Vocab 1
What is loess?
A period of civil war that took place between the reign of the Zhou and the Qin.
What is the Warring States Period?
This large body of water is known as the birthplace of western civilization.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What river was Rome built next too.
What is the Tiber River?
Means beautiful writing.
What is calligraphy?
What is Confucianism and Daoism?
This main rival of the Greeks laid in the west.
Who was Persia?
Legend states that these twin brothers founded the city of Rome. One of the brothers killed the other to become the sole ruler of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Means Greek influenced.
What is Hellenistic/Hellenism?
These are the name of the Huang and Chang Rivers today.
What is the Yellow River and Yangtze River?
The three Greek philosophers whose works influence many teachings still today.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
What is the Punic Wars?
An enlarged pike created by King Philip II.
What is a sarissa?
What is Ruler/subject, Father/Wife, Father/Child, Friend/Friend, and Older sibling/Younger sibling?
This Greek family ruled in Egypt for over 300 years. One of their ancestors was Queen Cleopatra.
Who were the Ptolemy family?
A system of rules by which a government is organized.
What is a constitution?
This ancient philosopher is well known for his thoughts on the nature and spiritual worlds and how that shapes the reality for people.
Who is Confucius?
What is the Iliad and the Odyssey?