4 Civilizations
Hieroglyphic writing
Architecture (built the pyramids)
Astronomy (365 day calendar by observing stars)
Geometry
Art
Medicine
Mummification
ANCIENT EGYPT
Which word best fits the definition of roaming or wandering about from place to place?
nomadic
What was the official common language used in the whole roman empire?
Latin
The Persian empire was built on what principal?
Tolerance
1347 - 1352: marked a period in which a pandemic spread throughout the medieval world and killed a significant portion of the population.
The black death
Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
HAMMURABI
Aside from obtaining food from farming, people in the Neolithic Age learned how to train and breed animals for food consumption. This is called?
Domestication
The Western part of the Roman Empire was crushed and crumbled because these people overran it and destroyed it:
Barbarians/ German tribes
Greek culture blended with aspects of Eastern Culture
During the early middle ages a new political & social system developed because people needed protection from the invaders.
Civilization located along the Huang He (Yellow River) Character writing
First to make silk cloth from silkworm cocoons
Advanced art (bronze, jade, and pottery)
What does Neolithic Age mean?
New age
What Roman emperor brought the "pax romana" to the Roman Empire?
Augustus
Became the king of Macedonia
Admired Greek Culture
Wanted to unite Greece and Macedonia
King Phillip II
Famous scientists, who was credited with perfecting the telescope and was sentenced to house arrest?
Galileo Galilei
Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?
the Euphrates and the Tigris
One new method of bringing water to the village during the Neolithic Age was through a new technique called?
irrigation
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting
Republic
The Persians were defeated by who in 331 B.C.
Alexander the Great
The __________ funded artists, writers, and scholars to create new pieces.
Wealthy/ Nobles
Located in Indus River Valley (India)
Sanskrit writing
Public sewers
Water supply (Harappan baths)
Urban planning
Ability to make cotton cloth
What does Paleolithic Age mean?
old stone age
The system of Roman laws that were codified and gave mostly protection on individual rights?
What was the name of the road that ran through the Persian empire?
The royal road
What other historical period was occurring simultaneously (at the same time) with the Protestant Reformation which led to the challenging of the church?
Renaissance