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economy
Early civilizations
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Ancient Japan
100
traditional economy
What is an economy based on agricultural products and barter?
100
written language
What is the form of communication that developed first in Egypt and Sumer?
100
Sparta
What is the city-state focused on military training?
100
republic
What is the form of government that Ancient Rome had and that still influences us today?
100
Shintoism
What is the religion, practiced in Japan, that incorporates a belief in the spirits in nature?
200
A trade route
What is a travel pathway used by merchants over time, such as the Silk Road(s)?
200
The Neolithic Revolution
What do we call the period associated with the domestication of animals and the growing of crops?
200
Athens
What is the city-state focused on learning and culture?
200
Trade networks (helped by its location)
What made Rome wealthy?
200
Feudalism
What is the system that provided stability to Japan, and is a hierarchy with the Emperor at the top and peasants at the bottom?
300
The Columbian Exchange
What is the global transfer of food, plants, and animals between the Old World and the New World?
300
Code of Hammurabi
What is the group of laws from Mesopotamia that were based on the idea that harsh punishments would help society?
300
Alexander the Great
What is the name of the man who expanded Hellenistic culture?
300
The Mediterranean
What sea did Rome surround?
300
Bushido
What is the code of behavior for the warrior class (samurai)?
400
The Commercial Revolution
What is the introduction of banking, letters of credit and joint stock companies?
400
Mandate of Heaven
What is the divine decree that chose the next dynastic ruler in China?
400
The development of city-states.
What was the impact of mountains on the political formation of Ancient Greece?
400
The Byzantine Empire
What is the name of the eastern part of the Roman Empire (after the fall of Western Rome)?
400
Zen gardens, the tea ceremony...
What are two examples of Japanese culture?
500
A market economy
What is an economy based primarily on private ownership and supply and demand?
500
Indus, Yellow, Nile, and Tigris/Euphrates
What are the four early river valleys?
500
democracy
What is the form of government that originated in Ancient Greece and still influences us today?
500
Constantinople
What is the name of the capital of the Byzantine Empire that had a location which linked Asia and Europe?
500
archipelago
What is the name of the geographic feature that encompasses Japan?