Before Government
First Governments
Types of Government
Associated Geography
People & Events
100
Scientists & historians use these Greek words meaning "old stone age" to refer to the first 190,000 years of human existence.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
100
Domestication of animals, permanent settlement & agriculture led to the need for government because of these 2 things.
What are increased population living together in one place & goods to protect?
100
The category of government to which monarchy, empire & dictatorship belong.
What is autocracy?
100
The cradle of civilization; located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers & including land that is now Iraq and parts of Syria, Turkey & Jordan.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The king of this city-state, located to the north of Sumer, founded the world's first empire in the ____________s BC.
What is Akkad? Who is Sargon of Akkad? What is the 2300s BC?
200
This term refers to the way humans found nourishment prior to 10,000 BC.
What is hunting & gathering?
200
The very earliest governments appeared during the Neolithic Era. They were tribal chiefdoms that eventually evolved into ____________, a system of government based off the family structure.
What is monarchy?
200
A government resulting from one leader seizing power through military force; in ancient Greece this was not necessarily an oppressive government.
What is a tyranny?
200
The name and location of the world's first civilization.
What is Sumer, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq)?
200
This king of Babylon conquered all of Mesopotamia in the 1700s BC. He founded the Babylonian Empire & held it together with the world's first written ______ ______. ______________ _____________ still influences law today.
Who is Hammurabi? What is law code & Hammurabi's Code?
300
This was originally the only human lifestyle, before government existed. It slowly decreased between 10,000 & 1,000 BC although it is still practiced in some remote areas of the world today.
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
300
These forms of government first appeared in Ancient Greece between 900 & 508 BC.
What are aristocracy, gerontocracy, & democracy?
300
A blend of these 2 types of government often existed in early civilizations.
What are monarchy & theocracy?
300
The 3 seas that surround Greece.
What are the Mediterranean, the Adriatic & the Aegean?
300
This person conquered _________,the area now known as France, Switzerland & Belgium, then returned to Rome & used his army to declare himself dictator for life.
What is Gaul & who was Gaius Julius Caesar?
400
Around _________, the end of the last Ice Age led to the discovery of ________. ________ began to _________ abundantly. Eventually people noticed it was possible to collect _________ and ______ them.
What are 10,000 BC, agriculture; plants, grow; seeds, plant?
400
This type of government developed in Mesopotamia around 2300 BC, after monarchy & theocracy. The Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Greeks & Romans all had this at some point in their history.
What is an empire?
400
This is a government that has forcibly brought formerly independent territories & peoples under its control.
What is an empire?
400
These areas made up the Roman Empire after 476 AD, also referred to as the Byzantine Empire.
What are Turkey, Greece, & the Middle East?
400
This brought the native tribal peoples of the Eurasian steppes into Europe & southwest Asia. It occurred in waves between 3,000 & 1100 BC & resulted in the development of new civilizations & languages, such as those of the Greeks & Romans.
What are the Indo-European Migrations?
500
The Neolithic _________ refers to the period between 10,000 & 8000 BC, when __________, __________, _________ & _____________ arose in ________________.
What is the Neolithic Revolution refers to the period between 10,000 & 8,000 BC, when agriculture, domestication of animals, permanent settlement & the need for government arose in Mesopotamia?
500
This was NOT one of the earliest governments. It did not appear until the 20th century (1900s AD).
What is dictatorship?
500
Terms that came from the Greek words for the following concepts: *rule by one chief *rule by the people *rule by the few *rule by the best *rule by elders *rule by the gods *absence of a ruler (no government)
What are: *monarchy *democracy *oligarchy *aristocracy *gerontocracy *theocracy *anarchy
500
When it was at its height, the boundaries of the Roman Empire were: the ________ Ocean in the west Hadrian's _____ in the northwest the Rhine _______ in the northeast the Danube ________ and the Black_____ in the east the Sahara and Arabian _______ in the south
What are: -the Atlantic Ocean -Hadrian's Wall -the Rhine River -the Danube River -the Black Sea -the Sahara & Arabian Deserts?
500
What major events occurred during the following years: *753 BC *509 BC *508 BC *27 BC *476 AD *1453 AD
What are: *the city-state of Rome founded *the Roman Republic founded *democracy established in Athens *the fall of the Roman Republic/start of the Empire *the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire *the fall of the eastern half of the Roman Empire
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