Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics (Governments)
Economics
Social Structure
People
100
The enormous desert to the west of Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
The belief in many gods or goddesses
What is polytheism?
100
The Mesopotamian achievement pictured here.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
The eastern civilization that once threatened the ancient Greeks, fighting wars with them.
What is Persia?
100
The exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
What is bartering?
100
The title of the god-kings of Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
100
Founded Judaism
Who is Abraham?
200
The body of water known for its high levels of salt that prevents the existence of marine life.
What is the Dead Sea?
200
The holy books of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
200
The Greek achievement pictured here, located in the city-state of Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
200
The Roman Republic (and other democracies) relied on THIS concept from their citizens in order for their government to run effectively.
What is civic participation?
200
The term that describes the time of increased trade, population, and quality of life for many people in the Roman empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
200
The strict social structure used by ancient India, specifically by followers of Hinduism.
What is the caste system?
200
The 1st emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
300
The geographic feature (not man made) that protects China's northern border through isolation.
What is the Gobi Desert?
300
The legendary home of the Greek gods and goddesses.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
The wedge shaped writing of the Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
300
The Chinese dynasty responsible for giving civil service exams to government officials to determine their quality.
What is the Han Dynasty?
300
The trade route that allowed the Roman Empire to trade with the Han Dynasty in China.
What is the Silk Road?
300
The concept that describes variation in jobs due to new surpluses of food in a settlement.
What is specialization?
300
Responsible for the spread of Greek (Hellenistic) culture throughout the Middle East.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
The term that describes near total separation from other civilizations due to geographic features.
What is isolationism?
400
During the Babylonian Captivity and later after the Roman Diaspora, Jewish communities built these to preserve their cultural and religious heritage.
What are synagogues?
400
The civilization responsible for the inventions pictured here.
What is ancient India?
400
The form of government used by the Greek city-state of Sparta.
What is oligarchy?
400
The religion/philosophy that spread from India to China along the Silk Road through cultural diffusion.
What is Buddhism?
400
The TWO requirements for citizenship in the Greek city-state of Athens.
What are land-owning men?
400
2nd King of Israel who established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Who is David?
500
The vertical mountain range that runs down the middle of the Italian Peninsula.
What are the Apennine Mountains?
500
According to the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism, in order to master your desire and end your suffering, you must follow this.
What is the Eightfold Path?
500
The Roman achievement pictured here.
What is an aqueduct?
500
The belief system that Shi Huangdi attempted to destroy forever through censorship.
What is Confucianism?
500
The item that Egypt had in surplus to trade to Nubia.
What is grain?
500
The people who occupied high social positions in many civilizations due to their rare skill of reading and writing.
What is a scribe?
500
The Roman emperor who made Constantinople the capital of the Eastern Empire, converted to Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
600
The geographic feature that connects the sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
600
The legendary founders of Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
600
The Egyptian achievement pictured here.
What is the Sphinx?
600
The battle that resulted in a Persian victory and the death of King Leonidas and his 300 elite Spartans.
What is Thermopylae?
600
The TWO things that are necessary for social classes to form?
What is a surplus of food and job specialization?
600
The level of the caste system most likely to become a follower of Siddhartha Gautama.
Who are Dalits?
600
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his Persian princess.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
700
The flat, elevated geographic feature that is the birthplace of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.
What is a Plateau of Tibet?
700
The Egyptian god of chaos and evil. The arch enemy of Horus. Nobody is sure which animal's head is shown in his pictures.
Who is Set?
700
The Mesopotamian achievement pictured here.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
700
The THREE branches of the United States government that are similar to the government in Rome’s Republic
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
700
The term that refers to information about goods and services, their production and use, and the value of a society’s money.
What is an economy?
700
The term for government officials who worked closely with the Pharaohs of Egypt to run the army, oversee religious practices, and judge court cases.
What are viziers?
700
Leader of the Visigoths that sacked Rome in 410 CE.
Who is Alaric?