Second Semester Review

The floods of the rivers in ancient times resulted in

• people lived in constant fear of the floods.

• people established a democracy to save themselves from flooding.

• fertile land for farming.

• no civilizations developing there.

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth

• Hammurabi's Code

• the Ten Commandments

• the Iliad

• Gilgamesh

Cause of the Peloponnesian Wars

• rebellions in Ionia

• wars in Egypt

• threat of invasion by Philip II

• rivalry between Sparta and Athens

Effect of the physical geography on Greece's government

• War broke out constantly.

• Never united to form a single government

• civilization never developed

• United into a larger unit

Who was eligible to a citizen in Athens?

• Any male of age

• Men and women

• Free men only

• Anyone could be a citizen

The policies of the Han Dynasty were based on

• Legalism.

• Buddhism.

• Daoism.

• Confucianism.

Chinese philosophy that believe men were selfish and tended to act immorally.

• Confuciansim

• Legalism

• Buddhism

• Daoism

Respect for your parents and all elders

• Yin and yang

• ancestor worship

• filial piety

• li

Where does the Chinese emperor derive his authority in the dynastic cycle?

• the assembly of elders

• the nobles

• the bureacracy

• the gods (heaven)

Group that made up the very lowest level of the caste system

• Untouchables

• Brahmins

• Kshatriyas

• Shudras