Unit 1: Pre-Civilization
Unit 2: Mesopotamia and the Americas
Unit 3: Ancient Egypt
Unit 4: Ancient Greece
Unit 5: Ancient Rome
100
Which time period was known as the "Old Stone Age" and characterized by hunter-gatherer societies?
What is Paleolithic?
100
The first civilization to arise in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
100
The four geographic boundaries that isolated and protected Egypt from invasion.
What is the Nile Delta (N), Eastern Desert and Mountain Range, Cataracts (S), and the Sahara Desert (W)?
100
The three early civilizations to evolve in Greece that heavily influenced Greek culture.
Who are the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Dorians?
100
The Father of the Roman People, and the "Founder of Rome".
Who are Aeneas and Romulus?
200
Critically important to Paleolithic peoples survival and adaptation during the Ice Age.
What was the importance of fire?
200
The river systems located in Mesopotamia that acted as the birthplace of civilization, and the nickname they were known as...
What is the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Fertile Crescent?
200
United the Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Egypt to create the world's first nation.
Who is Narmer?
200
The city-state that emerged as a leader in democracy, education, and citizenship.
What is Athens?
200
The four steps Rome took to move from a monarchy to a republic to gaining control of the Mediterranean.
What is overthrowing the Tarquins (7 Kings), establishing a Republic led by the aristocracy, taking over the Italian peninsula, and battling Carthage in the Punic Wars?
300
Changed the course of world history and ushered in the Neolithic Era - allowed cities to begin to develop.
What is the agricultural revolution?
300
The civilization and king that established the world's first empire.
Who are the Akkadians and Sargon?
300
The tablet found in 1799 by Napoleon's army that allowed for the deciphering of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The organization the arose after the Persian Wars that inspired Pericles and the creation of the Athenian Empire?
What is the Delian League?
300
The creator of the Roman Empire and the age that characterized his rule.
Who is Octavian/Augustus and "Pax Romana"?
400
Critically important for Neolithic peoples ability to work, travel, and have a steady food supply.
What are domesticated animals?
400
The five geographic regions within North America that led to the creation of diverse Native American groups dependent upon natural resources.
What is the Arctic Tundra, Pacific Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands?
400
The three pillars of Egypt that preserved their society and culture for thousands of years.
What is Religion, Military Conquest, and Role of the Pharaoh?
400
Athens was defeated, the empire crumbled, all of Greece was weakened, and civil war would eventually begin anew.
What is the impact of the Peloponnesian Wars?
400
The legacy of Rome in law, government, language, and the arts.
What is Law (equal under the law, judges fair and unbiased, innocent until proven guilty), Government (republic of equal citizens, citizenship), Language (Latin-romance languages, law, medicine, history), Art (Statues-realism, domes and arches, concrete)?
500
The six aspects necessary for a people to be defined as a civilization.
What is cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and system of writing?
500
Built the largest empire in the ancient Americas by creating a highly organized government and society and centered around the capital city of Cuzco.
Who are the Incans?
500
The last true pharaoh of Egypt, know as "the Great" for their renown on the battlefield, construction and restoration of buildings and monuments, and popularity among the people.
Who is "Ramses II"?
500
Credited with beginning the Hellenistic Age which ushered in a time of massive dispersion and appreciation of Greek culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
Greatest leaders of the Byzantine Empire - created a code of law that became the basis of codes throughout western Europe.
Who are Justinian and Theodora?
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