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Ancient Middle East & Egypt
Ancient India & China
Ancient Greece
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Middle Ages
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keep the gods and goddesses happy
What was the purpose of Sumerian ziggurats?
100
Monsoons
What are regular, seasonal winds & rain that blow across the Indian subcontinent each year in the summer?
100
Polis
What is a city-state?
100
patricians
What are members of the landholding upper class in the early Roman republic?
100
provide military service
What is part of a vassal's obligation under his feudal contract?
200
developed a number system
Who are the Sumerians?
200
Mandate of Heaven
What is the reason Ancient Chinese dynasties like the Zhou Dynasty claimed it ruled China?
200
oligarchy
What is rule by the few?
200
Carthaginians
Who are the people whom Rome defeated in the Punic Wars?
200
receive the sacraments
What is something medieval Christians believed they must do to achieve salvation?
300
first time a state's laws were set down in writing
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
dharma
What is the term that refers to a Hindu's religious & moral duties as an individual?
300
A Greek force of 7,000 held off the Persian army of 180,000 for two days
What is the battle of Thermopylae?
300
divided the empire into two parts
What did the Roman emperor Diocletian do to restore order to the empire?
300
legumes
What crop restored fertility to the soil in the three-field system of rotating crops?
400
Darius improved economic life in the Persian empire by
What is encouraging the development of a money economy?
400
philosophy concerned with living in harmony with nature
What is a concern of the philosophy of Daoism?
400
republic
What is a government in which officials are chosen by the people?
400
to escape invading Huns
What is the reason large numbers of Germanic peoples crossed into the lands of the Roman empire in the late 300s?
400
obedience, poverty & chastity
What was the vow required of Benedictine monks?
500
building the Great Pyramids
What is a major accomplishment of Egypt's Old Kingdom?
500
built to discourage invasion from the north
Why did Shi Huangdi order the construction of the Great Wall?
500
Mycenaeans....war
Which Greek-speaking people started the Trojan War?
500
Edict of Milan
What important change did the Roman emperor Constantine make in 313 which granted religious toleration to the Christians?
500
papal supremacy
What is the authority that medieval popes claimed over all other rulers?