World Religions
This is the social hierarchy of the Hindu faith.
What is the caste system?
This is the term for a collection of closely scattered islands.
What is an archipelago?
Plebeians were the common people of Rome and a majority of the population. What is the term for the upper-class minority?
What are patricians?
This was the trade network created during the Han Dynasty that connected China to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This is the term for the turning point that involved the invention of agriculture.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Prior to the invention of agriculture and the creation of river valley civilizations, humans followed their food source. What is the word for this type of lifestyle?
What is nomadic?
Genghis Khan’s grandchildren fought over who should rule the Mongol Empire. The empire eventually broke into four. What is the term for these smaller empires?
What are khannates?
What is polytheism?
This is the body of water just south of the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The Roman Republic grew strong after its victory over Carthage in this series of wars.
What are the Punic Wars (246–146 BCE)?
These two products were central to the Trans-Saharan Trade Route.
What are gold and salt?
He became the first Emperor of Rome following the civil wars after Julius Caesar’s death.
This was the famously harsh legal code created in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This was the legal code foundational to the Roman Republic.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This faith was spread following the conversion of Ashoka the Great.
What is Buddhism?
These are the three parts of a geographic context paragraph.
What are location, features, and impact?
This is the emperor of Rome who passed the Edict of Milan in 313 CE.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
These are the small roadside inns that served as resting places for travelings merchants along the Silk Road.
What are caravansaries?
This peasant revolt led to the end of the Han Dynasty.
What is the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
These TWO rivers allowed civilization to develop in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the first writing system developed in ancient Mesopotamia.
This is the path that Buddhists must follow to live a good and noble life.
What is the Eightfold Path?
This peninsula was the heartland of the Mayan Empire.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This is the term for the two “presidents” of the Roman Republic, the highest elected office.
What are consuls?
This city was a center of trade and the center of the Islamic Golden Age.
What is Baghdad?
Shi Huangdi was the first emperor of this dynasty, who ended the Warring States period and United China?
What is the Qin Dynasty?
This is the word for manmade water channels that help water crops, created by all the ancient river valley civilizations.
What is irrigation?
The Huang He is China’s “Cradle of Civilization.” What is the other river significant to China’s early development?
What is the Yangtze River?
This was the monotheistic faith of the Persian Empire.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Many Greek city-states were located on islands in this small sea.
What is the Aegean Sea?
The conquest of this province made Julius Caesar incredibly wealthy.
What is Gaul (France)?
This is the term for the period of stability that revitalized the Silk Roads in the 1200s.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This is the father of Alexander the Great, who initially conquered the Greek city-states.
Who is Phillip II of Macedon?
This river valley is known as China's "Cradle of Civilization."
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?