Geography Skills
India & China
Persia & Phoenicia
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
100
What is a Physical Map?  What does it show?

Shows the natural features of the landscape, such as rivers, bodies of water, mountains, vegetation.

100

What protected China from the nomadic tribes?

Great Wall of China

100

What were the Phoenicians best known for?

Sea traders along the Mediterranean

100

Greece was not a unified country, instead it was made up of what?

City states.  Small independent countries with their own governments.

100
How did the geography of Rome help its people?

Access to the sea, mountains for protection, hills for defense, rich volcanic soil, freshwater river

200

What is a Political Map?  What does it show?

Shows manmade features, such as cities, borders, roads, colors of countries
200

What blocked India from the rest of Asia?

Himalaya Mountains

200

What did Cyrus change in the Persian Empire for the first time of any civilization?

Made Freedom of Religion (religious tolerance)

200

How did education differ between Athens and Sparta?

Athens - boys only, all subject areas

Sparta - boys and girls, boys had military training and girls learned academics & athletics 

200

What social classes did Rome have?  Describe them.

Plebeians -- common people; shopkeepers, farmers, craftsmen.  Could serve in Assembly

Patricians -- wealthy people; military leaders, priests, landowners.  Could serve in Senate

300
What are lines of latitude and longitude?

Latitude - lines that go horizontal, measures distance north and south

Longitude - lines that go vertical, measures distance east and west

300

Where did the earliest civilization of India settle?

Indus River Valley

300

Name 3 goods traded by the Phoenicians.

Purple Dye (murex)

Cedar wood

Pottery/Glassware

300

How did Greece defeat Persia in the Persian Wars?  Give an example.

Used clever strategies to defeat the Persians despite being outnumbered.  Used the landscape to draw Persians into small areas to more easily defeat them
300
What form of government did Rome first have.  Describe it.

Republic. 3 branches: Senate, Consuls, Assembly

400

What are the two special lines of latitude and longitude?  What are their measurements?

Equator & Prime Meridian. 0 degrees.

400

What was the Silk Road?  What moved along it?

Ancient trade route by land and sea connecting Europe to Asia

Traded goods (silk, foods, minerals), ideas (Buddhism, technology, knowledge), and disease

400

What did Darius build to connect the far reaches of the Persian Empire?  Describe it.

Royal Road (Sardis to Susa)

Relay stations every 15 miles for horses, rest stops

400

Name 8 Greek Gods and what they were the god of.

Zeus, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, Hestia, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Hermes, ...

400

Describe the rule of 4 Roman Emperors.

Augustus, Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Diocletian, Trajan, Hadrian, Vespasian, Constantine, Honorius, Vespasian, Romulus Augustus

500

What are the Five Themes of Geography?

Location

Place

Region

Movement

Human-Environment Interaction

500

Describe an early Indus city.

Grid pattern streets

Sewer/drainage system

Upper & Lower towns

Citadel for protection

500

How were the Phoenicians advanced for their time?  Describe 2 examples.

Created the first alphabet system

Built lighthouses and used constellations to navigate the sea at night

Built Trireme and Quinquereme warships armed with bronze spears

500

Describe Greek architecture, and explain what it is called today.

Used stone and marble

Columns (doric, ionic, corinthian), pediment roof design

Neoclassical architecture

500
State and convert all Roman Numerals.

I = 1

V = 5

X = 10

L = 50

C = 100

D = 500

M = 1,000

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