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Paleolithic and Neotlithic Periods
Middle East
China
Rome
Greece
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The period of time before written records were kept?
What is prehistory?
100
What was a key to developments in Mesopotamia?
What is Control of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
100
What natural feature isolated the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia?
What are the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain ranges
100
What government did the Romans establish?
What is a republic?
100
Who was the legendary warrior that fought in the Trojan War?
Who is Achilles?
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What is a term for a dry grassland?
What is a steppe?
200
How did Darius create economic links among the people of the Persian empire?
He set up a single coinage
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A rigid social group into which a Hindu person is born is called a what?
What is a caste?
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Who was the dictator after the first series of civil wars?
Who is Julius Caesar?
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What was the military state in Ancient Greece?
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Known for their discovery of ancient tools in the Olduvai Gorge in the 1930’s.
Who are Mary and Louis Leakey?
300
Where did Egyptian civilization develop?
What is river banks
300
What was one outstanding cultural achievement of the Gupta era?
What is development of the modern system of numerals
300
What was the new religion that was founded in the Roman empire?
What is Christianity?
300
Athens established governments that had what?
What are denocratic elements?
400
When did the first written records appear?
5000 years ago.
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For what did Egyptian engineers use geometry?
To calculate the size of stones for use in building pyramids
400
What was the Mandate of Heaven that Chinese rulers claimed?
What is the divine right to rule
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What city was named the new capital or “New Rome” ?
What is Constantinople.
400
Name one of the achievements of the Greek Empire
What is the Pythagorean Theorum, heliocentric universe, proved earth was round, doctor’s oath, plays, philosophy, logic.
500
Name the two first neolithic villages and their location
What are Catalhuyuk and Jericho in modern day Turkey
500
What did Israelite ethics stress?
What is personal morality and social justice
500
Under Legalism, the only way to achieve order was to do what?
What is Pass strict laws and use harsh punishment
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Name one of the four reasons why the Roman empire fell.
What is Military attacks, political turmoil, economic weakness, and social decay.
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Why did Greece win the Persian Wars even though they were extremely outnumbered?
What is unity