Ancient India
These mountains provided India with a natural barrier to invasion
What are the Hindu Kush mountains?
Painted and glossed, it would ship along the Silk Road to adorn cabinets and dinner tables alike
What is porcelain?
This city state was perfectly fine with women having equal status as men
What is Sparta?
The Roman leader who was stabbed to death by the Senate for trying to give more to the poor
Julius Caesar
This leader crossed the Alps with elephants to attack Rome
Who is Hannibal?
These texts provide a base for the Hindu religion
What are the Vedas and the Upanishads?
This invention helped the Chinese navigate the seas more accurately than the starcharts they'd previously used
What is a compass?
The four words that make up the acronym MAT-D
What are Monarchy, Aristocracy, Tyranny, and Democracy?
The group of three leaders that tasked themselves with leading Rome
What are the Triumvirates?
Finish this equation: ______ vs ______ x ___=Punic Wars
What is Rome vs Carthage x 3 = Punic Wars?
This concept was introduced by the Gupta Empire and helps to represent a "void" in many aspects of life
What is the concept of zero (the number zero)?
This assessment ensured that Chinese government officials were qualified to hold office
What is the Civil Service System?
Three ways in which people can become enslaved to Greeks
What are being born into slavery, being captured in war, or by failing to pay back loans and debts?
The name taken by Octavian after his defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra
Who is Augustus?
Led the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War
Who is Athens?
Born again
What is reincarnation?
A philosophy that encapsulated facets of both Confucianism and Taoism
What is yin and yang?
The sea directly to the right of the Greek Peninsula (and it's NOT the Mediterranean)
What is the Aegean Sea?
Having been used for rituals, court proceeedings, and a hall of the Gods, this Roman ancient Roman structure still stands today as a temple of the Catholic Church
What is the Pantheon?
This leader led 300 Spartans against Xerxes at the Battle of Thermopylae
Who is King Leonidas?
The underlying principles of Buddhism, with one providing a foundation for the other.
What are the 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to Enlightenment?
One of the dynasties of ancient China
What is the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han dynasty?
Phillip of Macedonia's ultimate goal after uniting all of Greece
What is to conquer Persia?
The Twelve Tables encoded the principle of
What is innocent until proven guilty?
Winning battles in these two places gave the Greeks control of the Aegean Sea over the Persians
What are Marathon and Salamis?