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 is called _________.
What is cuneiform?
Through a discussion between a warrior and the god Krishna, the importance of dharma is reinforced in this later Hindu text.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
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?
This Chinese philosophy starts with the foundation that humans are inherently bad and need strict laws and punishments to keep them from breaking social norms and rules.
What is legalism?
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?
The oldest account of a great flood that wipes out creation is called _____________.
What is the Epic of Atrahasis?
Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from the Babylonian Exile as part of a religious mission from his Zoroastrian god, ____________.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
After overthrowing and severely punishing a neighbor kingdom, the Mauryan king, Ashoka, converted from __________ to Buddhism.
What is Hinduism?
This philosopher theorized about atoms two-thousand years before the Scientific Revolution.
Who is Democritus?
This ruler is the first recorded monotheist in history.
Who is Akhenaten or Amenhotep?
We have written sources for the Minoan civilization called _________--but we can't decipher it.
What is Linear A?
The term _________ is used to describe gods or goddesses with animal characteristics.
What is theriomorphic?
The Qin Dynasty emerged successful from the __________ period in China, creating a totalitarian state with the first emperor in their history.
What is the Warring States?
Socrates famously believed that he had a __________ that kept him from doing wrong.
What is a Daimonion?
The first idiographic scripts found in China were __________ carved into ox shoulders and turtle shells.
What are oracle bones?
In Plato's Timaeus, the rational, intellectual part of a person's soul is called _________.
What is Nous?
This Egyptian goddess represents justice, truth, and balance and is often represented by a feather.
Who is Ma'at?
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?
The first ruler of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia was _______________.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The Cyrus cylinder is a piece of propaganda legitimizing Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon by saying it was approved by ___________.
Who is Marduk?