What seminal thinkers arose in all three civilizations between about 550 and 400 B.C.E.?
What is Confucius and Laozi, Buddha, and Socrates.
100
Farming in Africa took earliest root on the southern fringes of the __________, which was less arid than it is today.
Fill in the blank.
What is Sahara.
100
What were the Daoist leaders called?
What is the Yellow Turbans.
100
What doctrine was developed some centuries after Buddha's death?
What is bodhisattvas.
100
A key tenet involved a complex doctrine of the Trinity, which held that the one God had three persons - the ________, the ____, and the ______ _______.
Fill in the blanks.
What is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
200
Who did China promote a common language for?
What is the elite.
200
What was the first great state in the African region?
What is Ghana.
200
The ___ dynasty briefly ruled, and then in 618 C.E. it was followed by the _____, who sponsored one of the most glorious periods in Chinese history.
Fill in the blanks.
What is Sui...Tang.
200
What was the east Asian form of Buddhism called?
What is Mahayana.
200
What religion would initially surpass Christianity as a world faith and has remained Christianity's most tenacious rival?
What is Islam.
300
_____________ involved two basic issues, the most obvious of which was territorial.
Fill in the blank.
What is integration.
300
What was Japan's religion?
What is Shintoism.
300
What does Devi mean (within Hinduism)?
What is the worship of a mother goddess.
300
How many people count themselves as Buddhists in the world today?
What is some 500 million people.
300
Ethiopians learned about Christianity from ________ ________ traders.
Fill in the blanks.
What is Middle Eastern.
400
What leading thinker opposed inequalities?
What is Buddha.
400
The first American civilization was based on many centuries of advancing agriculture, expanding from the early cultivation of ______.
Fill in the blank.
What is corn.
400
What two religions produced a deep rift in this world that has not been healed to this day?
What is Christianity and Muslim.
400
Christianity moved eastward, from its original center in the Middle East, as Buddhism was spreading west from India. True or false?
What is false.
400
What Japanese import prepared parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas for new developments in the centuries to come?
What is the Japanese import of writing.
500
What independent kingdom possessed a form of writing derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics and mastered the use of iron?
What is Kush.
500
What first great city was built by the Olmecs' successors in the Americas, as a center for trade and worship?
What is Teotihuacan.
500
Around 227 C.E., a Persian rebellion displaced the __________ and created a new ___________ Empire that more directly revived the glories of the earlier Persian Empire.
Fill in the blanks.
What is Parthians...Sassanid.
500
What was the leadership of the bishop of Rome over a centralized church organization called?
What is pope.
500
The spread of what major religions was a vital result of the changes in classical civilizations brought on by attack and decay?
Hint: five religions
What is Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Islam.