Greek Geography & Culture
Early Rome
Islam
Key Historical Concepts
Early Rome
Islam
China & River Dynasties
Key Historical Concepts
100

This peninsula, covered in mountains, was the main land of ancient Greece.

What is the Balkan Peninsula?

100

Legendary twins who were abandoned, raised by a she-wolf, and founded Rome.

Who are Romulus and Remus?

100

Muslims, Christians, and Jews all trace ancestry back to this figure.
 

Who is Abraham?

100

The Shang valued the group over the individual, respect for parents, and consulted these in religion.
 

What are ancestors / family?

100

Name the two servants of the pharaoh for whom Joseph interprets dreams, 

The baker and the cup bearer

200

Greeks became master shipbuilders because of this.

What is the sea / sea trade?

200

This form of government, established after the last king, allowed citizens to vote.

What is a republic?

200

This is the Islamic holy book, written in Arabic.

What is the Qur’an?

200

This political system gave land to nobles in exchange for loyalty to the king.

What is feudalism?

200

These narrative poems celebrated heroic deeds in Greek culture.

Answer: What are epics?


300

This group gave the Greeks architecture, burial customs, and religious rituals.

Who are the Minoans?

300

These wealthy landowners held most power in Rome, compared to the common farmers and artisans.

Who are the Patricians?

300

Islam requires this pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime if possible.

What is the Hajj?

300

The Zhou claimed rulers had this “divine approval” to govern.

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

300

This war strategy by Carthage included using elephants to cross the Alps.

What is Hannibal’s invasion?

400

This poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Who is Homer?

400

Rome fought this city in the Punic Wars.

What is Carthage?

400

The holy city Muhammad fled to during the Hijrah.

 What is Medina?

400

These animal bones were used by the Shang to consult the gods.

What are oracle bones?

400

Greek city-states operated much like these today.

What are independent countries?

500

These ships were sturdy, had battering rams, and were used in Greek naval battles.

tryremes

500

He led an army with elephants across the Alps against Rome.

Who is Hannibal?

500

Muhammad was visited by this angel who instructed him to preach Islam.

 Who is Gabriel?

500

These two rivers provided fertile soil and supported early Chinese civilizations.

 What are the Huang He and Yangtze?

500

This pattern describes the rise, fall, and replacement of dynasties in China.

What is the dynastic cycle?

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