The two rivers that gave life to the first human civilizations. Region that held Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
The time period before humans cultivated crops and domesticated animals is known by historians as this.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
100
The name of the 200 year period of peace starting in 37 BCE when the Roman Empire was ruled by Augustus Octavian.
What is the Pax Romana?
100
This great ruler established the Greek Empire and pushed its boundaries all the way into northern India
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
Refers to the worship of multiple gods. Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and the early Americans were all this.
What is polytheistic?
200
The sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa lay along this river. The two cities hint at a large, connected civilization that was home to thousands of people because of their size and identical architecture.
What is the Indus River in India?
200
These were two major results of agriculture and settled societies.
What is
What are ...
-creation of society
-codification of laws
-population growth
-domestication of animals
-construction of empires
-world religions
-trade
200
On this date, 476 CE, after continued attacks by Goths and internal discord, this significant event happened to the Roman Empire.
What is the fall of Rome?
200
This Babylonian ruler was responsible for the codification of law in Mesopotamia. He was famous for basing these rules off of the policy of retaliation. They laws were full of discrimination against women and lower class.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
A Confucian concept, it was first adopted by the Zhou dynasty to justify the fall of the Shang and their own rise to power.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
The Yellow River in the Huang He valley gave these two early dynasties the resources necessary for building and maintaining civilization in ancient China.
What were the Shang and the Zhou
300
The Roman Empire, Han China, the four Perisan Dynasties, and the Mauryan dynasty in India, existing roughly between 600 BCE and 600 CE are civilizations that make up this period of human history.
What are the Classical Civilizations?
300
In 206 BCE, Liu Bang established this Chinese Dynasty.
What is the Han dynasty?
300
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Originally a king during the period of the Warring States in China, he united all of china to become the third Chinese Dynasty. The dynasty bears his name.
Who was Qin ShiHuangdi?
300
Samsara, Moksha, and Karma, along with the concept of Brahman - the universal soul, are all teachings of this, one of the world's oldest religions.
What is Hinduism?
400
This unique feature gave the Indus river and the people settling around it an advantage when compared to the other early river civilizations.
What is predictable flooding?
400
Between 403 B.C.E and 221 B.C.E. in China, just prior to the rise of the Qin empire, the region was encompassed in a period of internal discord know as this.
What is the Period of the Warring States?
400
Cyrus, the first ruler of the Achaemenid Dynasty in Persia, came to power in this century.
What is the 6th century BCE?
400
In early civilizations, males were the dominant political leaders and women were expected to be subservient. In Egypt, the queen Hatshepsut, who reigned 1473 - 1458 BCE, broke away from this common social theme.
What is patriarchal?
400
The three prominent religions or schools of thought that came during the early classical period in China.
What were Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism?
500
Along this river, the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom rose, as well as a large civilization called Nubia.
What is the Nile River?
500
This dynasty in India was in power between the years of 320 - 550 CE.
What is the Gupta Dynasty?
500
The Punic Wars, a series of conflicts that culminated in Rome destroying Carthage, a north African kingdom, lasted about 80 years and began in this century.
What is the 3rd century BCE?
500
He was the leader of the Persian Empire, a follower of Zoastrianism, and remembered as a peaceful and tolerant leader. His decree allowed the Jews to return to the land now recognized as the state of Israel.
Who was Cyrus?
500
This, the 4th Buddhist Noble Truth, is the way to escape desire and attachment, and thus end suffering