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a great love of country and desire to be free of foreign influences
Aryans entered India through this geographic feature
Khyber Pass
One of the major rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris, Euphrates, Jordan
The time of Roman peace is called this
Pax Romana
What were stepped like pyramids in Babylon called?
ziggurats
The conflict between Greeks and Persians
The Greco Persian Wars
This emperor blamed the Christians for the fire in Rome in 64 AD
Nero
Why were the hanging gardens of Babylon built?
King Neb built them for his wife
The Sumerians invented this earliest form of writing
cuneiform
A central belief of Hinduism
reincarnation
What was the code that the king of Babylon created and wrote on stele?
Hammurabi's code
The classical language of India
Sanskrit
This type of social/political structure was a collection of relationships among vassals, exchanging loyalty, protection, food.
feudalism
He was crowned Holy Roman Empire on Christmas Day 800
Charlamagne
The Indian Vedic Ages are marked by this social structure
caste system
Who was the great inca ruler who led the empire almost as large as rome
Pachacuti
A young boy of 7 that would start to work for a knight
page
bull jumping was a famous sport of the Minoans on this island
Crete
What farming technique did the mayans invent?
slash and burn
Susa, Persepolis, and Ecbatana were capitals of which empire?
Persian
This empire is often defined as the first terrorist organization
Assyrian empire
What was the name of the Persian god?
Ahura Mazda
He conquered England in 1066
William of Normandy (the Conqueror)
What ancient Indus River cities had advance irrigation and plumbing systems?
Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
These were wars fought between Carthage and Rome
The Punic Wars