Geography
China
Greece
Rome
7th Grade Preview
100
These are the largest landmass on earth: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
What are the continents?
100
The most important luxury item made in ancient China, the making of it was a national secret.
What is silk?
100
Hera, Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes, Ares, Dionysus
Who are the Olympian gods?
100
The mythical founders of Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
100
The first president of the U.S.
Who is George Washington?
200
These are the largest bodies of water on earth: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, Arctic
What are the oceans?
200
The two main rivers in China where the earliest civilizations developed.
What are the Yellow River and Yangtze River?
200
The most important sea to the ancient Greeks.
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
The religion that began as illegal in Rome before it became the only legal religion 
What is Christianity?
200
The war between Great Britain and American colonies
What is the Revolutionary War?
300
A large naturally occuring community of plants, animals, and nonliving things: ex. Tundra, taiga, desert, rainforests
What are biomes?
300
The belief that the gods approved or disapproved of the emperor of China's actions; signaled the end of one dynasty and the beginning of another.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
Rival cities that were the most important cities in ancient Greece.
What are Athens and Sparta?
300
The man responsible for the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
The first British colony established in North America
What is Jamestown? 
400
Half of a spherical shape; divides the globe into half
What are the hemispheres?
400
The civilization that invaded China and made it part of the largest ancient empire on earth, originated in the region today known as Mongolia.
Who are the Mongols?
400
Wars between the Greek city-states and Persia
What are the Persian Wars?
400
Economic problems and corruption in the government
What are the internal causes of the fall of Rome?
400
The belief that American (white/Christian) settlers should move westward all through North America.
What is manifest destiny? 
500
Tools such as globes, maps, GPS, aerial photography
What are the tools of geography?
500
Known for being the only empress of China and rumored to have had her rival's child murdered.
Who is Wu Zhao? 
500
Macedonian king who conquered all of Greece, Egypt, and Persia. He named many cities after himself.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
The Vandals, the Goths, the Huns, the Visigoths
What are the external causes for the fall of Rome?
500
The group of German soldiers who fought with the British against the American Continental Revolutionary Army.
Who are the Hessians?