Midyear review- World History - L2 (9th grade)

Blind Greek poet that wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad

When a government is being controlled by a few wealthy (less people than aristocracy)

When a government is being controlled directly by the people; Athens

The leader of Athens that brought it into the golden age

The war where the Greek city states teamed up in the Delian League to defeat Persia

The civil war of Greece mainly involving Sparta and Greece

The largest city state of Greece

The alliance Greek city states made to defeat Persia and help one another

The war of Greeks against Troy because of the wife of the Spartan king being kidnapped

The battle formation the Greeks used and the Romans adapted

The blend of cultures after Alexander the Great’s death

The Games Greeks competed in for glory

The marble building in Athens that worshipped the goddess Athena

A city state in Greece that focused heavily on its military

The 2 types of drama in ancient Greece

The first historian in the ancient world that wrote about the Persian war

The historian that wrote about the Peloponnesian war

The king of Macedonia that had Alexander the Great as his son

The Macedonian king that conquered Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India

Greek for city state

Fortified hilltop

Folklore that explained the unknowns of the world usually involving gods

The distance a soldier named Marathon ran to warn the Greeks about Persia

The original settlers of Rome

A form of government where the people have the power

The poor social class in Rome

The wealthy social class in ancient Rome

The largest classification of the Roman military, consisting of 5k soldiers

The wars between Rome and Carthage

The general of Carthage that tried to invade Rome

The place where laws could be proposed and decisions would be made by wealthy individuals. (the roman senate had 300 members), and the term was life

The golden age of Rome, the phrase meaning Roman Peace

The first form of written laws in Rome that protected mostly the lower class

The leader of the Huns that invaded Rome

The leaders of Rome during the Roman Republic, there were 2 of them and their term was 1 year

The place in Rome where information was exchanged

The dictator of Rome that eventually turned the Roman republic into the Roman Empire

The 3 people that got control over the empire during the civil war (Ceasar,Crassus,Pompey)

A relative of Julius Caesar that was the first emperor of Rome and brought the empire into its golden era

The act of goods getting more expensive due to more money being made

The Roman Emperor who made Christianity legal after winning a battle by painting the Christian cross on shields.

1. Complex institutions (Ex. govt)

2. Advanced technology (Ex. the wheel)

3. Recordkeeping

4. Advanced cities (Ex. having wall around city)

5. Specialized workers (Ex. Weaponsmith)

The people in a civilization that kept records and wrote down legends

To exchange goods for other goods (Ex. Cow for 10 chicken)

The rivers in Mesopotania

A ruling family that keeps power after each generation

An epic (poem) form Mesopotamia showing how Gilgamesh, the protagonist, goes on the hero’s journey

The first empire in Mesopotamia after the fall of the Sumerians

An ancient civilization located on the Nile river

A government controlled by religious figures such as priests

Crafted together plants near the Nile river called Payrus that would be used as a material something would be written on.

The rivers in China

Objects from the time period one is studying

The reasons Jared Diamond concluded as for why the white man was able to overtake the world

The system of social classes in India in which one would move by reincarnation

The beliefs, customs, and art of specific group of people

The road established by Persian king Darius I that reached from one end of the empire to the other end

The person who brought the Persian empire in to its golden age by tolerating the culture of the people he conquered and being kind to them

When a person choses something to master

The writing of Mesopotamia

The land (Persia) in which the soil was fertile, allowing civilizations to emerge with farming

The act of which culture gets included in another culture

The ruler of the Mesopotamia/Babylonian empire that created the first laws in the world know as “Hammurabi’s Code”

The river in ancient Egypt

The structures Egyptians built to make their kings have a good transition into the afterlife

The rivers in India

Animal bones thrown by Oracles into fire to tell the future

The reason a person who overthrew a dynasty used (they claimed that the old dynasty did something wrong to the gods and that they were going to right it)

Land ruled by a singular person

When a human would hunt and travel in order to survive

The people who create pottery and weapons

The region in the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates R where civilization started

An independent city/an area controlled independently by a city

The belief in multiple gods

The first laws, created by the Babylonian king Hammurabi (mesopotamia)

The kings of Egypt who were seen as gods by the people

The writing system ancient Egypt used to write in stone

The rise fall and replacement of dynasties

When farming was invented

The people that controlled local regions of Persia, put in place by the ruler

The founder of Judaism

The Jew who led the people out of Egypt and made a covenant with and created the 10 commandments

A Jew who proclaimed he was the messiah and was prosecuted for it. He gained a cult following and his religion spread throughout Rome

The first pope of Christianity

The mountains north of India; Including the Himalayas

The 3rd King in the Gupta empire who established new land by conquest

Pillars Asoka built with sandstone. They had an animal at the top (Ex. Lion), and were supposed to spread dharma (moral duties) throughout the kingdom

The god that symbolizes the caste system (Brahims; head, Arms; Kshatyras, Legs; Vaishyas, Feet; Shudras)

The people who are outside the caste system which usually had dirty jobs ( Ex. Butcher, Mortician)

The comsic, unchanging spirit of the universe

The innermost part of oneself; where all the thoughts are kept; your soul

The hindu belief of enlightenment

When one has another liftime after their death

All the good and bad things in one’s life compiled

The underlying cosmic law of the universe and human nature/Duties one has to do

The gods of Hinduism

The god of creation

The god that protects