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who was ashoka?
the third and most famous of the Mauryan emperors, was a professed Buddhist.
what is bantu?
the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
what is gupta?
a common surname of Indian origin
what is polytheism?
the belief in or worship of more than one god.
what is civilization?
the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization.
what is mesopotamia?
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.
what is government?
the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
what is olmec?
prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( c. 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
what is religion?
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
what is monotheism hebrews?
a word that is made up of two Greek words, meaning "one" and "god." It has come to refer to a kind of religion that believes in the existence of only one god and is the opposite in this sense of polytheism, which refers to a religion that has many gods, such as Hinduism.
what is Hammurabi?
Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) Synonyms: Hammurapi Example of: Rex, king, male monarch. a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom.
what is economics?
the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
what is aztec?
the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
what is inca?
the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Its political and administrative structure
what is maya?
the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions.
what is code?
a system of words, letters, figures, or other symbols substituted for other words, letters, etc., especially for the purposes of secrecy.
what is politics?
the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
what is cuneiform?
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
what is hieroglyphics?
enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing.
what is the mauryan empire?
a geographically-extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between 322 BCE and 180 BCE.
what is culture?
the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
what is mediterranean?
a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
what is society?
the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
what is phoenician?
Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.
what is zoroastrianism?
a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.