Writing
The earliest for of writing in Ancient Egypt?
What is Hieroglphyics?
The God-King of Sumer who has a famous poem written about him.
Who is King Gilgamesh?
The Ancient Egyptian god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
The geographical feature where the four earliest civilizations (Sumer, Egypt, Indus and China) were all located.
What is a river valley?
What is the Nile?
The country where the earliest form of writing in the world invented.
What is Sumer?
Who is Confucious?
The Ancient Mesopotamian step pyramid temple.
What is a ziggurat?
Name three characteristics of a civilization.
What are government, cities, science and tech, writing, arts and monuments, religion, class structure?
A concept about death that Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism all share in their religious beliefs.
What is reincarnation?
What is cuneiform?
The ancient Babylonian King who wrote one of the first standardized code of laws in the world.
Who is Hammurabi?
A term that means a religion with many gods.
The hierarchical organization of the people in a society or community, often something someone is born into.
What is class structure?
The multi-step system that Buddha came up with for living a good life.
What is the 8-fold path?
Which of the four ancient civilization's writing can we still not read?
What is the Indus River Valley civilization?
The Ancient Indian king who tried to rule by Buddhist principles.
Who is Ashoka?
The three forms of the Hindu god who creates, preserves and destroys the universe.
Who are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva?
A concept used in ancient Indian religions, the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
What is Karma?
What are Stupas?
The type of paper invented by Ancient Egyptians for writing.
What is papyrus?
The great Ancient Egyptian woman pharaoh of the New Kingdom period.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The ancient Babylonian goddess of love and war.
Who is Ishtar?
Part of ancient Chinese philosophy, a Chinese word signifying the "way", "path". Go with the flow...
What is tao/dao?
A large blue entryway monument from Ancient Babylonia.
What is the Ishtar Gate?