Ancient Greece
The three geographical features that affected the ancient Greek's way of life.
What are the sea, the land & the climate?
The belief that a ruler was chosen by the gods to rule over China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Means "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
The time before written records.
What is prehistory?
Cold, dry wind storm that blows into the Indian subcontinent from the Northeast.
What is a winter monsoon?
The father of philosophy.
Who is Socrates?
Two major river systems that flowed through ancient China.
What are the Huang He and the Yangtze?
Two rivers that frame the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
A person who has no single, settled home.
What is a nomad?
Ancient city-state that had sophisticated plumbing system?
What is Mohenjo Daro?
A government ruled by a few powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
Shang kings consulted the gods through these.
What are oracle bones?
Developed a single, uniformed code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Humans and other creatures that walk upright such as australopithecines.
What are hominids?
Two major rivers that affected life in the ancient Indian subcontinent.
Who is Pericles?
The pattern of rise and decline of ancient China's ruling families.
What is the dynastic cycle?
Developed a number system based on 60.
Who are the Sumerians?
Another name for the Neolithic Age.
What is the New Stone Age?
Built along the Indus River Valley to keep water from flooding the cities.
What are levees?
Character in Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun.
Who is Icarus?
Dynasty that overthrew the Shang dynasty.
What is the Zhou dynasty?
Sumerian pyramid-temples.
What are ziggurats?
Early hominids originated in this part of the world.
What is East Africa?
What are India, Pakistan & Bangladesh?