Prehistoric Cultures
This is the time in human history before writing was invented.
What is prehistory?
Ancient Greece was divided into independent political units made up of a city and the surrounding land.
What are city-states?
After overthrowing their kings, the Romans created this form of government in which citizens elected leaders.
What is a republic?
This city became the capital and center of the eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
Early people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food were called these.
Who were hunter-gatherers?
This Greek city-state developed an early form of democracy.
What is Athens?
Originally known as Octavian, this man became Rome’s first emperor.
Who was Augustus?
This emperor tried to reunite the Roman Empire and ordered Roman laws organized into a new legal system.
Who was Justinian?
During the Ice Ages, lower sea levels exposed this strip of land that helped people migrate from Asia into North America.
What is a land bridge?
The period between about 500 and 300 BC marked by major Greek achievements is called this.
What is the Golden Age of Greece?
This roughly 200-year period of peace and achievement in the Roman Empire is known as the “Roman Peace.”
What is the Pax Romana?
This powerful wife of Justinian convinced him not to flee Constantinople during a major revolt.
Who was Theodora?
This process means changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
The Greeks made major advances during their Golden Age in areas such as art, architecture, literature, science, and this field associated with thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
What is philosophy?
These Roman structures carried water over long distances.
What are aqueducts?
Byzantine artists became famous for these pictures made from small pieces of colored stone or glass.
What are mosaics?
Once farming created extra food, or a surplus, two important things became possible. Name one.
What are trade/barter, population growth, permanent settlements, or the development of social classes?
Alexander the Great spread Greek culture throughout his empire. When Greek culture blended with cultures from other places, this new culture developed.
What is Hellenistic culture?
Historians often use this year as the end of the Western Roman Empire because the last western Roman emperor was overthrown.
What is AD 476?
In 1453, this group captured Constantinople and brought the eastern Roman Empire to an end.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?