Guns, Germs, and Steel
- what did the Papua new Guineans eat...Sago
- what was wrong with sago...it goes bad very quickly and it is not very nutritious
- What was Jared Diamond's theory on the advancement of civilization...geographic luck
- how many domesticated animals were there..14...none of these animals lived in Papua New Guinea
- First successful civilization...Mesopotamia
- What are the two main rivers...Tigris and Euphrates
- Where is it now...Middle East
- What was the difference between history and prehistory...things started to be written down in prehistory
- The Sumerians...wrote in cuneiform
- When you take dry land and water it...irrigation
- First written laws...laws of Hammurabi
- What was life surrounded on...the Nile River
- What was rare about the Nile..it flowed south to north
- What was the part of the Nile that had the richest soil...the Delta
- What were the king of Egypt known as..Pharaohs
- What were the Egyptian known for building... pyramids
- When were the most pyramids built...2500 BC (4,500 years ago)
- What did slaves do...served the wealthy
- Tarquin the Proud...tyrant
- What were some differences between Athens and Sparta...Athens had a navy: triremes and Sparta had an army on land
- Who made the decision to build 200 triremes...Themistocles
- What was the capital of Greece...Athens
- What was Athens famous for...the Parthenon
- Pericles ruled when the Parthenon was built
- What was the organization of city states who were in it to protect themselves... the Delian league
- Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey...Homer
- What was the Iliad about...the Trojan war
- What was the Odyssey about...a war hero who is trying to get home and running into all of these spectacular beings
- The people that predicted what was going to happen in the future...the Oracle
- The unexamined life is not worth living...Socrates
- Alexander the Great was 20 when he became king
- Who was Alexander's father...Philip II
- Philip II was 32 when he died
- Who was Alexander the Great's mother...Olympias
Middle Ages (125)
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