Greece
A geographic feature that created independent city states in Greece
What are the mountains?
The less rugged terrain (mountains and sea) , helped do what?
How did Italy’s geography help the Roman unite the peninsula?
Gave easy access to both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea (trade routes)
How the geography of the Byzantine Empire helped to formulate its success?
military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries, did what?
It made Islam spread so quickly
a way to publicly display rights that each citizen had in the public and private sphere
What is the Twelve tables
A politician who ruled Athens during its golden Age
Who is Pericles?
An entire system of rail roads was a contribution towards what?
What was Pax Romana
He reorganized the government for Byzantine Empire
Justinian
literature, philosophy, science, medicine, mathematics, and art
Was the legacy of Islamic Empires
a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
How did Sparta & Athens differ?
Athens was a democratic state and Sparta was a military state.
Because Rome extended their citizenship...
What was, How was Rome able to conquer a vast empire?
Constantinople was what for byzantine
Its capital
Who is Allah
What was their God
spread of a people from their original homeland.
Diaspora
What government did Ancient Athens develop?
Athenian Democracy
Corruption, the division of the empire, and invasion by Germanic tribes
What was,the decline of Rome?
Shaping Christian Orthodoxy, was what?
What is the legacy of the Byzantine Empire?
Mecca was the birthplace of what?
What is Islam
The belief that there is only one God
Who was Alexander the Great? What was Hellenistic culture?
Alexander the Great was a great military strategists and leader. Hellenistic culture is are areas Alexander The Great conquered such as Greece,Egypt, India, and Persia
Economic problems, government corruption, crime and private armies, and the rise of Julius Caesar as dictator..
What ended the roman republic
Ottoman Turks in 1453
Who Conquered byzantine
the chosen recipient and messenger of the word of God through the divine revelations
Who is Muhammad
the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages
Cultural Diffusion