Geography
Mesopotamia is between these two rivers
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
He was responsible for spreading the Hellenistic culture
Alexander the Great
This civilization created the wheel, sail, and wooden plow
Mesopotamia
War between the Athens and the Delian League and Sparta and the Peloponnesian League
The Peloponnesian War
Type of government when a king rules
monarchy
Greece had city-states on the Peloponnesian peninsula, the Balkan peninsula and this other piece of land.
Asia Minor
He started a civil war in Rome, was popular among the plebeians, was assassinated by the Senate for naming himself dictator for life.
Julius Caesar
This civilization created a calendar to track the predictable flooding of the Nile River
Egypt
When Moses led the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery
The Exodus
Athens used this type of government where citizens voted directly
Direct Democracy
These two rivers were important to the development of Ancient China
Yellow and Yangtze
Used Legalism to rule China, united China after the period of the Warring States to start his dynasty
Qin Shi Huang di
This civilization created sanitation systems, built their cities using a grid system and bricks, used scalpels and medical education to do surgery, and came up with zero, algebra, Hindu-Arabic numerals, and infinity
India
When China was divided into different states each being ruled by a different leader and they fought each other for 200 years.
Period of the Warring States
Sparta used this type of government that used a few wealthy men to rule
Oligarchy
These winds affected the wet and dry seasons of India
Named the first Roman emperor
Augustus Caesar (Octavian)
This civilization created silk, porcelain, magnetic compass, paper making, and woodblock printing
China
200 year time period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire that started with Augustus Caesar became the first emperor of Rome.
Pax Romana
Type of government when citizens elect their leaders like the Romans started out using
Republic
Explain why Upper Egypt is in the southern part of Egypt and Lower Egypt is in the northern part of Egypt
Because the land in southern Egypt is more mountainous and higher up than the land in northern Egypt which is why the Nile river flows north.
Name the first Israelite king who united the 12 tribes, name the second king who established Jerusalem as the capitol, and the third king who built the first temple.
Saul, David, Solomon
This civilization created aqueducts, the Coliseum, roads, concrete, bridges, arches, domes, bath houses
Romans
When Greece's city-states cooperated to defeat the Persians-included the Battle of Marathon, Battle of Thermopylae, Battle of Salamis
Persian Wars
When a ruler conquers other territories and unites them under one ruler in an entire region. Sargon created the first one.
an empire