ANCIENT ROME
Who is the Military Hero, Dictator for Life of Rome, Killed by his friends?
Who is Julius Caesar?
This means to absorb fully or make one's own; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully.
What is assimilate?
The main city state in Ancient Greece that focused more on the military.
What is Sparta?
This is the main reason the Great Wall built.
What is to keep out foreign invaders?
Paper proving that you had bought good works.
What are indulgences?
What is the country the Romans fought during the Punic Wars?
What is Carthage?
This invasion led to the wiping out of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures and advancements; Plunged Greece into the dark ages.
What is the Dorian Invasion?
This city-state won the Peloponnesian War.
What is Sparta?
They were used as a form of divination ( the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means) in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.
What are oracle bones?
Martin Luther wrote these and hung them on the church door to discuss his disagreements with the Catholic Church.
What are the 95 Theses?
The first emperor of Rome.
Who is Octavius Augustus?
Spartan force holds off this empire at Thermopylae. ("This is Sparta").
Who are the Persians?
Athens is famous for this type of government.
What is a democracy?
These things traveled through the Silk Road.
What are ideas, disease, inventions, people, trade, religion?
Enforce or carry out laws
Suggest new laws
Command the armed forces
Appoint government positions such as judges and other officials
Make treaties with foreign governments
What is the executive branch?
Give the correct order: Republic-Empire-Monarchy.
What is Monarchy-Republic-Empire?
Why did the plebeians rebel against the patricians?
Because they wanted political equality and a fair distribution of wealth.
Greek Historian, considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in Western Asia and the Mediterranean lands.
Who is Herodotus?
Name the Chinese philosopher who was one of the most influential teachers in Chinese history, and still today. (hint: his philosophies became religion and were used in the Han dynasty)
Confucius
This branch of the United States government that consists of the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
The term for the two hundred years of peace in Rome.
What is Pax Romana?
Name the three factors that sparked the collapse of Rome.
What are barbarians attacks, an increase in taxes, and civil wars?
These people lived on the island of Crete.
Who are the Minoans?
This was the first empire in China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
The location of Rome in Italy and its significance.
What is centrally located in both Italy and the Mediterranean Sea?
(Rome could control trade in the Mediterranean. Near Tiber River for irrigation and 15 miles from the sea, securing it from pirates.)