Quarter 1 Study Guide Flashcards
How was Zoroastrianism different than other religions of this time?
Monotheistic
What did the Romans use if an aqueduct was more than 6.5 feet high?
Arches
Who turned Athens into a naval empire?
Pericles
Which era came first?
Paleolithic Era
How many people could the Coliseum hold?
50,000
In the “case of the barber”, who did the Romans blame?
The slave
What was the end result of the Peloponnesian War?
The end of Greece’s Golden Age
What was NOT an aspect of early cultures in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, the Yellow River Valley, and Mesoamerica?
Religion based on human sacrifices to gods
Why did Alexander stop his invasion into India?
Army was tired and wanted to go home
What emperor participated in the gladiator games and was going to be crowned Consul?
Commodus
What two bodies of water did Darius’s great canal connect?
Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
Ziggurats were massive structures built by the Sumerians for what purpose?
Religion
Who was the earliest known King of the Akkadians (and the first recognizable person in history)?
Sargon I
Who said, “ I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in Marble.”?
Augustus
Who ended the Roman Republic?
Caesar
Why was the philosopher Seneca opposed to the gladiator fights?
It was boring
Nicolaus of Damascus wrote an account of Caesar’s death, which of the following is true?
He was not present during the assassination
What side won the Peloponnesian war?
Sparta
Which battle saw a handful of Spartans and Thessalonians stall an enormous Persian Army?
Thermopylae
Who wrote the story of Aeneas?
Virgil
Pliny described the explosion of Mount Vesuvius as looking like a what?
Pine Tree
How does Sparta ultimately defeat Athens?
A plague hits Athens
What does the word “Cuneiform” mean in Latin?
Wedge-shaped
Which was not an achievement of the Olmecs in Mesoamerica?
Bronze Weapon
How were Cicero’s writings similar to Confucius?
About relationships with government and citizens
What was not an original event of the Ancient Olympics?
Archery
The Khyber Pass allowed for easier access to what river basin?
Indus River
Where did the Greeks get their alphabet from?
Phoenicians
What were the two main crops in Rome?
Grapes and Olives
How long was a Roman soldier’s enlistment for?
25 years
What was not a Sumerian first?
Iron
The games at the Coliseum were divided into 3 presentations, which came first?
Slaughter of wild animals
Which Roman Scholar tried to hold together the principals of Republic as they fell into civil war?
Marcus Cicero
What great change occurred during the Neolithic Revolution?
Agriculture
Caesar had to build a bridge across the Rhine River, how long did it take him?
10 Days
What king united the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt?
King Menes
Who said, “every disease had a natural cause.”?
Galen
Which emperor ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire?
Constantine
What happened to Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia?
Sacrificed by Agamemnon
Why did it take so long for people to find ancient Troy and Mycenae?
Sea levels are different today
Who was a Roman writer that detail the lives of notable Romans?
Plutarch
What did Xerxes do to Athens after he conquered it?
Burned it down
Why didn’t the early Chinese of the Yellow River build large monuments?
Lack of quality building materials
What people were from north of India (central asia) and migrated to the Indus Valley, where they settled and later created the Vedas?
Aryans
Who was the escaped slave that led a widespread slave revolt?
Spartacus
What was the naval battle in which the vastly outnumbered Greeks defeated the Persians?
Salamis
The following statement would be true for which era? “Most human societies consisted of small groups of hunters and gatherers.”
Paleolithic
Who is generally considered the last great Pharaoh that probably knew Moses?
Ramses II
Where did the royal road connect?
Indian border to the Mediterranean Sea
In the Zhou Dynasty, the Mandate of Heaven meant that rulers could what?
Stay in power if they ruled wisely
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the early civilizations?
Travel (roads)
What did Heinrich Schliemann supposedly find?
Troy
What age comes after the Stone Age?
Bronze Age
Which of the following conveniences did Harappa NOT have?
Laundry Mats
Why were only the wealthy able to be senators?
The job didn’t pay
According to BC battles, how did the sea part for Moses?
A tidal anomaly
What was a Metic?
an Athenian born outside of Athens
The Delian League was under the leadership of what city-state?
Athens
Who was suspect 1 for starting the fire that burned down most of Rome?
Nero
Who do we call the father of geometry?
Euclid
Why was Julius Caesar murdered?
He ended the Roman Republic
What civilization were sea-faring people that had a trade network that spread all across the Mediterranean Sea.
Phoenicians
Who was the “first citizen”
Octavian (Augustus)
Father of Western philosophy?
Socrates
Who were the helots?
Slaves in Sparta
What direction does the Nile River flow?
South to North
What 9,000 year old Turkish town remains were recently found?
Catal Huyuk
What battle assured the defeat of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great?
Gaugamela
What job did most Romans have?
Farming
Who killed Achilles?
Prince Paris
What class of Roman citizens were freemen but could not own property or run the government?
Plebian
What was the most common building material used in Rome?
Concrete
Who was the first king to have a written law code?
Hammurabi
What kind of government did Athens have?
Direct Democracy
Modern homo-sapiens can trace their ancestry to what part of the world?
East Africa
Who did the Romans battle in the 3 punic wars?
Carthage
Approximately, how many years ago did humans tame fire?
750,000 years ago
What does Pax Romana mean?
A Roman peace
What culture preceded the Ancient Greeks on the peninsula?
Mycenae
What happened to the culture of the Mycenaeans?
Invaded by Indo-Europeans
Who was the great conqueror that emerged around 550 BC in the Middle East?
Cyrus the Great
The Greeks assisted the Ionians during their revolt. Who were the Ionians revolting against?
Persians
The Fertile Crescent goes from the Persian Gulf to what other body of water?
Mediterranian Sea
What was Bucephalus known for?
Wild and untamable
What 2 modern day countries are located where the Ancient Indus Civilization was once located?
India and Pakistan
“Egypt is the gift of the Nile.” - Herodotus, Greek Historian. What did he mean by that?
Nile supports the civilization of Egypt
