Ancient Egypt
A written language based on pictographs that was invented by the ancient Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
A government ruled by royals
What is monarchy?
This Chinese philosophy empahsizes proper behavior
What is Confucianism?
The belief that a person's soul is reborn into another body after they die
What is reincarnation?
Ancient Greece was divided into these
What are city-states?
When it flooded, this river created a long fertile valley for Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush.
What is the Nile?
A government ruled by a few
What is an oligarchy?
This Chinese philosophy emphasizes strict obedience to laws
What is legalism
Hindu belief that a person has a duty orobligation to live an honerable life.
What is Dharma?
A city of Ancient Greece known for its democracy
What was Athens?
Symbols of Egyptian writing system.
What is heiroglyphs?
A government where power is held by the people
What is democracy?
A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes living in harmony with nature.
What is daoism?
The river that flows across most of northern India and carries silt from the Himalayas to the northern plains.
What is the Ganges?
These ancient Greek women had more rights than any other women in Greece.
What is Spartans?
He led the Israelite slaves out of Egypt
Who was Moses?
A government that is ruled by one person that most likely took it by force
What is a tyranny?
The Shang religion focused on this
What is ancestor worship?
They ruled during the Golden Age that produced some of the greatest advances in India history
Who were the Guptas?
A period of fighting between the Persian Empire and the allied Greek city-states for control of land
What are the Greco-Persian Wars?
Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Means "between 2 rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
A member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek society?
What is an aristocrat?
Huge desert that covers part of China and present-day Mongolia
What is the Gobi Desert?
A collection of texts that are the foundation of Hinduism
What are the Vedas?
The war that pitted Athen's powerful navy and its empire against Sparta's strong army and its allies
What was the Peloponnesian War?