CIVILIZATIONS & GEOGRAPHY
This geographic feature provided water, fertile soil, transportation, and resources that helped early civilizations develop.
What is a river?
This Greek mathematician developed a theorem about right triangles that is still used today.
Who is Pythagoras?
In this type of democracy, citizens vote directly on laws and decisions.
What is direct democracy?
This social structure in ancient India is rooted in Hindu beliefs about Karma and Reincarnation.
What is the caste system?
A society in which people are ranked into different levels based on wealth, occupation, or status has this.
What is a social hierarchy?
This civilization used hieroglyphics, the only early writing using pictographs.
What is Egypt?
This Roman structure demonstrates the Romans' skill in engineering and was used to transport water.
What is an aqueduct?
In this type of democracy, citizens elect people to make decisions and create laws on their behalf.
What is representative democracy?
This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, who became known as the Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
In a social heirarchy, people in different social classes may have different amounts of these.
What are rights, power, and wealth?
Seafaring on the Medditerrain Sea helped connect different regions of the world through the exchange of goods. What is this called?
What is trade?
The Ming Dynasty strengthened the Great Wall to protect themselves from this group of people.
Who is the Mongols?
In ancient Athens, citizens participated directly in government by doing this.
What is voting on decisions/laws?
Trade routes helped religions spread because merchants and travelers carried not only goods, but also these.
What are ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices?
The development/advancement of this allowed early civilizations to produce more food than they immediately needed (surplus).
What is agriculture/farming?
These civilizations settled in the Fertile Crescent: Babylon, Sumer, and ______.
What is Assyria?
The Romans developed this system of government in which elected officials and different branches helped prevent one person from having too much power.
What is a Republic?
Roman citizens elected two of these officials to serve as the highest leaders of the Republic.
Who are consuls?
Ancient Greeks were polytheistic. Polytheistic means?
What is the belief in many gods?
Technology such as roads, aqueducts, and improved transportation allowed civilizations to do this more effectively across large territories.
What are communicate, travel, trade, and control territory?
Early civilizations often settled near rivers because rivers provided these three important resources: water, fertile soil, and this.
What is transportation?
This Roman structure was used for public entertainment and demonstrates how religion, entertainment, engineering, and government were all important parts of Roman society.
What is the Colosseum?
If you vote for a mayor, governor, or member of Congress to make decisions for you, you are participating in this type of democracy.
What is a representative democracy?
The spread of religions along trade routes is an example of this larger process in which cultures influence one another.
What is cultural diffusion?
As civilizations grew larger, they needed people to make and enforce rules. This led to the development of organized _____.
What is government?