Ancient China
This ruler unified China and sponsored building programs for roads and canals
Who is Shi Huangdi
These are known as a polis
What is a city-state?
This word means Greek-like.
What is Hellenistic?
This Trojan War hero was a founding member of Roman society.
Who Aeneas?
Legal system based on a written code of laws.
What is Civil law?
This person was the most influential teacher of Chinese history.
Who is Confucius?
A government in which only a few people have power.
What is an oligarchy?
This Persian leader allowed the people he conquered to keep their own customs.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The Roman names for common people and noble people.
What are plebeians and patricians?
These 12 men are responsible for the original spread of Christianity.
Who are the Apostles?
This hard gemstone often decorated the tombs of the rich.
What is jade?
Elected leader of Athens who encouraged people participation in a democratic government.
Who is Pericles?
This Persian leader tried to conquer Greece and failed.
Who is Xerxes I?
A public meeting place in Rome.
What is a forum?
These two leaders worked together in an attempt to reunite and create an New Eastern Roman Empire.
Who were Justinian and Theodora?
Shi Huangdi used this to protect the country from invasion from Northern Nomads.
What is the Great Wall?
A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.
What is mythology?
Who fought against whom in the Peloponesian War?
What is Sparta vs. Athens (Delian League vs. Peloponnesian League)?
This Roman general encouraged poor people to join his army and gained great power by doing so.
Who is Gaius Marius?
The New Roman Eastern Empire was called this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
What measures the strength of an earthquake?
A famous woman poet of ancient Greece.
Who is Sappho?
These are three important Greek philosophers.
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
This powerful consul eventually became a dictator of Rome.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This emperor removed bans on the Christian religion and eventually named it Rome's official religion.
Who is Constantine?