GRAPES
Earth's surface, climate, and landscape
What is geography?
The two main rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
Main river
What is the Nile River?
Nickname for the Yellow River
What is the "China's Sorrow"?
City-state that encourages travel, trade, and exchange of ideas
What is Athens?
Government
What is politics?
Name of the writing system
What is cuneiform?
What is uniting Upper and Lower Egypt?
Material used by the Shang to make weapons and tools
What is bronze?
Ruling power in the hands of one person who is not a lawful king
What is a tryrant?
What is religion?
Reason civilization developed in the Fertile Crescent
What is the rivers created rich farmland?
Egypt eventually fell to and became part of this empire
What is the Roman empire?
Built to protect China from northern invaders like the Mongols
What is the Great Wall of China?
Reason Greeks become traders and sailors
What is very little good farmland?
Organizing people into different levels or classes
What is social structure?
Many territories and people who are controlled by one government
What is an empire?
Bought goods using this
Used for travel, trade, and cultural exchange
What is the Silk Road?
Alliance of Greek poli that defeated the Persians and was led by Athens
What is the Delian League?
Use of resources such as good and money
What is economy?
What Sumerian city-states fought each other over
What are land and river use?
The quality or behavior showing justice, order, and righteousness
What is Ma'at?
Philosophy that says harmony is created by finding natural balance
What is Daoism?
Reason the the Peloponnesian War was fought
What is Athens built the Parthenon with Delian League money which angered the other poli?