Prehistory
The development of ________ between 8000 and 5000 B.C. caused early people to give up their nomadic lives and settle in villages.
Agriculture
What was the most powerful state in the ancient Near East?
Egypt
The Greek coastline encouraged _______.
Seafaring
Alexander the Mediocre launched an unsuccessful invasion of this country.
India
Rome began with this system of government.
Monarchy
This discovery led to the period known as the Bronze Age.
Metal
Kush was a major _______ empire.
Trading
What was the Delian League?
A defensive alliance created by Athens
Indian contributions to ______ and ____ shaped the way we view those fields today.
Science and Math
The early structure of the Roman Republic included these two social classes.
Patricians and Plebians
What was made possible by an abundance of food?
Cities
Amenhotep III attempted to uproot Egypt's _______ system.
Religious
What was the first Greek city state?
Mycenae
These contained religious chants and stories.
Vedas
Who was overthrown in 509 B.C. to create Rome?
Etruscans
Early civilizations were governed by monarchies and _________.
Theocracies
This caused the decline of Kush.
Axum
Who created a direct democracy in Athens?
Pericles
________ served as an impetus for the construction of functional and symbolic religious architecture across India.
Buddhism
The Pax Romana was caused by these.
Five good emperors
Name all six basic characteristics of civilizations.
Cities, governments, religion, social structure, writing, and art.
Who reunited Egypt by pushing out the Hyksos?
Ahmose I
During the Greek Dark Age, Greeks colonized the ______ Islands and ______.
Aegean Islands and Ionia.
The __________ and the _________ are the great epics of India.
Mahabharata And Ramayana
What was the publically displayed law code of the Republic?
Law of the 12 Tables