River Valley Civilizations
Wrote one of the world's first law codes. Leader of Mesopotamia/Babylonia around 1750 BCE.
Who is Hammurabi?
The form of government invented in Ancient Athens and used in many countries today.
What is democracy?
The name for a period of time when the main body if Chinese were governed by one family or group.
What is a Dynasty?
Who is Rome named after?
Romulus
Belief in many gods
What is Polytheism?
Considered one of the first ancient civilizations. Developed around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
The two most famous Greek city states. They fought against each other in the Peloponnesian War.
What are Athens and Sparta?
Structure built by the Chinese to keep out northern invaders and show the strength and power of China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Why did Caesar get assassinated on the senate floor?
Because senators feared they were losing their power and Caesar was becoming too powerful
The philosophy of strict legal codes and harsh punishments
Legalism
This ancient civilization created the pyramids and were ruled by a pharaoh.
What is Egypt?
Which city state does this describe: the boys were trained to be great warriors. Education was focused on athletic skill.
Sparta
Connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
What is the Silk Road?
This was the group that revolted and protested outside the city to gain more influence in the Roman Republic
Plebeians
This was a play about a man who murdered his father and married his mother
Word meaning New Stone Age, when humans developed farming and domestication of animals.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Considered the father of Western Philosophy. One of his students was Plato.
Who is Socrates?
Long period of warfare between the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. Three Chinese philosophies were developed during this time.
What is the Warring States Period?
Aquaducts
Name of the General that crossed the Alps with elephants
Hannibal
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
This writer is considered the greatest Greek storyteller. He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This religion emphasizes inner peace, tranquility, and peace with nature. This is where the Yin and Yang symbol comes from
What is Taoism/Daoism?
What Emperor Split the Roman empire in two
Diocletian
Famous Greek writer, known as the father of history
Herodotus