Prehistory
These four disciplines are core pieces that make up social studies. Three of them are also career fields. Name them all.
What are Historiography, Anthropology, Archaeology, and History?
The first civilization to develop in Mesopotamia is known as...
What was ancient Sumer?
The first civilizations in Ancient India and China are called this.
What is the Indus River and Huang He/Yellow River Civilizations?
This city state became a large metropolis and a hub of ancient Greek innovations, culture, traditions, and strength.
What is Athens?
The Ancient Romans created and copied many innovations from the Ancient Greeks. Name one innovation.
What are aqueducts, democracy/senate, military strategy, etc.
This time period signified a transition from hunter gatherer societies to settled, agriculture based ones.
What is the Agricultural Revolution or Neolithic Age?
Known as the Fertile Crescent, this area supported the first civilizations because of these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These two religions developed in ancient India and are still practiced today around the world.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
These three philosophers were teachers and students of each other. They formed the foundation for Western thought. They believed in absolute truth, knowledge, academic studies, the ideal, and created many modern fields such as politics, ethics, and science.
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
This place was important to Roman society. People would gather for political, social, and cultural events. These would be speeches, markets, and religious festivals.
What is the Roman Forum?
This practice with nature, animals specifically, was a key part of the transition from hunter gatherer societies to farming.
What is the domestication of animals?
This declaration was created in Babylon and codified into law. It was displayed on pillars all around the region, was very strict, and is the first example of a law code in history.
What is the Law Code of Hammurabi?
This ruler defeated the other warring states to unite China for the first time. He began construction on the Great Wall, enforced legalism, and drank mercury to find immortality.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
This ruler was the king of Macedon during the Hellenistic Period, undefeated in battle, and conquered a massive empire which spread Greek culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This group of three leaders attempted to rule Rome together during the transition to imperial Rome but ended up betraying each other and only one prevailed. Name the group and people.
What is the Triumvirate and Caesar, Pompey, Crassus?
This Neolithic city was built during the transition from hunter gatherer societies to agricultural. It contains evidence of animal domestication, pottery, obsidian tools, and houses with doors on the roofs.
What is Catal Huyuk?
Ancient Egypt's civilization is classified into five time periods. Three of them are successful and two are filled with instability. Name them all.
What are the Old Kingdom, Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Intermediate Period, New Kingdom?
Historians debate over these two dynasties in ancient China as being the first established in Chinese history.
What are the Xia and Shang Dynasties?
The elite military from this city state held off the Persian army for two days straight at the Battle of Thermopylae to allow the city state of Athens to be evacuated. They were led by Leonidas I.
What is Sparta?
This ruler of Carthage fought against Rome in the Punic Wars and defeated them at the Battle of Cannae by encircling the Roman soldiers.
Who is Hannibal?
What is animism?
Name all of the ancient civilizations we discussed in this and the surrounding region.
Who are Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Lydians, Sea Peoples, Hyksos?
The Four Noble Truths are a key part of Buddhism. List them all.
What are: 1. All life is full of suffering, pain, and sorrow. 2. The cause of suffering is rooted in evils such as greed, desire, and hatred. 3. The only cure for suffering is to overcome desire. 4. The way to overcome desire is to follow the eightfold path.
Diocletian and Constantine used three strategies to save the "dying" Roman Empire. Name them.
They split the empire in two (Latin speaking and Greek), renamed it to the Byzantine Empire, moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople, and focused on a defensive instead of expansive strategy.
These Five Good Emperors were known for ruling in a time of peace known as Pax Romana. They restructured the tax system, brought back people who were exiled, building walls, repairing roads and aqueducts, and assisting families with programs.
Who are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius and bonus Lucius Verus?