Roman Civ
The origin of the Roman Empire.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
The world's first civilization and its regional rivers.
What is Sumer, and the Tigris and Euphrates?
The two spots where Chinese civilization developed.
What are The Yellow River in the north and the Yangzi River in the south?
Minoan's developed this writing systems.
What is Linear A?
Lowest class in the Caste System
Who are the untouchables?
Another name for "common people"
What is Plebeians?
Earliest form of writing
What is Cuneiform?
The four major dynasties of classical China.
What are the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties?
Practice of worshiping multiple gods
What is Polytheism?
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
The two highest annually elected members of Roman government.
Who are the consuls?
What is a monotheistic religion, with an ethical God
Chinese emperors believed their authority came from this source.
What is God?
The key difference between Athens and Spartan governments.
What are Athens was a democracy and Sparta was a military dictatorship?
Religious texts written in Sanskrit, provided the basis for hinduism.
What are Vedas?
Dr. Kanter's two main themes of Roman Civ.
What is the growing power of the common people and the expansion of Roman power?
Later Mesopotamian civilizations (Akkadians, Babylon) adopted these from Sumer.
What are Sumerian law (Code of Hammurabi), literature, religion, mathematics?
Animal or tortoise shells that contained early Chinese writing and were a form of fortune telling.
What are the oracle bones?
The cultural achievements of Greece's golden age.
What are Dramas, Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle), History, Medicine, Architecture, and Sculpture?
The high point of the Mauryan empire occured under his reign. His policies drew influence from Buddhism.
Who is Ashoka?
He and his brother died attempting to restore balance between the senate and assembly.
What are pictographs?
This social system helped the Zhou dynasty deal with the size of their empire.
What is Feudalism?
The only representation of Greece in the "dark age" (c. 1200 B.C.)
What is Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Two alternatives to Hinduism.