Japan
Japan is densely populated, what does this mean?
This means that Japan has a lot of people in a smaller, more condensed place
What was the goal of the Great Wall of China? (Two reasons)
To keep out invaders and to transport people and goods
What was the colosseum? What happened there?
The colosseum was an arena where Romans watched men fight men and/or animals, and animals fight animals for fun.
I am a giant sandy area in Northern China
Gobi Desert
Who is a person who excavates dig sites in order to study and get a better understanding of a particular history?
Archaeologist
Describe the shift in power that happens during the Heian Period
Power shifted from emperors to samurai or shogun
What are the three major natural barriers (both land and sea) that isolated ancient China from the rest of the world?
Himalayas, Gobi Desert, Pacific Ocean
Why did the early Romans like the location of Rome? (There are two major reasons)
Tiber River and Seven Hills
I am a large body of water surrounding Japan and touching eastern China
Pacific Ocean
What is a large group of islands called?
Archipelago
What are two reasons that make Japan a very tough country to invade?
Thousands of islands
Mountain ranges
Volcanoes
Surrounded by Pacific Ocean
Samurais
What was the Silk Road?
A trade network that connected cultures all the way from East Asia to Africa to Europe
What made Vikings different from the other Germanic tribes?
They attacked by using boats on the sea instead of attacking from land.
I am the mountain range in northern Italy
Alps
Wild, savage people
Barbarians
The reason Japan didn't want to trade with or welcome foreigners from the outside world...
The Japanese did not want disease nor warfare on their land and didn’t want other cultures to mix with their own
First Emperor of China
Qin
Why is it important that Caesar gave citizenship to the people Rome conquered?
It is important because it caused the size and population of the Roman Empire to grow. However, it also caused the Roman Empire to adopt new cultural practices and traditions. It also was one of the major reasons that the empire fell.
I am the mountain range that acts as a natural defense between China and India
Himalayas
Pax Romana
What are two reasons that the ancient Japanese would put things such as armor, weapons, or pottery in their tombs?
To prepare for the afterlife
To represent themselves and who they were on earth
What Chinese philosopher taught and believed in the Golden Rule?
Confucius
What were some of the major reasons that the Roman Empire fell? (Give three)
Weak borders attacked by Germanic Tribes, internal struggles over leadership, harsh taxing on the Roman citizens, food shortages, disease, a change to Christianity, and the empire became too big to govern properly.
I am the large body of water that was crucial to Roman expansion into Asia and Africa
Mediterranean Sea
A state in which power is held by the people and their elected representatives, which has an elected or nominated leader