Geography
River in Northwest India
Indus
Respect for parents by children
filial piety
founder of a world religion in 500s BCE
the Buddha
name of script
cuneiform
warlike city-state
Sparta
River that flows from south to north
Nile
Philosophy of going with the flow
Daoism
Hindu/Indian term for major social groups
varna
temples were known as
ziggurats
name of a type of ship used in war
trireme
The land between two rivers
Mesopotamia
Castrated male who guards the palace
Eunuch
caste duty
dharma
city where captured Hebrews were taken
Babylon
A man ran 26 miles to warn Athenians of attack from
Persia
Capital of the Achaemenid Persian empire
Persepolis
Emperor who built famous tomb with 5000 soldiers
Shi Huangdi
religion that preaches extreme nonviolence
Jainism
ruler who prescribed severe punishment for crimes
Hammurabi
Name of philosopher killed in Alexandria
Hypatia
Chinese desert crossed by traders on Silk Road
Taklamakan
Emperor who ordered first maritime voyage in 1405
Yongle
This emperor's name means "without sorrow"
Ashoka
first work of world literature
Epic of Gilgamesh
Dates of war between Athens and Sparta
431-404 BCE