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This river is sacred to Hindus and helped support civilization in India.
What is the Ganges River?
This country is home to the Huang He, or Yellow River.
What is China?
This luxury product from China gave the routes their name.
What is silk?
This city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This religion began in India and was founded by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
This Chinese thinker taught that people should respect family and authority.
Who is Confucius?
Along with goods, traders also spread these things between civilizations.
What are religions, beliefs, ideas, technologies?
What is the agoge?
This animal is the largest mammal on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This emperor of the Mauryan Empire converted to Buddhism after seeing the horrors of war.
Who is Ashoka?
This massive structure was built to help protect China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This desert in western China was one dangerous obstacle along the Silk Routes.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
Before democracy, Athens was ruled by this tyrant known for his strict rules and harsh punishments, including the death penalty even for minor crimes.
Who is Draco?
This U.S. state is nicknamed the Sunshine State.
What is Florida?
This ancient civilization built carefully planned cities like Mohenjo-Daro.
Who are the Harappans?
This philosophy taught people to live in harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?
Traders often stopped in these desert cities along the Silk Routes to rest, exchange goods, and refill supplies. Although they were surrounded by desert, these towns had water.
What are oases?
These foreign-born residents of Athens, along with women and enslaved people, could never become full citizens.
Who were metics?
This element's chemical symbol is Au.
What is gold?
This social system divided people into groups based on birth.
What is the caste system?
This emperor ruled for only a brief period of time, but unified several warring kingdoms into one united China. The name "China" comes from his name.
Besides goods, ideas, beliefs, and technologies, this also spread along the Silk Routes. One famous one was the Black Death.
What is disease?
According to legend, Rome was founded by these two brothers.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
The longest river in the world is traditionally considered to be this river.
What is the Nile?