Greece
Athens' longtime rival, this city-state trained its children for combat from an early age in a school known as the agoge.
What is Sparta?
This alternative name for Mesopotamia describes the region's impressive agricultural productivity, and its shape.
What is the "Fertile Crescent?"
This river valley is the site of the earliest settlements in China.
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?
This emperor's army fought against Spartans and their allies at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE.
Who is Xerxes I?
This geographic feature separates the American civilizations from all others.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Herodotus, Socrates, and Plato all lived during this time of peace and prosperity in Athens.
What is the Golden Age? (5th century BCE)
This early hero myth tells the story of a semi-divine king of Uruk and his wild friend.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This person was the author of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji) and lived during the Han Dynasty?
Who is Sima Qian?
This conqueror ended the Assyrian and Babylonian policy of exile.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This Olmec god was depicted as a feathered serpent, sort of like a bird with a really long tail.
What is the Quetzalcoatl?
This is the sea between the Greek peninsula and Anatolia.
What is the Aegean?
These people could own businesses and property, serve in religious roles, and even rule a city in Sumeria!
Who are women?
This dynasty divided rule of the territory among powerful nobles in an early form of feudalism.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
These provincial governors helped the emperor to rule a massive territory so efficiently that Alexander the Great decided to keep the system.
Who are Satraps?
Who are the Olmecs?
Classical and Hellenistic Greeks established these cities outside of their own territory for the purposes of trade.
What are colonies?
This empire was the first in Mesopotamia after the Late Bronze Age Collapse, and it kept control of its subjects through fear and exile.
What is the Neo-Assyrian?
These artifacts preserve the earliest form of Chinese writing.
What are Oracle Bones?
This prophet received a vision which revealed there is one creator god, Ahura Mazda, locked in battle with the evil destroyer, Angra Mainyu.
Who is Zoroaster (Zarathustra)?
This earliest civilization thrived on the coastal plains of modern-day Peru in South America.
What is the Norte Chico (Caral) civilization?
The "Greek Dark Age" ended when this reappeared.
What is written language?
This legendary building once housed over 30,000 cuneiform tablets.
What is the Library at Nineveh?
This philosophy was used to justify the Qin policy of Total War.
What is Legalism?
This policy of allowing people to practice different religions was probably enacted because of Zoroastrian beliefs.
What is religious tolerance?
This versatile crop was grown on terrace farms and was used by early Americans to fish and make clothing.
What is cotton?