Early Civilizations
This river valley civilization is known for the Code of Hammurabi.
What is Mesopotamia?
This city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
Romans built these to supply cities with water.
What are aqueducts?
Gautama founded this religion.
What is Buddhism?
What system in medieval Europe organized society around land ownership, loyalty, and protection, involving kings, lords, and vassals?
→ What is feudalism?
This geographic feature allowed early civilizations to develop farming and permanent settlements.
What are rivers (or river valleys)?
This form of government allows citizens to vote directly on laws.
What is direct democracy?
Rome’s first written laws were called these.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This path teaches ethical living to end suffering.
What is Buddhism?
These workers were tied to the land they farmed, providing labor in exchange for protection from local lords.
→ Who are serfs?
In many early river valley civilizations, this type of government concentrated power in the hands of a king or ruling authority to create laws, collect taxes, and manage large public works.
What is a centralized government?
Sparta’s location on this peninsula limited outside contact and supported the development of an oligarchic, military-focused government.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
This emperor ended the civil wars and began the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace
Who is Augustus (Octavian)?
This monotheistic religion traces its roots to a figure who is considered the father of many nations and the first to enter into a covenant with God.
What is Judaism?
This system structured the medieval economy by linking peasants to the land they worked and requiring them to provide goods or services to the lord.
→ What is manorialism?
This invention from Mesopotamia helped improve transportation and trade.
What is the wheel?
This philosopher questioned everything to find truth.
Who is Socrates?
This general expanded Rome’s territory through conquest of Gaul.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This Chinese system of thought developed during a time of political chaos and teaches that society functions best when people respect hierarchy, fulfill their roles, and act with moral virtue rather than relying solely on laws or force.
What is Confucianism?
This 1215 document forced the English king to accept limits on his authority and laid the foundation for the idea that rulers must follow the law.
→ What is the Magna Carta?
Explain how geography influenced the economic development of one early river valley civilization.
What is how predictable flooding supported agriculture and trade.
Name 5 people from the Golden Age of Athens and include their achievement
Herodotus, Thucydides, SPA, Pericles, Phidias, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Sophocles, Aeschylus
Name 3 Roman Contributions in the following categories:
1. Architecture
2. Technology
3.Law/ Literature
Aqueducts. Arches, Domes, Colosseum, Pantheon, Forum, etc.
Aqueducts, Arches, Roads, Ptolemy
12 Tables, Innocent until proven guilty, Virgil Aeneid
Name the Five Pillars of Islam, the core duties required of all Muslims.
→ What are Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, and Pilgrimage?
Name three major effects of the Black Death on European society.
What are population decline, labor shortages, and weakening of feudalism (or increased wages and mobility of peasants)?