Unit 1 + 2
The rivers of Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
The Greek name for the city-state and its surrounding area
Polis
The most important elected position in the Roman Republic, in which two people serve one-year terms
Consul
The date that the Western Roman Empire was overthrown
476 AD
Peasants who were legally bound to the land they worked on
Serfs
The creator of the earliest-known law code
Hammurabi
The Athenian leader during the Peloponnesian War who was killed by a plague
Pericles
The Roman who appointed himself "dictator for life" and was assassinated in 44 BC
Julius Caesar
The Byzantine emperor responsible for creating the Hagia Sophia
Justinian
Chinese philosophy that emphasized passivity and inaction
Daoism
Indo-European people who invented the chariot and used iron tools
Hittites
The sea battle in which Athens defeated Persia
Salamis
The dynasty of Roman emperors who were all picked by adoption
Five Good Emperors (Antonine Dynasty)
The name of the Islamic holy book
Quran
System of crop rotation in medieval Europe
Three Field System
The writing system created by the Minoans
Linear A
Father of Alexander the Great
Philip II of Macedon
The Carthaginian general who was almost successful in defeating Rome during the Second Punic War
Hannibal
The saint who established a set of rules for monks to live by
St. Benedict
The birth name of the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
The first people to ever practice agriculture
Natufians
Created the philosophical allegory of "The Cave"
Plato
The Jewish group that did not believe in the bodily resurrection
Sadducees
Historian who recorded the lives of Theodora and her husband
Procopius
The exact date when Charlemagne was proclaimed as Roman Emperor