Asia
These were made up of the Tigris-Euphartes, Indus and Huang He
What are Asia's three fertile river valleys?
India was known for this strict social structure
What is the caste system?
China's longest ruling dynasty
What is Chou?
This important African city became an Egyptian center of life and one of the greatest cities in the Arab world
What is Cairo?
This important African trading center became famous for learning and culture
What is Timbuktu?
Shinto is the oldest surviving religion of this country
What is Japan?
This ruler built the Maurya empire
Who is Asoka?
He started the largest continental empire in history
Who is Genghis Khan?
He united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation
Who is Menes?
This kingdom built the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior
What is Cush?
This is Japan's highest mountain
What is Mount Fuji?
Ancient India made its greatest contributions to civilization in this realm
What is mathematics?
China is the country known to have first made this product used to write on
What is paper?
The most important Egyptian work of literature
What is the Book of the Dead?
These missionaries were shipwrecked and taken to Ethiopia as slaves
Who are Edesius and Frumentius?
This ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization
Who is Prince Shotoku?
This dynasty inaugurated India's "golden age"
Who are the Guptas?
This highway linked China to the Roman world
What is the Great Silk Road?
This river is the longest in the world
What is the Nile?
This is Africa's largest lake
What is Lake Victoria?
This term was given to the warriors, or knights, of feudal Japan
What is samurai?
This false religion, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, tries to reach a state of "nirvana"
What is Buddhism?
He was the first emperor of a united China
Who is Shih Huang Ti?
This Frenchman was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone
Who is Champollion?
This is Africa's highest mountain
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The name given to the emperor of Japan
What is Mikado?
This beautiful building was built as a tomb for a Mogul ruler's wife
What is the Taj Mahal?
This was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher Lao-tse
What is Taoism?
This best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society
What is the pyramid?
This is Africa's longest lake
What is Lake Tanganyika?
These Southeaster Asian countries give some measure of freedom to their people
What are Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines?
These two territories seceded from India to become independent states
What are Pakistan and Bangladesh?
He spent 20 years in the service of Kublai Khan
Who is Marco Polo?
This Egyptian female pharaoh ruled jointly with her nephew
Who is Hatshepsut?
This is Africa's largest desert
What is the Sahara Desert?
He established the Mogul Empire in India
Who is Babar?
This is an ancient name for China
What is Chung-kuo?
This great pharaoh's pyramid is the largest
Who is Cheops?
This is the largest rift in the earth's surface
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This is an Indian belief in reincarnation
What is Hinduism?
This is the world's oldest living civilization
What is China?
He was an Egyptian teenage pharoah
Who is Tutankhamen?
He wrote the oldest surviving hymn
Who is Clement?
He was the Greek "Father of History"
Who is Herodotus?
Great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa
Who is Mansa Musa?
This helped solve the riddle of Egyptian writing
What is the Rosetta Stone?
He was remembered for carrying Jesus' cross
Who is Simon of Cyrene?
Alexander's general who was given Egypt to rule
Who is Ptolemy?
They ended the Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Who are the Hyksos?
This is one of the ancient names for Egypt
What is Mizraim?