Famous Works
An epic Indian poem, written by Valmiki, that tells the story of a prince who is the avatar of the god Vishnu.
What is The Ramayana?
Austronesians used these beams that poked out from the side of a boat to help stabilize it in waves to sail to places such as Hawaii, Indonesia, the Philippines, and many other Pacific and Indian Ocean islands.
What is an Outrigger?
Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are three of the most important gods in this religion.
What is Hinduism?
Chess
Where is India?
An Empire in India in 320 CE, credited with inventing universities, chess, and the concept of zero.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The supposedly blind bard who created the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Assyrians learned to smelt this metal, around 1300 BCE, leaving the Bronze Age behind.
What is iron?
The goddess of discord who threw a golden apple to cause some trouble.
Who is Eris?
Aqueducts
Where is Rome?
This dynasty began in 206 BCE in China, and is credited with inventing paper, drawlooms, rudders, and magnetic compasses.
What is the Han dynasty?
Virgil's Aeneid tells the epic story of Aeneas' journey to found this empire.
What is Rome?
A sport invented in Mesoamerica, where players try to get a rubber ball through a hoop without using their hands or feet.
What is Poc-a-Toc?
A major religion founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
Papyrus
Where is Egypt?
The name historians gave to the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of Rome.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The Temple of the Inscriptions, where King Pacal was buried, included many inscriptions which helped scholars learn to read this Mesoamerican civilization's writing.
A famous Greek philosopher and mathematician who discovered a scientific principle explaining mass and buoyancy, and according to legend, may have invented a death-ray.
Who is Archimedes?
Chinese philosophy that teaches following the natural order of the world and finding balance.
What is Taoism?
Paper
Where is China?
Ashurbanipal was king of this Mesopotamian empire, credited with inventing the library, the mail system, and bureaucracy.
What is Assyria (the Assyrian Empire)?
The Hindu holy book.
What is the Veda?
A large multi-layered temple built in Mesopotamia as a home for a god; used for religious ceremonies.
What is a Ziggurat?
Means common in Latin, and was the most common type of Christianity in the late Roman Empire.
What is Catholicism?
Democracy
Where is Greece (Athens)?
During the period of Chinese history called the "Warring States Period", this kingdom eventually "won" and conquered and unified all of China in 221 BCE.
What is the Qin Dynasty?