Paleolithic/Neolithic
The origin of the earliest humans
What is Africa?
Home of the Book of the Dead, pharaohs and pyramids
What is Egypt?
The social class pyramid of Hinduism
What is the caste system?
The leader of the Mauryan Empire that spread Buddhism
Who was Ashoka?
The geographic feature that separates India from China
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
The economy of the Paleolithic Era
What is hunting and gathering?
Home of the ziggurats, city-states and two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia? (Babylon or Sumer)
The rebirth of the soul through multiple lifetimes
What is reincarnation?
When a government has lower level officials to run a large empire.
What is bureaucracy?
Spies, tax collectors, governments, etc are example of...
What is bureaucracy?
The economy of the Neolithic Era
What is farming and domestication?
Home of well-planned cities on a grid: Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
What is Indus River Valley?
Buddha's main ideas about desire and suffering.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
The vocabulary term associated with gender roles in India.
What is patriarchy?
The major way that Buddhism spread to China, Korea, Japan and Indonesia
What are the Silk Roads?
River valleys
What is location of farming?
The two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The way in which Buddhists should live their life (their dharma) Examples would be: right meditation, right mindset, right diet, etc
The Eightfold Path
The Gupta's most famous achievement that helps students today :)
What is the concept of zero?
These THREE things are needed for a golden age.
What are stability, prosperity and wealth?
The historical context of the Neolithic Revolution
What is the ending of the Ice Age?
Causation of the Sumer's negative outlook on the afterlife
What is the uncontrollable flooding of the rivers?
In Hinduism, the release from the life cycle.
What is moksha?
The geographic context for the Golden Age of the Guptas
What are the Silk Roads?
What is currency?