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Egypt & Sumer
Ancient China
Ancient Greece
Philosophers
Mesopotamian Vocabulary
100
The style of writing used by the Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
Shang Dynasty: too big, Zhou invade
What are reasons for decline?
100
Highly feared civilization that demanded toughness from birth.
Who are the Spartans?
100
Student of Socrates and did not support direct democracy.
Who is Plato?
100
The first five books of the Old Testament.
What is the Torah?
200
The belief of more than one god, supported by the Egyptians and Sumerians.
What is polytheism?
200
Goals to accept place in society, respecting your elders, and improving society.
What is Confucianism?
200
Central to Greek life, built around high acropolis
What is a polis?
200
Development of biology. Believed emotion is clouded judgement.
Who is Aristotle?
200
A region of rich and fertile farmland around the Mediterranean Sea
What is the fertile crescent?
300
Style of writing used by the Sumerians on tablets.
What is cuneiform?
300
Also known as Taoism, about balance and environment
What is Daoism?
300
God of the sea
Who is Poseidon?
300
Wrote theories rejecting the ideas of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Voltaire?
300
A ancestral "father" of Judaism.
What is a patriarch?
400
The Sumerians invented this to help with transportation, pottery, and building.
What is the wheel?
400
Dynasty that believed in the Mandate of heaven and dynasty cycles.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
400
God of home and Hearth
Who is Hestia?
400
Believed people can learn by asking questions. Put to death on trial.
Who is Socrates?
400
arid grassland
What are steppes?
500
The nickname for the rich soil that the Nile River gave the Egyptians.
What is "The Gift of the Nile"?
500
Shang Dynasty: strong writing system, bronze,money system, calendar, architectre
What are Shang dynasty achievements?
500
Civilization with a direct democracy built with three main bodies and was composed of free males over 20
Who is Athens?
500
Wrote passages during the Enlightenment about human understanding. Supported the scientific method.
Who is John Locke?
500
A binding agreement
What is a covenant?