Early Civilizations
This ancient society was based around the Nile River and is famous for the Pyramids.
What is Egypt?
True or False: Shang China was considered a "River Valley Civilization?"
True
These were the two major city-states of Ancient Greece that would fight in the Peloponnesian War
What is Athens and Sparta?
True or False?
The Byzantine Empire split from the Western part of the Roman Empire?
The economic system that was typical of the Middle Ages that involved the relationship between a Lord and their peasants.
What is Feudalism?
This River Valley Civilization would evolve into what we know as India.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
This was a philosophy developed in China that would go on to heavily influence early laws as well as relationships between people such as the parent and the child.
What is Confucianism?
This body of water heavily influenced the development of the Roman Empire as well as the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The code of honor that was practiced by knights in the Medieval Period.
What is chivalry?
This civilization, also known as the "Fertile Crescent" used Cuneiform as it's system of writing.
What is Mesopotamia?
This short-lived yet influential Chinese dynasty fell apart as a result of constant warring within. Was also considered a Golden Age of China
What is the Han Dynasty?
True or False:
One of the major reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire was heavy political corruption within the government?
True
This is the form of Christianity that arose within the Byzantine Empire that differed from the Roman Catholic form of Christianity.
What is Eastern Orthodox?
This doctrine, written in 1215 set out to limit the power of the Monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?
"An eye for an eye." This early form of codified law would be the basis of legal policy in the ancient city of Babylon.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This mandate is the way that Emperors in Classical China justified their rulership.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What is the mountainous terrain of Greece?
This Emperor of the Byzantine Empire developed a code of law that codified the former laws of the Roman Empire, preserving them within this new code of law.
Who is Justinian?
This king of England was known for being so bad and cruel that it led to the creation of a document that sought to limit the power of the monarchy.
Who is King John of England?
This revolution marked the birth of agriculture and the domestication of animals and plants that would go on to heavily influence early societies.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
These characteristics represent which important Confucian virtue?
-Showing Respect for parents
-Honoring your elders
-Protecting the family's honor
What is filial piety?
This period is named after the spread of Greek culture throughout the world as a result of the conquests of Alexander the Great
What is the Hellenistic Period?
This nation would go on to be heavily influenced by the work of Byzantine missionaries and would eventually develop its form of Orthodox Christianity.
What is Russia?
Power within the medieval period was based upon the ownership of what?
What is land?