This modern day country was home to the ancient Persians.
What is Iran?
100
This was the time of conflict and civil war that posed a threat to China's basic values.
What was the Warring States Period?
100
This is the goal of Hinduism.
What is moksha?
100
These are the two ways that an empire can impose force upon a people
What are dominance and hegemony?
100
This group migrated from the Caucasus region and moved across Europe, the Middle East and into India
Who were the Indo-Europeans
200
This "Great" leader of Persia used hegemony to help expand the empire.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
200
He was a Chinese scholar who believed that order would be restored by creating a government of well-educated moral leaders who would help order society around five basic relationships.
What was Confucius?
200
He was isolated in a palace for 29 years before starting his path to Enlightenment.
Who was Siddartha Gautama?
200
Sennacherib was a king of this empire that used a very powerful military and cruel tactics to expand across Mesopotamia
What is Assyria?
200
These people from modern day Lebanon developed the first "phonetic" alphabet.
Who were the Phoenicians?
300
After conquering Mesopotamia, the Persians allowed this group to return to Jerusalem.
Who were the Hebrews?
300
This Chinese thinker believed that order would come to China if people stopped trying to fix things.
Who was Laozi?
300
This is the area of Palestine promised to the Hebrew people by God.
What is Canaan?
300
After the fall of Egyptian Empire, this group from Numbia ruled Egypt until they were defeated by the Assyrians
Who are the Kushites?
300
The Hittites from Anatolia had a powerful military because they developed weapons from this metal.
What is iron?
400
He was the son of Cyrus who conquered Egypt but ruled ineffectively.
Who was Cambyses?
400
Shi Huangdi used legalism to create this powerful empire.
What was the Qin Dynasty?
400
Following one's dharma provides good karma which brings one closer to moksha where the atman unites with this.
What is Brahman?
400
After the fall of the Assyrians, the Chaldeans made this city in Mesopotamia one of the greatest in the world.
What is Babylon?
400
Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra are elements of this system introduced by the Aryans to India
What is the caste system?
500
Darius I helped stabilize the Persian empire by dividing the large empire into these administrative units.
What are satrapies?
500
The form of government where the rule has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner.
What is an autocracy?
500
This contains the first five books of the Hebrew or Jewish bible.
What is the Torah?
500
This group used chariots to conquer Egypt, bringing an end to the "Middle Kingdom."
Who were the Hyksos?
500
He was the legendary king of the Minoan civilization.