An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
What is an empire?
100
A belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
A Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BCE.
What is Assyria?
100
The largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific?
200
A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
What is a city-state?
200
The desert that the Nile River flows through.
What is the Sahara?
200
A philosophy based on the ideas of Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called the Dao.
What is Daoism?
200
A governor of a province in the Persian Empire.
What is a Satrap?
200
The continent with the most people.
What is Asia?
300
A form of culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.
What is civilization?
300
The river which the Egyptians depended on for its annual flooding.
What is the Nile River?
300
A religion founded in India in the 6th Century BCE, whose members believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore should not be harmed.
What is Jainism?
300
A famous king of the Persian Empire from 550 to 539 BCE.
What is Cyrus the Great?
300
The ocean that is located between Asia, Africa, and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
400
The period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 to 1075 BCE.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
The most important religious document in Judaism.
What is the Torah?
400
A system of roads that allowed good communication throughout the Persian Empire.
What is the Royal Road?
400
Considered the oldest city in the world.
What is Catal Huyuk?
500
The two rivers that frame Mesopotamia and flow to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
The early writing system that began in Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
500
An important Persian religion that declined after the introduction of Islam.
What is Zoroaster?
500
A Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire.