It's all Greek to Me
Greek city-states were also called this.
Poleis (or Polis).
The first and only female emperor of China, led the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zhao (or Wu Zetian).
The Choson, Silla, and Goryeo dynasties/periods all belonged to which major East Asian country?
Korea
A type of government where people vote on their leaders. Rome had one of these.
A Republic
Which city-state in Greece focused on building up a strong military?
Sparta
This military leader, born with the name Temujin, led one of the most powerful empires in the world. Historians and archaeologists still have no idea where he was buried.
Genghis Khan
The names of the wars fought between Muslims and Christians over the Holy City of Jerusalem. The majority of these resulted in Christian losses.
The Crusades
A type of government that has a king or a queen.
Monarchy
The Greek city-state considered to be the founder of democracy.
Athens
This man declared himself dictator for life in Rome, before he was stabbed to death by Roman Senators.
Julius Caesar
A nickname given to the bubonic plague, a deadly virus that wiped out nearly one-third of Europe's entire population.
The Black Death.
A part of land that's surrounded by water on 3 sides.
Peninsula
The name of the war between Athens and the Delian League and Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.
The Peloponnesian War.
This "great" Macedonian man took control of Greece and built one of the most powerful empires in history before he died, spanning Greece to Egypt. What was this man's name?
Alexander the Great.
This Chinese Dynasty was led by Kublai Khan and the Mongols.
The Yuan Dynasty
The period of time from 500-1500 C.E.
Middle Ages
What was the name of the first peoples in Greece, that were discovered on the island of Crete?
The Minoans
A king that was king of the Franks and built an empire as he tried to remake the Roman Empire. We learned about him recently.
Charlemagne
This man had a plague and code named after him. The laws believed in "Innocent Until Proven Guilty." He was the Byzantine Emperor from 527-565.
Justinian.
A system used predominantly in medieval Europe, where the king owned all the land, knights and nobles had to protect the king in order to get the land, and peasants worked on the land so they could be protected by the knights and lords.
Feudalism