Mesopotamia
This is one of the rivers between which cities first began to spring up
What is the Tigris or the Euphrates
The name of the valley located in South Asia which includes the Indian subcontinent?
What is the Indus Valley?
The war the Mycenaeans are best remembered for.
The Trojan War.
The belief in only one God.
What is monotheism?
The Rosetta Stone helped unlock knowledge of this ancient language.
What are hieroglyphics?
The name of the area that stretches in an arc from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
The Fertile Crescent
This is the seasonal wind that brings rain in May and June that shapes India's life and brings life to their crops.
What is a monsoon?
Wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer
Considered the father of the Israelites and Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
This geographic feature of the Fertile Crescent led to the rise of the Sumerian civilization.
What is flooding?
Name the long poem from the Sumerians which contained the story of a great flood.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A collection of hymns, chants, and religious teachings important to the Vedic people.
What are the Vedas?
The people whose civilization included the Palace at Knossos on Crete.
Who are the Minoans?
This is the name of the spreading out of the Jewish people which spread Judaism to the world.
What is the Diaspora?
The name of a large landmass that juts out from a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
The type of ancient temple built by the Sumerians to honor their gods, especially their moon god.
What is the Ziggurat?
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
What are 2 epic Vedic poems which teach Hindu values.
The Greek city-state which citizens took part in the day-to-day affairs of the government.
What is Athens?
This kingdom saw the building of the pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
This is, for the Buddhist, the final goal of life which gives release from the cycle of rebirth.
What is nirvana?
This type of Hittite culture gradually spread across the region.
This allows Hindus to continue working toward moksha.
What is reincarnation?
The type of government where small, wealthy elite rule.
What is an oligarchy?
The process of preservation to give the soul the use of the body in the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Which civilization first had an empire that stretched across a huge area of land.
What is the Persian Empire?