Bodies of water
What is the arm of the Pacific Ocean that lies between China and Korea. It becomes the East China Sea south of the Korean Peninsula.
Yellow Sea
These mountains separate India from China and are the tallest in the world. forming the northern border of the Indian subcontinent.
Himalayas
Capital of China
Bejing
What empire attempted unsuccessfully to invade Greece?
Persian empire
Athens democratic reformer who outlawed slavery and canceled the farmers debt. He created four classes of citizenship based on wealth and a council of four hundred.
Solon
What is the sea south of the Yangtze river, east of the Mekong river, west of the Pacific ocean
South China sea
Highest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas
Mount Everest
A British colony in China, received after the first Opium War and returned to China in 1997
Hong Kong
By the late 400's all of Greece had been weakened during a bitter war between what two cities?
Athens and Sparta
He conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Alexander the Great
A Bay that the Ganges River flows into, North of the Indian Ocean, On the eastern side of India, South of Tibet, West of China
Bay of Bengal
A high area of land at the center of the Indian subcontinent.
Deccan Plateau
Largest city of the Indus Valley civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River. Little is known about the political institutions of Indus Valley communities, but the large-scale implies central planning.
Mohenjo-Daro
A narrow strip of water near Athens where the Greeks attacked the Persians was the home to which battle?
Established the world's first democracy in Athens "father of democracy"-all citizens had the right to participate in assembly
Cleisthenes
A river that flows from the Kunlun mountains to the Yellow sea. "river of sorrows" floods; very long. Also called the "yellow river".
Huang He River
One of the worlds largest deserts, covers part of China and present-day Mongolia.
Gobi Desert
Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation, and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
Harappa
Which Greek city-state defeated the Persian army in a major battle?
Athens in the Battle of Marathon
Athen leader that hired the poor to build public buildings and gave citizenship to non-landowners. Made reforms that went even further than Solon
Peisistratus
The world's third largest river, running from the Plateau of Tibet, through Eastern China to the East China Sea.
Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
A mountain range that is a barrier between India and Afghanistan. Is one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, but not as tall as the Himalayas.
Hindu Kush Mountains
capital city in both the Mauryan and Gupta empires
Patalipura
Led the Spartans in Thermopylae who stood bravely against a large Persian army of 300 Spartans.
King Leonidas of Sparta
Founder of the Persian Empire
King Cyrus
This body of Water separates Europe and Africa
Mediterranean Sea
China's largest desert
Taklamakan Desert
A democratic Greek polis who accomplished many cultural achievements, and who were constantly at war with Sparta.
Athens
famous 300 where Spartans help Persians so Athenians could defeat Persians
Thermoplaye
Under this ruler the Athenians enjoyed a golden age of prosperity and achievement
Pericles
A body of water by Mediterranean Sea that touches the borders of Greece & Asia Minor. It also has many islands in it, including Crete.
Aegean sea
These mountains are north of the Tibetan Plateau, northwest of China, and they cover much of Krygyzstan.
Tian Shan mountains
A powerful Greek miliary polis that was often at war with Athens. Used slaves known as helots to provide agricultural labor. Oligarchy
Sparta
War between Athens and Spartan Alliances. Ultimately, Sparta prevailed but both were weakened to be soon conquered by Macedonians, later leading to the Hellenistic Empire and Alexander the Great.
Peloponessian War
first ruler of the Mauryan Empire - unified India after Alex. the Great left
Chandra Gupta Maurya
A sea between Europe and Asia
Black Sea
A mountain range located north of the Plateau of Tibet
Kunlun Shan mountains
An ancient Minoan city on the island of Crete
Knossos
Why did Athens lose the Peloponnesian war?
Pericles put the city on lockdown and they relied on the navy bringing them supplies and Sparta made a blockade with its new navy.
First emperor of Gupta Empire, came from family not high class family, but had fortunate marriage, named self after Chandragupta Maurya.
Chandra Gupta
a long, narrow body of water between Europe and the present-day country of Turkey
Hellespont
fertile land covering much of northern India
Ganges Plain
An ancient city in central Greece, in Phocis: site of an oracle of Apollo
Delphi
Why was Sparta's deal with Persia so important in the war against Athens?
Sparta received enough Persian gold to build its own army
Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing. (p. 184)
Ashoka
A river in South Asia that flows from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea.
Indus River
Home of the Greek gods
Mount Olympus
The marketplace in Ancient Greece, open area outside the acropolis, a place where people could gather and debate issues
Agora
Which battle allowed the Greeks to defeat the Persians and free the city-states of Anatolia?
Battle of Platea
son of first Chandra Gupta became king in 335 A.D. expanded the empire with 40 years of war and conquest
Samudra Gupta
A river that flows east in the Himalayas and west into India, empties into the Bay of Bengal
Brahmaputra River
headquarters of the Delian League
Delos
a city-state in Ancient Greece
Polis
The aristocrats became more powerful and ignored the king. Kingdoms fought each other for over 200 years after the decline of the Zhou dynasty
Warring States Period
-First Ruler of the Xia Dynasty "Controller of the Waters" for successfully controlling the Yellow River's flooding, Founder of the Xia Dynasty
Yu the Great
A river of South Asia that flows southeast from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal.
Ganges river
Largest Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of Greece
Crete
Settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties with its homeland
colony
Mycenaeans invaded this civilization leading to its collapse.
Minoan
ruled China for more than 800 years-longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history
Zhou