Unit 1
What is the time in history before writing was developed 5,000 years ago?
What is prehistory?
Who is the founder of Buddhism?
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
Who was the first to have coins of a standard value circulate throughout an extended empire?
Who are the Persians?
What is a polis?
What is a city-state?
What is it when the leader is not a monarch and some citizens have the right to vote?
What is a republic?
What invention helped hunter gatherers survive the Ice Age?
What is fire?
What is a state of perfect understanding of all things?
What is moksha?
Head of noble Japanese families were called what?
Who are Daimyo?
What were the first great epic poems?
What is the Iliad and the Odyssey?
What is a government by 3 people with equal power is called a what?
What is a triumvirate?
Hunter gatherers depended on what two things to survive?
What is hunting animals and gathering plants?
What is the pursuit of one’s calling that is necessary to maintain order?
What is dharma?
Which civilization built pyramids, temples, and an accurate calendar?
Who are the Maya?
How would the Great Peloponnesian War weaken Ancient Greece?
What is growing power of Macedonia ignored?
Who were the two main groups in the Roman Republic structure?
Who are the Patricians and the Plebians?
What is a large political unit or state usually under a single leader?
What is an empire?
What is the emphasis on right conduct and the worship of one God?
What is ethical monotheism?
What system wanted to restore the order and morality of the past and served as an ethical system rather than religions system?
What is Confucianism?
Who wrote the first real history book in Western civilization?
Who is Herodotus?
Who wanted to give public land from the wealthy to the poor?
Who are the Gracchi Brothers?
What is a political system we discussed in class in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king?
What is feudalism?
What is nirvana? Not the band
What is release from selfishness and pain ?
Which civilization was founded by Arabs and converted to Christianity?
Who are the Axum?
What is Hellenism?
What is spreading Greek ideas to the non-Greek world?
What is the date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
What is 476 AD?