Before Common Era
This characteristic of civilization directs and controls some actions of the citizens in the civilization.
What is government?
The Greek 5 day sporting event & religious ceremony where athletes from the city states competed in various sports.
What is the Olympics?
The tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
Too large of an empire, plagues, in fighting in Rome and wars with the Persians, Germans and Mongols led to this.
What is the decline of Rome?
The term used to describe the exchange of goods between the New & Old Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first 4 civilizations, Mesopotamia, Huang He, Egypt and Indus Valley grew around this landform.
What is a river?
A type of government where the people directly vote on proposing laws, passing laws and electing government officials.
What is a direct democracy?
This branch of mathematics studies the sizes, shapes, positions, and dimensions of objects in space.
What is geometry?
The founder and main prophet of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Spreading this religion was a main goal of many European countries during the Age of Exploration
What is Catholicism/Catholic Church/Roman Catholic?
The first discovered written code of laws from Mesopotamia was written by this Babylonian king.
Who was Hammurabi?
The second government style in Rome practiced from 510 BCE - 23 BCE.
What is the Roman Republic?
The 16th president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The absolute lowest class in feudal society who were bound to a lord for life.
Who are serfs?
This large land based Asian empire had superior horsemanship and let conquered people keep their cultures.
What/Who were the Mongol Empire?
The first major monotheistic religion in world history.
What is Judaism?
This man attempted to take over the Roman Republic & establish it as a dictatorship.
Who was Julius Caesar?
DAILY DOUBLE! Wager from 1 to your total points. If you get it right you will earn those points, if you get it wrong you lose those points!
The year Riverton High School had graduating seniors who were sophomores the first year the school opened.
When was 2002?
The major land based trade route that connected Italy and China.
What is the silk road?
The term to describe the period of time a Chinese ruling family held the ruling power of China.
What is a dynasty?
This Greek philosopher focused on psychology and politics. He believed justice bonded humans together in society through harmonious strength.
Who was Plato?
A monotheistic religion that Rome saw as a threat to their empire's power.
What is Christianity?
This very valuable mineral is graded a 10 on the Mohs Scale.
What is a diamond?
The extremely deadly disease that was the cause of the "Black Death" pandemic in the mid 1300s.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
The period of classical cultural, artistic, and philosophical rebirth in Europe spanning from the 14th to the 17th century
What/When was the Renaissance?