Sol 1 Flashcards
Athens vs. Sparta
Peloponnesian war
Rome vs. Carthage
Punic
Muslims Vs. Christians
Crusades
England vs. France
100 years war
Battle that stopped Muslims advance into Europe
Battle of tours
Civilization that created the 1st alphabet
Phaenicians
Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics
Mesopotamian writing system, oldest in the world
Cuneiform
Ancient writing system in India
Sanskrit
Language of the Romans
Latin
Alphabet used in Russia
Cryllic
Old Stone Age
Paleolithic
New Stone Age
Neolithic
Revolution characterizing the beginning of agriculture
Neolithic
Period of prosperity under Pericles in Athens
Golden age
2 hundred year period of peace and prosperity in Rome
Pax Romana
India under the Gupta empire
Golden age
The concept of a period of intellectual darkness that occurred in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire
Dark ages
The era in the European history lasting from 1300-1600 renewed interest in classical culture
Middle Ages
Period of European history lasting from 1300-1600 led to renewed interest in classical culture
Renaissance
Hangin gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
3 monotheistic religions
Abraham
Printing press
Gutenberg
Hammanism
Petrarch
Medicine
Hippocrates
Tragedy
Aeschylus
History
Herodotus
River in china
Huang he
River in India
Indus and Ganges
River in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
River in Egypt
Nile
Capital of Byzantine empire
Constantinople
City-state in Northern Africa who went to war with Rome
Carthage
Mountain range in South America incas lived there
Andes
Mountain range north of Italy
Alps
Important city of the incas
Machu Picchu
Important city of the Aztecs
Technotitlan
Important city of the Mayans
Chicken Itza
Sea in Eastern Europe important for trade of amber
Baltic
Sea above Constantinople important for trade to Russia
Black
Sea in the middle of 3 continents
Mediterranean
Temple worshipping the goddess Athena of Athens
Parthenon
Temple worshipping gods and goddesses located in Rome
Pathenon
Greeks vs. Persians
Persian war