Unit 1A
What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What is the tallest pyramid that the Egyptians built at 481 feet tall?
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Which Mesoamerican civilization was known for living near rubber trees?
Who are the Olmec?
What geographical features caused rivalries in Greece?
What are mountains?
What theory for the fall of the Roman Empire revolves around lead pipes causing a mental decline in the population?
What is the Crazy Baby Theory?
What are the first five books of the Old Testament called?
What is the Torah?
What is it called when an individual soul or spirit is born again and again until moksha is achieved?
What is reincarnation?
Which Persian ruler expressed kindness to the peoples he conquered?
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Which city-states were rival city-states?
What are Athens and Sparta?
What is the name of the peace and prosperity that lasted for almost 200 years in Ancient Rome?
What is Pax Romana?
What is it called in Ancient China when a just ruler had divine approval to rule?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What are the good or bad deed that follow from one reincarnation to another?
What is karma?
Which dynasty ruled China for more than 400 years?
Who are the Han?
What is a Greek tragedy?
What are set of three plays presented in a trilogy built around a common theme?
31 BCE-14 AD is called the age of what?
What is the Age of Augustus?
What two rivers provided fertile soil in Indus River Valley Civilizations?
What are the Indus and Ganges?
What religion is a collection of religious beliefs that developed slowly over a long period of time?
What is Hinduism?
What system stressed punishment more than rewards?
What is Legalism?
What are the Olympics? List all 3 things.
What are held between the city-states, held every 4 years, and a special truce held to prevent violence?
Why did the Romans persecute Christians?
What is saw them as a threat to public order?
What empires would later conquer the Jews?
Who are the Persians, Greeks, and Romans?
What are the two majors rivers in Ancient China?
What is the Yangtze and Yellow River?
What does Samurai mean?
What is "those who serve?"
What did Alexander the Great do? List all 3
What is build Alexandria, defeat Persia, and built an empire that went to modern day Pakistan?
Who was Julius Caesar? List all 3 things
Who a Roman general who become dictator in 45 BCE and was assassinated by a group of senators?