Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
Israel
China
Greece
Rome
Vocabulary
100

Two rivers in Mesopotamia. 

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

100

This geographic feature is the reason for Egypt's success with resources, crops, and trading. 

What is the Nile River? 

100

These early invaders of India spread their ideas of a strict social class system and a universal spirit called Brahman. 

Who are the Aryans? 

100

He is known as the father of both Judaism and Christianity. 

Who is Abraham? 

100
This is the effect that mountains, deserts, and seas (along with the large size) had on China and the surrounding civilizations. 

What is isolating or isolation? 

100

This goddess was named as Athen's protector. 

Who is Athena? 

100

This leader was assassinated because of the Senate fearing his gaining too much power. 

Who was Julius Caesar? 

100

Rule by small group 

What is an oligarchy?

200

This is the land feature in which Mesopotamia is located. 

What is the Fertile Crescent? 

200

Egyptian religion focused mainly on this. 

What is the afterlife or continuity? 

200

This river's civilization was the FIRST to flourish during India's history. 

The Indus River Valley

200

He is the most well known and most popular king in Israel's history and was also a shepherd, musician, and warrior who defeated both a giant and led the Israelite army to defeat the Philistines. 

Who was King David? 

200

This was arguably the most important and most popular Chinese invention causing trade routes to be named for it. 

What is silk?

200

Athens was the first in the ancient world to have rule by its citizens, known as this type of government. 

What is democracy? 

200

This leader won battles against Mark Antony and Cleopatra to become the first Roman emperor and was responsible for a 300 year period of peace. 

Who is Caesar Augustus? 

200
Self-governed area with its own boundaries and citizens, usually surrounded by a wall for protection.

What is a city-state?

300

This was the first written set of laws by a Babylonian king. 

What is Hammurabi's Code?

300

The discovery of this Egyptian pharaoh's tomb in 1922 made him or her the most famous throughout the modern world.

Who is King Tutankhamun? 

300

These were the outcasts of Indian society because they had not followed dharma (the rules of their social caste) in a former life. 

Who were the Dalits? 

300

These were the main written laws of the Israelites. 

What are the Ten Commandments? 

300

These two geographical features were the location in which Chinese civilization first developed. 

The Yellow (Huang He) and the Yangtze Rivers. 

300

This philosopher was known for using questions to teach his students, but was distrusted, and eventually arrested, tried and executed for that teaching method. 

Who is Socrates? 

300

This religious leader claimed to be the son of God, was born in Nazareth in Judea, and was later executed due to a false accusation that he was plotting to overthrow the Romans in Jerusalem.

Who was Jesus?

300

A group of people living in a different location than their home country. 

What is a colony?

400

These two inventions led to Mesopotamian city-states trading with each other. 

What are the sail and the wheel? 

400

If an Egyptian's heart was weighed as light as Ma'at's feather of truth, then the person would go on to this afterlife location. 

The afterlife or "Field of Reeds" to farm forever. 

400

This process was a person's spirit being released into a new body or sometimes to become one with Brahman, the universal spirit. 

What is reincarnation? 

400

Moses led the Israelites from their slavery in Egypt into this. 

What is the Promised Land or land God promised to them? 

400

He was an influential leader in China whose ideas centered around leaders' responsibilities, family relationships and filial piety.

Who is Confucius?

400

Most Greek city-states were located near a sea and used this type of trade more than any other. 

What is maritime trade or trade over water? 

400

This leader split the Roman Empire into two parts: Eastern and Western. He named the Eastern capital city after himself, and later converted to Christianity because of a vision of a cross during battle. 

Who was Constantine? 

400

The spread of Greek language, culture, arts, and ideas to other areas of the ancient world due to Alexander the Great's conquests.

What is hellenism? 

500

The event which led to the ending of hunter/gatherers and the beginning of Mesopotamia as the first civilization. 

What is the agricultural revolution? 

500

These are the large tombs that housed the pharaoh's body, sarcophagus, and all the things needed for the journey into the afterlife. 

What is a pyramid? 

500

This force decided if a person who lived in ancient India would be reincarnated into a higher or lower caste. 

What is karma? 

500

The number of times the Israelites were captured and forced into slavery. 

What is two? 

500

This Chinese leader (1) united all Chinese provinces by a powerful army (2) used the philosophy of legalism to rule, and (3) is the person for whom China is named.

Who is Qin Shi Huang Di? 

500
This Greek city-state was known for its military society, physical strength and bravery during battles. Their force of 300 men fought and sacrificed their lives against the Persian army at Thermopylae. 

Who are the Spartans? 

500

The murder of many emperors, political corruption, armies stealing food from Roman farms, and a foreign army destroying Rome led to this. 

What is the fall (or end) of the Roman Empire? 

500

What two things do Hammurabi's code of laws and Rome's Twelve Tables have in common? 

They were both sets of laws thatwritten on stone and  were displayed in public for everyone to see. 

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