This is why people begin living in permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic revolution?
An original, firsthand account of an event or time period
what is a primary source?
The bodies of water that surround Greece.
What are the Ionian, Mediterranean and Aegean Seas?
These are the social classes of Ancient Rome.
Who are patricians and plebians.
The northernmost point of the Ancient Roman Empire.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
Adapting wild animals and plants for human use.
What is domestication?
A type of government where a small group of wealthy landowners rule selfishly
What is an oligarchy?
Three Greek philosphers.
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle ?
This body of water was called the Roman Lake.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the type of map that shows landforms.
What is a physical map?
In river valleys.
Where did the first civilizations form?
The king who developed the first written legal code.
Who was Hammurabi?
This is one cause of Greece developing independent city states.
What is the mountainous terrain?
This is the city destroyed by Rome in the Punic Wars.
What is Carthage?
This is the capital of the Persian Empire, burned by Alexander the Great.
What is Persepolis?
This is when the Neolithic Revolution happened.
What is 10,000 years ago?
King Darius I built the road to facilitate communication throughout the western portions of his empire.
What was the Royal Road?
He was the father of modern geometry.
Who was Euclid?
After the Western Roman Empire fell in 476, the eastern half continued and was known as this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
These are the rivers the first civilizations developed on.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates, Nile, Indus River and Yellow River?
This allowed people to settle in one place and eventually developed other aspects of civilization, instead of living a nomadic lifestyle.
What is a stable food supply?
These are the cultures that blended to create Hellenistic culture.
What is Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian?
Drama, philosophy, mathematics, democracy, and medicine, to name a few.
What were contributions of the Ancient Greeks to the modern world?
This was the first Emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
This is why it is important to study geography when you are learning history.
What is understanding connections between people, places and events?