Dawn of History
A belief in many gods is called what?
Polytheism
The form of Egyptian writing based on pictorial characters for words and sounds.
Hieroglyphics
A series of rulers from a single family in known as what?
A Dynasty
The Caste System is linked to which culture?
India
What is reincarnation?
Cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
What was China’s first writing system known as?
Chinese Characters
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The Chinese philosophical concept where a ruler is given the authority to rule as a Son of Heaven.
Define Cultural Diffusion
The process by which an idea, invention, or way of behaving is borrowed from one group to another
What Greek City-State is considered to be the first true Democracy?
Athens
Those who follow the Eightfold Path can attain Nirvana is a teaching from who?
Buddha
The Phoenicians made historical advances with the creation of what?
Their own Alphabet
Confucius taught a code of good conduct with 5 main relationships. Name 3 of the 5 relationships.
Father and son, Elder brother and junior brother, Husband and wife, Friend and friend, ruler and subject.
Mesopotamia is part of a larger area called what?
The Fertile Crescent
The Code of Hammurabi was linked to which empire?
Babylon
A belief that all things in nature have spirits is known as what?
Animism
Name the artifact which carried an inscription of different languages which helped decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script.
Rosetta Stone
What are two rivers in China created a very fertile region for farming?
Huang He (Yellow) and Jiang Yang
The people that first developed Mesopotamia were the ______.
What Egyptian Pharaoh was actually a women dressed in men’s clothing and wore a fake beard?
Hatshepsut.
What are the three main gods of Hinduism?
Bahman, Vishnu, and Shiva
The earliest known literature in India were the what?
Vedas
The Chinese Philosophies all have one major goal in common, what is the goal?
Restore order to society OR bring about peace.