Mesopotamia
A pyramid-shaped temple tower.
What is a ziggurat?
Rulers of Egypt.
What are pharaohs?
A wind pattern that influences the climate and leads to wet and dry seasons.
What are monsoons?
A wall built along the northern border to help defend China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
These people lived mostly on mainland Greece and were the first people to speak the Greek language.
Who were the Mycenaeans?
famous collection of 282 written laws that governed Babylonian society
What was Hammurabi's Code?
A stone tomb with triangle-shaped sides that come together to form a point on top.
What is a pyramid?
This crop is still exported from India today.
What is cotton?
A group of trade routes that connected China to other parts of Asia and the west.
What is the Silk Road?
A government that gives people the power to rule themselves.
What is democracy?
Both Mesopotamia and Egypt are located in this region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A body preserved in a way to prevent it from decomposing.
What is a mummy?
A prince who discovered enlightenment and became known as the Buddha or the "Enlightened One".
Important philosopher and teacher in Chinese history.
Period of Roman peace.
What is Pax Romana?
World's first writing system.
What is cuneiform?
Egyptian writing system that used symbols for words or ideas.
What is hieroglyphics?
These animals are sacred.
The idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Rome vs. Carthage
What were the Punic Wars?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Female pharaoh whose reign was a period of great prosperity and general peace.
Who was Hatshepsut?
Brahmins are known as these:
What are priests and teachers?
A Confucian virtue that involves showing respect, care, and obedience to one's parents and elderly family members.
What is Filial Piety?
This emperor of Rome expanded the territory, focused on public works and led Rome into period of peace.
Who was Octavius Augustus Caesar?