| A | B |
|---|
| The 3 Punic Wars | battles between Rome & Carthage over control of trade in the area |
| Motivations for the Punic Wars | both sides wanted wealth, power, and to conquer other lands |
| Mandate of Heaven | how the Chinese justified the right to rule shifting from one dynasty to another |
| phalanx warfare | the fighting style of the Greeks in hand to hand combat adopted by the Romans |
| Who were the Phoenicians? | an ancient sea-trading civilization |
| How to dye cloth purple | the textile secret of the Phoenicians |
| Carthage | a Phoenician colony in north Africa led by Hannibal |
| economic interdependence | spread ideas and culture among ancient civilizations |
| Grapes and olives | crops grown on Greek islands |
| Factors that made the Persian empire's central government strong | regional leaders, a secret service and couriers to deliver messages |
| Persian conquests | Assyrians,Egyptians, and Babylonians |
| Rome | conquered Carthage and other areas expanding its political boundaries |
| Minoan civilization | earliest Greek civilization located on the island of Crete |
| Minoan culture | influenced later Greek civilizations |
| Mycenaeans | warlike civilization who conquered the Minoans |
| Phoenicians created | the world's first alphabet |
| Made money through trade | Phoenicians |
| Athenian goverment | influenced America's representative democracy |
| Roman and Greek assemblies | passed laws |
| United State government | influence by Greek and then Roman government structures |
