Geography
The two rivers of Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Northernmost city state in Greece (so far)
Troy
Who ruled after Cyrus the Great died?
His Son
Early Indian settlements had a very sophisticated form of _________.
Plumbing
What basically said that emperors had God’s authority to rule as long as they were just (fair and good)
Mandate of Heaven
Arable land area in the Middle East
Fertile Crescent
Kush
The Royal Road runs between what two cities?
Susa and Sardis
We believe early Indus culture were probably a peaceful people because ________
Few weapons found in their ruins
Migratory raiders came from areas north of China. These people where known as the ___________
Mongols
The mountain range protecting India from the West
Hindu Kush
Two ancient settlements in India
Harappa/Mohenjo Daro
Which Persian ruler established common weights and measures?
Darius 1
Who installed a caste system (Jati system) to divide people into classes?
The Aryans
The Silk Road began in China and ran all the way west to a fertile crescent city called ________.
Cairo
Mountain range on the eastern side of the Persian Empire
Hindu Kush
Anyang was a settlement on what river?
Huang He (Yellow River)
Persia was an empire in southwest Asia, based in what is today the country of _______.
Iran
He was the greatest emperor of the Mauryan Empire and also spread Buddhism
Ashoka
The earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing was called _____.
Oracle-bone script
The Phoenicians made settlements around this sea
Mediterranean
All four of the ancient settlements from the Neolithic Era
Stonehenge, Chatahouk, Aleppo, Jerricho
Persia, unlike many other early empires, was unique because of its __________, and welcomed those people into the empire as equals.
Tolerance
Math, Medicine, and Astronomy were contributions of what emperor?
Chandra Gupta
Loss of the Mandate of Heaven and overthrowing Dynasties over and over is known as _________
Dynastic Cycle