Mesopotamia & Egypt
India
Rule of Law
China
Empire Builders
100
The name of the river valley in which Ancient Egypt settled near.
What is the Nile river?
100
The name of the river where Ancient Indian Civilizations settled and bears the subcontinents namesake.
What is the Indus River?
100
Both the legal and moral code for the Hebrew people.
What are the 10 Commandments?
100
The longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history.
What is the Zhou?
100
This emperor is the first recorded emperor in history.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
200
The name of the rivers in which Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations settled between.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
These two urban centers characterize Ancient Indian civilizations with advanced city planning. Additionally they developed indoor plumbing with advanced irrigation.
What is Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa?
200
The first set of law codes written in stone and spread through the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
The justification of Chinese emperors right to rule the empire came from a divine source.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
The name of Mauryan emperor and first to unite India.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
300
The form of writing and record keeping in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
300
This empire ruled the Golden Age of Ancient India. Founded by Chandra Gupta the empire expanded wealth, knowledge and culture.
What is the Gupta Empire?
300
The actions in which Buddhist live in order to achieve enlightenment by.
What is the Eightfold Path?
300
The first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief. Founded by Shi Huangdi
What is the Qin Dynasty?
300
Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire He is remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states and standardization.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
400
This official serves as both the supreme political and religious leader of Egypt officially making the Egyptian government a theocracy.
What is the Pharaoh?
400
A set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society. It is intertwined with Hinduism in India.
What is the Caste-System?
400
The rule/tradition that emerged in Ancient China in which children served the needs of their parents.
What is filial piety?
400
A practice of the Han Dynasty of hiring government workers on the basis of open, competitive examinations and merit.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
400
The founder and ruler of the Gupta Empire, led to the golden age of India.
Who is Chandra Gupta?
500
A type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively rece/GettyImages-84500182-9d1e12323e0a42dab286dfead4cc31a8.jpg)
ding storeys or levels.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The second religion of India founded by Siddhartha Gautama who encouraged disciples to seek an end to suffering by following the eightfold path to enlightenment.
What is Buddhism?
500
The rule where you must "Do to others as you would want done to you." - Confucius
What is the Golden Rule?
500
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by this Chinese philosopher and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
What is Confucianism?
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Who is Confucius?
500
The grandson on Chandragupta Maurya who took Mauryan dynasty to its heights before converting to Buddhism and preaching nonviolence throughout the empire.
Who is Ashoka the Great?