Stone Age
This practice allowed humans to develop the first civilizations...
What is agriculture?
This river flows North through Egypt...
What is the Nile River?
This Chinese belief system enforced strict laws and punishments...
What is Legalism?
Greece is primarily a collection of _________ in addition to its mountainous mainland. This means Greece is an Archipelago...
What are islands?
He would fight alongside his troops, adopt the culture of those he conquered, and brought Greek culture as far as India...
This region of the world was the first home of agriculture...
What is the Fertile Crescent? AKA Mesopotamia
These rivers defined Ancient Mesopotamia...
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers...?
This Chinese leader unified and defended China, but executed many of its Confucian scholars in the process...
Who was Shi Huangdi?
This city-state toughened its citizenry with training, feats of strength and endurance, and advocated for mental toughness as well...
What is Sparta?
This trade route connected the port cities of East Africa, Mesopotamia, India, China, and elsewhere in the ancient world...
What was the Indian Ocean Complex?
Agriculture includes growing crops and ___________
What is rearing, or raising, animals?
This writing system is crucial for historians to understand life in the Fertile Crescent...
What is Cuneiform?
This religion grew in India but spread to China through the Silk Road...
What is Buddhism?
This style of government can be traced back to Ancient Athens and is quite common today...
This Chinese philosopher would say that "life is sweet" if you simply took the time to stop and enjoy it...
Who was Lao Tzu?
This ancient belief system states that there are spirits in all things around us...
What is animism?
This group of people founded Judaism in what is now known as Israel...
Who were the Hebrews?
This Hindu tradition, though controversial, organized society into groups with different roles, responsibilities, and powers...
What is the Caste System?
This neighboring civilization invaded Greece twice. Although it was quite advanced for its time, Greece hated it like it hated all other outsiders...
What is Persia?
This Hindu god helped the brave Hindu prince Arjuna rediscover his purpose and duty as a soldier...
Who was Krishna?
This process allows for water to be transported to arid, or dry, areas for farming...
What is irrigation?
This climate phenomenon brought annual, predictable flooding to the Indus River Valley...
What are monsoons?
This Indian Emperor defeated the Hellenic armies of Alexander the Great... His grandson was a rather tolerant ruler later in life...
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
This man conquered the many Greek city-states like Sparta and unified them all after they had been weakened by the Greek Civil War (Peloponnesian War)...
Who was Philip of Macedon?
This law code is infamous as the source of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" mentality...
What was Hammurabi's Code?