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This was the Persian leader who founded and led the historically influential Persian Achaemenid Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The Persians were, perhaps, most famous for their Empire’s administrative policies, including the world’s first effective use of a large-scale ____________ government, ran by the emperor, and enforced by provincial appointees.
What is centralized?
This was the state policy practiced by Rome in which conquered peoples could obtain full civil protection and privilege, regardless of their ethnicity or prior political affiliation.
What is Roman Citizenship?
This term is used to describe one’s efforts in the current life impacting their hierarchal placement in the next life.
What is karma?
This was the term used to describe an appointed Persian provincial official that governed according to the policies set forth by the emperor himself.
What is satrap?
This was the practice and approach of Greek philosophers who doubted and questioned authoritative knowledge in favor of that which was observed, demonstrated, or rationalized from logical thinking.
What is skepticism?
This was the name for the set of oral Vedic religions brought by Indo-Aryan invaders around 1500 BCE that dominated the Indian subcontinent; its beliefs were codified by the Vedas by 700 BCE.
What is Hinduism?
This was the founder of Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The Greeks of which city-state were most famous for their successful implementation of a democratic state.
What is Athens?
This was the ruler who began the process of unifying the independent Greek city-states into an empire.
Who is Philip of Macedon?
This is the name for the rigid social hierarchy practiced by adherents of the religion detailed above (as well as the region of South Asia itself).
What is caste system?
This was the first large, centralized empire that unified most of the Indian subcontinent from 332-185 BCE.
What is the Maurya Empire?
This was the series of conflicts between the Roman Republic and their rivals in Carthage during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
What are the Punic Wars?
This was the son of the ruler detailed above who setout on an undefeated expedition that conquered the entire Persian Achaemenid Empire, as well as many polities in Central Asia and the areas of the West Indus Valley and Hindu Kush.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This is the concept which dominates major South and Southeast Asian religions that believes human souls exist in a cycle of death and rebirth, with the ultimate goal being the transcendence of said cycle and its suffering.
What is reincarnation?
This was the ruler of the empire detailed above who sought to spread the teachings of Buddhism throughout his empire from 268-232 BCE.
Who is Ashoka the Great?
This was the name for Roman provincial rulers that carried out the policies of the Roman Republic and Empire.
What is a governor?
Roman _______ were used to provide transportation systems for trade and troop movements within the borders of the Roman Empire.
What are roads?
This term is used to describe the fulfillment of one’s life [caste] duty.
What is dharma?
This was the first large, centralized empire that unified most of the Indian subcontinent from 350-543 CE; it is largely credited by historians with the ushering in of the Golden Age of India.
What is the Gupta Empire?