Mesopotamia
The two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The fan-shaped center of civilization in Egypt.
What is the Nile Delta?
The home region of the Harappan civilization
What is the Indus River Valley?
The promise and agreement between God and Abraham
What is a covenant?
This barrier protected China's northern border
What is the Great Wall of China?
Most of Greece's history and literature centered on this body of water
What is the Aegean Sea?
The Roman Empire controlled the lands around which body of water?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The most basic requirement for building a society or civilization.
What is a food surplus?
Annual flooding of the Nile enabled the development of this timekeeping system.
What is a calendar?
This created a new blended religion and social structure in the Indus River Valley.
What are the Aryan invasions?
This gold-covered box was for a time the home of Israel's deity
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
This dynasty led China for the longest period of time
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Each of these independent societies developed its own laws and culture
What is a polis?
This half-ruined stadium was the place of battle for gladiators
What is the Colosseum?
The ruler of the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
Egyptian pharaohs depended on this religious manual to reach the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
The social structure from servants to priests.
What is the caste system?
The collection of Hebrew laws
What is the Torah?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Ancient rulers used this to secure the right to their throne
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This practice of citizenship was for male citizens, but not for women
What is voting?
This early government was ruled by two consuls, an assembly, and a senate.
What is the Roman Republic?
What Sumer achievement enabled the development of history?
What is writing or cuneiform?
A visual writing decoded by the Rosetta Stone
What is hieroglyphics?
The Hindu who founded Buddhism
Who is Siddartha Gautama?
Hebrew king who managed for Israel what Narmer did for Egypt
Who is Saul?
Ch'in Shi Huangdi used this philosophy to rule with an iron fist
What is Legalism?
This military conflict made Sparta strong and Athens weak.
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
The long period of peaceful growth, strength, and development under Caesar Augustus
What is the Pax Romana?
The basis of Western legal systems.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The most valuable insight into burial practices.
What is King Tut's tomb?
This Buddhist teaching promised the ultimate relief
What is nirvana?
For Jews, the worst result of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Jerusalem
What is the destruction of the Temple?
This Confucian teaching taught respect for one's elders and family.
What is filial piety?
Alexander the Great conquered lands to build an empire and make this famous.
What is Hellenism?
This military problem facing Rome proved to be the biggest reason the Empire fell.
What are barbarian invasions?