(Latest Update 2025)
Exercise 12 -
The empire of Alexander was bordered on the south by the ________ Gulf and the ______ Sea -
Perisan Gulf and the arabia Sea
The Ptolemaic Kingdom was centered in the ancient Kingdom of _____ - Egypt
Ptolemaic- Seleucid rivalry was concentrated mainly in ____ and ____ - Ptolemies and Seleuads
The two large bodies of water to the north of Alexander's empire are the ___ Sea and the ____ sea -
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
The capital city of the ptolemaic kingdom was _____ - Alexandria
The capital of the Seleucid kingdom was - Babylon
Name several important states that emerged in Asia Minor to replace the antigonid kingdom -
Bithnyia, pergamon, and pontus
What city in egypt became on the most important cultural centers of the Hellenistic world -
Alexandria
What empire developed to the east of the Seleucid territories beyond the Indus following
Alexander's death - Seleucid empire
Exercise 9 -
The earliest civilization in middle america developed in what is now _____, ____, and ____ - Mexico,
Guatemala , and Honduras
, In South America the earliest center of civilization originated in the ____ Mountains in the modern
states of __, _____, and ____ - Andes Mountains
Peru, Chile, and Bolivia
Lake Titicaca, in what is now ____, was the site of the important city of ____ in the fourteenth
century BC - Peru
Tihuarano
The Olmec civilization in the middle america originated in the area of ____ and _____ - Mexico and
Guatemala
Describe the topographical features of the areas in which civilization began in South America -
Mountains, valleys, plains, woodlands, deserts
What terms would best describe the climate of area where the Olmec civilization began? - Hot and
humid low levels
What methods were developed to practice productive agriculture in the area of Yucatán, Guatemala,
and Belize in the maya terrritories - Slash and burn techniques, water control system and metallurgy
Exercise 13 -
China's initial move toward unity had its origin in Chang and zhou eras located in the basin of the
____ river in ___ China - Yellow River in. Central China
The epoch of the warring states was brought to a close by the growth of the ____ - Qin dynasty
The six states absorbed and unified by the Ch'in (Qin) were the __, ____, ___, ___, ___, and ___ -
Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi
Among these states the largest was the ___ - CHu
The Han empire extended from the ____ Ocean westward as far as the ______ Mountain Range -
Atlantic Ocean, Himalayan