Vocabulary
_________ is an important environmental factor in many civilizations and refers to elevation and the shape of the land.
What is topography?
Who is the Roman god of war?
A peninsula and islands that is shaped a lot like a boot and reaches into the Mediterranean Sea with the toe pointing towards Sicily.
What is the shape of Ancient Rome?
King Sargon.
Who was the first king of the Akkadian Empire?
Hammurabi was the first ruler to write down a ____ __ ____.
What is a code of laws?
The country is shaped somewhat like an outstretched hand, with fingers of land that reach into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the shape of Ancient Greece?
No one really knows, but it was probably a Latin tribe that built a village that eventually became this civilization.
How was Ancient Rome founded?
A ruler who expanded his empire whenever possible. He drove the Egyptians out of Syria and also conquered part of Canaan (present-day Israel), the home of the Israelites, or Jews. When the Israelites rebelled, he took most of them captive and brought them to the capital of his empire.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
India is a ___________ of Asia.
What is a subcontinent?
The arch and the cuniculus.
What were two important Etruscans structures that the Romans adapted?
Roads were unpaved and sharp rocks would often break wooden wheels. Not to mention wagons often got stuck in mud.
Why was travel in Greece difficult?
He taught his soldiers to fight in tight formations where soldiers would carry shields, stand at the front of the formation, while those carrying spears stood in the line behind. The spear-carriers would extend their weapons between the shields.
What were King Sargon's military tactics?
We often talk about ________ in the U.S., but some of the first ________ were the Greeks.
What are colonies and who is a colonists?
For cooking, to make soap, and fuels for lamps.
What did the Greeks use olive oil for?
They learned how to use concrete.
How was Rome able to build even larger structures than Greece?
An empire that was briefly established before Hammurabi conquered them. They were feared for their military might and cruelty.
Who were the Assyrians?
China is a large region which made governing and ___________ difficult. It doesn't help that China is also a land of extremes and _________.
What is communication?
What is contrasts?
Expanding on Greek tales of a long-ago conflict, the Trojan War and his poem, the Aeneid.
What is the Roman poet Virgil known for?
Asia minor, present-day Turkey, Spain, France, Italy, Africa, and along the coast of the Black Sea.
Where did Greece settle it's colonies?
Through the roads he built and the postal service he created.
How did Hammurabi connect Babylonians of all social statuses?