ESPeN Model Characteristics
This ESPeN Characteristic involves key words such as geography, natural resources, land, and landforms.
Environment
This word can best be defined as "to trade without money".
Barter
This word means the belief in many gods or more than one god.
Polytheism
This Bablyonian King created one of the first system of laws that can best be described as "an eye for an eye".
Hammuarabi
This river is the longest river in the world and was used by the ancient Egyptians.
Nile River
This ESPeN Characteristic involves key words such as trade, money, barter, and wealth.
Economics
This invention made trade a whole lot easier and quicker.
Currency
These were the two most popular religions in China before Buddhism spread from India.
Confucianism and Daoism
This emperor unified China for the first time and built the first version of the Great Wall of China.
Qin Shi Huangdi
These were the two rivers that the Mesopotamians used to farm and settle in between.
Tigris River and Euphrates River
This ESPeN Characteristic involves key words such as religion, culture, social structure, and clothing.
Society
These two industries were monopolized by the Han dynasty because they brought them a lot of wealth.
Iron and Salt Mining
Pharaohs were extremely powerful in ancient Egypt because they were seen as what.
Gods on Earth
This Akkadian king was the first to create an empire in Mesopotamia.
Sargon the Great
Name two natural barriers or landforms that isolated ancient China from other civilizations.
The Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Gobi Desert, Himaylayas, Taklamakan Desert
This ESPeN Characteristic involves key words such as war, leaders, government, and laws.
Politics
The Egyptians engaged in mutually beneficial trade with this civilization that lived south of them.
Nubia
These were the two factors that determined how people are organized in society and made up many ancient social structures.
Status/Wealth and Population
The reason Chinese emperors needed to be kind and just to their people.
The Mandate of Heaven
Other than a fresh water source, all three civilizations we have covered had these two things to farm.
Flat Land and Fertile Soil
This is the word/key term we discussed throughout our unit on Mesopotamia and can be used ANYWHERE in the ESPeN Model.
Technology
Two items or goods that the Phoenicians would trade with other civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea.
Purple Cloth, Silver, Gold, Cedar Wood, Wine, Olive Oil, Copper, Iron
The reason people would pray daily and give offerings to their gods and goddesses.
The belief that their gods and goddesses controlled all aspects of life.
This is a reason why Egypt was often invaded and conquered by other civilizations.
Hint: It is not a political reason.
Geography (lack of physical barriers to protect them)
The name of the three deserts that Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China settled next to.
Syrian Desert, Sahara Desert, and Gobi Desert