Gods & Goddesses
This ancient Indian god was sacrificed and dismembered to make the various social classes known as Varnas.
Who is Purusha?
The Peloponnesian War involved two Greek poleis: Athens and __________.
What is Sparta?
This philosopher taught the Five Relationships to establish a structured social order that started in the home and extended out into broader society.
Who is Confucius?
The first writing in the Fertile Crescent was called _________.
What is cuneiform?
Hellenism, or Greek culture, spread as a result of the empire created by ________________ shortly after his death.
Who is Alexander?
The first emperor of China attached this deity's name to his own to legitimize his rule as divinely chosen.
Who is Di?
The Indus Valley Civilization was brought to an end with the coming of the Indo-Aryans, who replaced their religion with their own Vedic religion and their language with ___________.
What is Sanskrit?
The Christian Gospel of __________ shows the most influence from Greek philosophy.
What is John?
Rome's first type of government was a ___________.
What is a monarchy?
Name at least one element of the Jewish religion that was affected by syncretism.
What is eschaton, apocalypse genre, Septuagint, etc.?
Cyrus the Great claimed that the Babylonian god ____________ had chosen him to conquer Babylon and bring it into his empire.
Who is Marduk?
After overthrowing and severely punishing a neighbor kingdom, the Mauryan king, Ashoka, converted from __________ to Buddhism.
What is Hinduism?
___________ promotes the following of "the Way" and urges followers to practice inaction.
What is Daoism?
This ruler is the first recorded monotheist in history.
Who is Amenhotep or Akhenaten?
What is Sinicization?
The term _________ is used to describe gods or goddesses with animal characteristics.
What is theriomorphic?
The Roman Empire required proof that its citizens were making the necessary sacrifices to the gods, making them show a receipt of public sacrifice called a ________.
What is a libellus/libelli?
Socrates famously believed that he had a __________ that kept him from doing wrong.
What is a Daimonion?
The first emperor of Rome was named ___________.
Hellenism spread through Alexander's Empire, allowing for multiple translations across Afroeurasia, thanks largely to the adoption of a simplified Greek language known as ___________.
What is Koine Greek?
In the Roman Empire, people were allowed to worship whichever gods they wanted so long as they made the required public sacrifices to whom?
Who is the Emperor?
The Greco-Persian Wars were kicked off by this revolt.
What is the Ionian Revolt?
The belief that the universe and everything in it is made out of only one of the four elements is called ___________.
What is Monism?
This philosopher is considered the first to have pulled away from Greek classics and mythology to ask larger, more existential philosophical and abstract questions about the universe and what's in it.
Who is Thales?
This group of people served as intermediaries along the Silk Roads, facilitating the trade and blending of cultures as they moved goods from East to West.
Who were the Sogdians?