Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece
The period of history that started with unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Menes the Fighter.
What is the Old Kingdom?
What the first 5 books of the Old Testament are called.
What is the Torah (or Books of Moses)
The acts that form the fundamental practices of Islam.
What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
People who migrated from Central Asia to the Gangetic Plain in the 2nd millennium BCE.
Who are the Aryans?
He said, "You love the sheep, I love the ceremony".
Who is Confucius?
A philosophy which suggests that one should spend life indulging your interests, meditating and learning, and being among friends.
What is Epicurianism?
The first mention of the Israelites in the historical record.
What is the Merneptah Stele?
The Arabic terms (2) meaning "submission" and "one who submits"
What are "Islam" and "Muslim"?
The language in which the Vedas and Upanishads were written.
What is Sanskrit?
The first Emperor of China.
Who was Shi Huang Ti?
His conquests brought an end to the Golden Age of ancient Egypt.
Who is Alexander III (the Great)?
A man whose writings and travels were instrumental to the early spread of Christianity.
Who was Paul of Tarsus?
These men were the first and last prophets in the Abrahamic tradition.
Who are Abraham and Muhammad?
He unified a large potion of South Asia at the tip of a sword, but then turned away from violence and became a Buddhist.
Who was Ashoka?
Terms that describe (1) humanity/altruism, (2) filial piety, and (3) ritual piety.
What are (1) ren, (2) xiao, and (3) li?
Regional governors in ancient Egypt.
Who were the nomarchs?
Chapters 5-7 of the Gospel of Matthew which describe the moral teachings and sayings of Jesus.
What is the Sermon on the Mount.
It means "good news", but also references parts of the New Testament which describe the teachings and life of Jesus.
What are the Gospels?
Part of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata in which Arjuna and Krishna discus the virtues of dharma.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
Effortless action.
What is Wu Wei?
A philosophy in which hope and fear are considered to be the enemies of reason.
What is Stoicism?
Meaning "migration", this term describe the period in which Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution.
What is the Hijra?
A collection of the sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad.
What is the Hadith?
Similar sounding terms which describe a (1) god of creation, (2) a priestly caste, and (3) the ultimate reality and fabric of the universe.
What are (1) Brahma, (2) Brahmin, and (3) Brahman?
They introduced the idea of the Mandate of Heaven.
Who are the Zhou?