Ancient Greece
This city-state's citizens gathered in an Assembly to debate and personally vote on their laws.
What is Athens?
Rome's first written code of laws, which ensured all free citizens were treated fairly, was known as this.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This Mauryan king's reputation changed from a violent conqueror to a peaceful leader after the Battle of Kalinga.
Who is Ashoka the Great?
This was the official ideology of the Chin Dynasty, based on the belief that all citizens were evil and needed strict laws.
What is Legalism?
This city in China served as the starting point for the massive network of Silk Road trade routes.
What is Chang’an?
This city-state was ruled by an Oligarchy consisting of two kings and a council of elders.
What is Sparta?
These were the two main social classes in Rome: the wealthy land-owning nobles and the common farmers and merchants.
Who are the Patricians and Plebeians?
Ashoka used these massive stone structures to tell his people about his new laws regarding kindness and non-violence.
What are Edicts or Stone Pillars?
To protect his empire from bandits, the first Chin Emperor forced thousands of people to work on this massive structure.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This term describes how trade allowed religions like Buddhism to spread from India to China.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
In Sparta, boys were taken from their families at this age to begin living in barracks and training for war.
What is age 7?
Roman engineers used gravity and long stone channels called these to bring fresh water into busy cities.
What are Aqueducts?
Historians call the Gupta Empire this because of its many achievements in science, math, and art.
What is a "Golden Age"?
The Han Dynasty replaced harsh legalism with the teachings of this scholar, who focused on politics and relationships.
Who is Confucius?
Name two of the high mountains or harsh deserts that made Silk Road travel "long and dangerous".
Any two: Gobi Desert, Taklamakan Desert, Himalayan Mountains, or Hindu Kush.
While Athenian women had very few rights, women in this city-state could own property and participate in sports.
What is Sparta?
Julius Caesar ended the Republic's shared power when he took total control and named himself this title.
What is "Dictator for Life"?
This mathematical concept, which we still use today to represent "nothing," was a major invention of the Gupta period.
What is the Decimal System or Zero?
This Chinese concept meant that individuals should put the needs of their family above their own interests.
What is Filial Piety?
China sent silk and paper to the West; name two luxury goods that traders brought from the West (Rome/Europe) back to China.
What are Gold and Glass?
To make trade with other cities difficult, Sparta used heavy bars made of this metal as their currency.
What is iron?
This Roman invention allowed for massive, permanent structures like harbors and the Pantheon dome because it could even set under water.
What is Concrete?
To protect people from sickness like smallpox, doctors in the Gupta Empire developed this early medical practice.
What is Inoculation or Vaccination?
To ensure only the most qualified people worked in the government, the Han used a meritocracy based on these written tests.
What are Civil Service Examinations?
During the early stages of the Silk Road, traders often followed this Chinese landmark for protection against bandits.
What is the Great Wall of China?