Human Origins and the Neolithic Revolution
What was the time that produced a seismic shift in human life and is considered the third of four major milestones in human history?
What is the neolithic revolution?
These two communities settled on Crete and Southern Greece and collided in a trade relationship.
What are the Minoans and Mycenaeans?
Who were the social groups of the Roman Republic?
What seven characteristics must a knight show?
What is courage, justice, mercy, generosity, faith, nobility, and hope?
What is the oldest civilization?
What is Sumer?
This Greek ruler united Greece into political civilization allowed local rule and ended the era of city-state independence.
Who is Philip II?
Who did Rome become rivals with because of control of trade around the Mediterranean Sea, what were the wars called, and who won?
What is Carthage, the Punic Wars, Rome won
What are three impacts from the fall of Rome?
What are disruption trade, fall of cities, and population shifts?
What are 5 out of 8 characteristics of a civilization?
What are advanced cities, organized central government, complex religion, job specialization, and a system of writing or record keeping?
Pericles led Athens during most of its golden age and had these 3 goals.
1. Strengthen democracy
2. Strengthen the Athenian Empire
3. Glorify Athens
What were the first three groups to settle the area?
Who are the Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans?
What three classes do Medieval writings view society as divided into?
What are those who fight, those who work, and those who pray?
Who was a female pharaoh that assumed rule as regent, built a vast trading empire, sent out military expeditions to conquer, supported developments in mining and agriculture, and her record of rule was demolished by her nephew, Thutmosis III?
Who is Hatshepsut?
Who was the great Greek leader that Egypt welcomed in as their liberator?
Who is Alexander the Great?
Which brothers championed reforms to help the poor and were murdered because of it?
Who are Tiberius and Gracchus?
What are three important characteristics of the Middle Ages?
What are classical heritage, the importance of Catholic Church, and Social and Cultural norms across Europe?
Why Egypt often called the "Gift of the Nile?"
What is being dependent on the river for agriculture, protection and trade; placed Egypt at the center of the world of trade; cataracts, mountains, and desert protected them from invaders; and the Nile floods predictably every year making it easier to harness as an irrigation tool?
What were the two assumptions that Greek philosophy was based on?
1. The universe is put together in an orderly way and governed by natural laws.
2. People can understand these laws by using logic and reason.
Who was appointed dictator for life but created jobs for the poor, increasing pay for soldiers, and starting colonies to give land to the poor, former soldeirs?
Who is Julius Ceasar?
What is feudalism?
What is a system of rights and obligations developed between lords, vassals, and serfs where the lords owned the land, the knights defended the land, and the serfs worked the land?