and Chang Rivers?
This is the family line that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt descended from.
What is the Ptolemies?
He became the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus/Octavian?
The Roman army was broken into many sections called.
What is a legion?
Another term for god or goddess.
This was known as a passage/route taken by land or sea that helped the Han expand its empire through trade out west.
What is the Silk Road?
This Greek city state was able to conqueror all of Greece and start moving the empire to the west.
What is Macedonia?
What are the patricians and the plebeians.
An open area in a city filled with public buildings, temples, and markets.
An instrument used in ancient Greece, similar to a harp.
What is a lyre?
List the four Ancient Chinese empires in order from when they first took over.
What is Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han
This city was named after the rider of the horse Bucephalus.
What is Alexandria?
These are the three branches of the Roman Republic.
Means "honored one".
What is Augustus?