Test 1 Flashcards
Chinese salt begins with the mythical Huangdi, who invented ______, ______, and ______.
Writing, weaponry, transportation
______, the yellow emperor, invented writing, the bow and arrow, the cart, and ceramics.
Huangdi
______ simplified the Chinese language to 40,000 characters.
Mao
The governor of Shu (modern day Sichuan) was ______.
Li Bing
The ______ River provides a fertile green passage only a few miles wide down both banks.
Nile
The Egyptians mixed brine with vinegar and used it as a sauce known as ______.
Oxalme
The Egyptians believed that the goddess ______ taught them how to grow olives.
Isis
The Egyptians made salt by evaporating seawater in the ______ ______.
Nile Delta
The Egyptians were leading exporters of raw foods such as ______ and ______.
Wheat, Lentils
The Egyptians did not export great quantities of salt, but exported considerable amounts of ______ ______ to the Middle East.
Salted foods
Salzburg means ______ ______.
Salt town
Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language, but from ______.
Greek
The Celts used ______ for trade and conquest.
Rivers
I’m 390 BCE, the Celts sacked ______.
Rome
The Celts ruled Rome for ______ years.
40
Celts introduced ______ to northern Spain.
Wheat
The Romans paid homage to ______.
Democracy
The best pike had to be caught in the _____.
Tiber
Most Italian cities were found proximate to _____.
Saltworks
The Romans salted their ______, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word ______, salted.
Greens, salad
______ was the centerpiece of Roman cuisine.
Fish
______ came under the control of the Romans at the end of the Punic Wars.
Sicily
Garum is ___________.
Fermented fish sauce
When the Romans took over the Phoenician salt fish trade, they discovered how to make their ______ ______.
Purple dye
After the fall of Rome in the fifth century, ______ was often though of as just one of the unpleasant hedonistic excess for which Rome was remembered.
Garum
After the fall of Rome, ______ vanished from the Mediterranean, the region lost its importance as a salt fish producer, and the purple dye industry faded.
Garum
When Genoa made the island of ______ the largest salt producer in the Mediterranean, the Venetians made ______ into the second largest producer.
Ibiza, Cyprus
The ______ starts in the Italian Alps and flows straight across the peninsula, spreading into a marshy estuary from Ravenna to Venice.
Po
The ______ ______ is Italy’s only important dairy region.
Po Valley
______ in the twelfth century became an independent city-state dedicated to commerce.
Genoa
