Geography Skills
What are the two special lines of latitude and longitude? What are their measurements?
Equator & Prime Meridian. 0 degrees.
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
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
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, ...
Describe the rule of 4 Roman Emperors.
Augustus, Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Diocletian, Trajan, Hadrian, Vespasian, Constantine, Honorius, Vespasian, Romulus Augustus
What is a Political Map? What does it show?
What blocked India from the rest of Asia?
Himalaya Mountains
What did Cyrus change in the Persian Empire for the first time of any civilization?
Made Freedom of Religion (religious tolerance)
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
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
Latitude - lines that go horizontal, measures distance north and south
Longitude - lines that go vertical, measures distance east and west
Where did the earliest civilization of India settle?
Indus River Valley
Name 3 goods traded by the Phoenicians.
Purple Dye (murex)
Cedar wood
Pottery/Glassware
How did Greece defeat Persia in the Persian Wars? Give an example.
Republic. 3 branches: Senate, Consuls, Assembly
Shows the natural features of the landscape, such as rivers, bodies of water, mountains, vegetation.
What protected China from the nomadic tribes?
Great Wall of China
What were the Phoenicians best known for?
Sea traders along the Mediterranean
Greece was not a unified country, instead it was made up of what?
City states. Small independent countries with their own governments.
Access to the sea, mountains for protection, hills for defense, rich volcanic soil, freshwater river
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
Location
Place
Region
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
Describe an early Indus city.
Grid pattern streets
Sewer/drainage system
Upper & Lower towns
Citadel for protection
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
Describe Greek architecture, and explain what it is called today.
Used stone and marble
Columns (doric, ionic, corinthian), pediment roof design
Neoclassical architecture
I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1,000