Early Civilizations
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called ...
What is Mesopotamia?
The way Egyptians prepared their dead people for the afterlife
What is mummification?
The natural barrier between India and China.
What are the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau?
The two most famous city-states of Ancient Greece
What are Athens and Sparta?
The first monotheistic religion
What is Judaism?
Sumerian Hero of the first Epic Poem.
Who was Gilgamesh?
The living god and ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
The rigid social hierarchy of Vedic India.
What is the caste system?
The kind of government that Athens had
What is direct democracy?
A religion that arose in Ancient India because it rejected the caste system and offered everyone enlightenment.
What is Buddhism?
The first code of laws, carved onto stone columns
What is Hammurabi's code?
The first female pharaoh who built monuments and tombs
Who is Hatshepsut?
The prescription the Buddha gave for a good life: to follow the Eight.
What is the Eight Fold Path?
The leader who cut the Gordian Knot and then conquered all of Greece and Persia and most of the known world
Who is Alexander the Great?
An offshoot of Judaism that started around 33 CE.
What is Christianity?
The technology the Sumerians used to control the unpredictable flooding of the rivers and bring water to crops
What is an irrigation system?
They were built during the Old Kingdom, next to the Sphinx
What are the Pyramids?
The lowest caste of the Varna system- they call themselves "the oppressed"
Who are the Untouchables - the Dalits?
The father of Alexander the Great
Who is King Philip of Macedonia?
The general name of the Religion that believes in the Vedas, karma, dharma and reincarnation
What is Hinduism?
Babylonians wrote this language on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Besides irrigation, the most important gift of the Nile for Egyptians was this.
What is trade - on papyrus boats?
The beloved ruler of the Mauryan empire who foreswore violence and led a Golden Age
Who was Ashoka?
An Ancient Greek philosopher who was put to death for questioning too much
Who is Socrates?
Siddhartha Gautama said: to end suffering, one must end desires. This was started.
What is Buddhism - the Four Noble Truths?