Geography
This geographical feature created a large area of fertile land and connected Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River Delta?
The statue of Khafre enthroned has a falcon on the pharaoh's shoulder to represent this god.
Who is Horus?
Rather than originally referring to the ruler, this term means "Great House," and was popularized outside of Egypt by its use in the Hebrew Bible. Later, it came to mean the ruler of Egypt in Egyptian use as well.
What is the word "pharaoh"?
Almost every sentence in this document contains the phrase "I have not."
What is the Negative Confession?
This is the practice of organizing a space to optimize the flow of Qi and balance its elements.
What is Fengshui?
These two rivers are the longest in China, and provided the agricultural basis for Chinese civilization.
What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?
A pharaoh's name and/or title engraved within an oval with a bar on one side
What is a cartouche?
This colossal monument is a stunning testament to the ingenuity and hard work of the Old Kingdom Egyptians, and is the only Wonder of the World known to the ancient Greeks that is still standing today.
What is the Great Pyramid?
This is the name of a goddess, and is also the name of the organizing principle of Egyptian society, which can be translated as "harmony."
This is an Egyptian god guilty of fratricide.
Who is Set?
This zone of Egypt is upstream on the Nile, and thus further South. Its symbolic animal is the vulture, and its crown is white and tall.
What is Upper Egypt?
The system of rules that determines people are depicted in art with legs and heads in profile, and that having one's feet together indicates femininity
What is the Canon of Proportions?
This person is recorded as having said, "If his person is correct, without his giving orders they will be carried out; if his person is not correct, though he gives orders they will not be obeyed."
Who is Confucius?
This Chinese term is sometimes translated as "benevolence" or "empathy," and is used by both Confucius and Mozi.
What is "Ren"?
They conquered China, but could not conquer Egypt.
Who are the Mongols?
Known as the "roof of the world," this area forms a considerable natural barrier to entry from China's southwest side.
What is the Tibetan Plateau and/or Himalayan Mountains?
The Chinese term for a roof with upturned eaves, i.e. where the corners slant upwards into points.
What is a resting mountain roof?
This social class grew in power to the point that the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten decided to try to make all Egyptians worship only one god.
Who were the priests?
This phrase is a core tenet of Confucianism, and refers to reverence for one's parents and superiors.
What is filial piety?
This emperor caused an interlude in the Tang Dynasty, and claimed to be an incarnation of the Buddha.
Who was Wu Zetian?
In folklore, the name of this desert is said to mean "when you go in, you don't come out." Silk Road traders circled around it to the North or South.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
Symbols in a writing system which is not based on sound in the same way as an alphabet, but evolved from and includes pictures of things (this term includes both Chinese and Egyptian symbols)
What are ideographs?
This book contains the quote: "It is because the most excellent do not strive to excel that they are of the highest efficacy."
What is the Daodejing?
This hyphenated English adjective used in our translation of Laozi means "without using force," or "not forcing someone to do something."
What is "non-coercive"?
It is all the more impressive that the Chinese invented this, given their writing system.
What is movable type printing?