Africa
This river's large floodplain allowed a complex society to arise in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This Chinese belief system focused on practical teachings about duty and how to treat other people, not on theological or metaphysical ideas.
What is Confucianism?
This Sumerian hero had been a king of a city-state in 2750 BCE, and his accomplishments and epic adventures expanded into Mesopotamian mythology and folklore.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is a mix of different cultures or nations ruled over by a centralized government, usually spread over a large territory.
What is an empire?
The fertile land around these two rivers facilitated the growth of complex agricultural societies in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
At the end of the period known as the Middle Kingdom, this society invaded Egypt, captured Memphis, and ruled the country for over 100 years.
Who are the Hyksos?
In ancient India, Harrapan society developed agriculture and urban centers on the banks and in the valley of this river.
What is the Indus River?
This Achaemenid ruler divided the empire into 23 districts and greatly expanded its borders by conquest as well.
Who is Darius?
What is bronze?
What are cats?
Thanks to the migration and conquests of this people group starting around 3000 BC, millions of people in Africa still speak a language of this language family.
What is Bantu?
This means management and rule by hierarchical authority among many offices and by fixed procedures. This allowed for consistency in law, taxation, and other aspects of governance.
What is bureaucracy?
This religion was especially popular during Achaemenid and Sassanid control of Persia.
What is Zoroastrianism?
When Maya society was at its height, this was the most powerful and influential of the Maya city-states.
What is Tikal?
Messengers along the Persian Royal Road would persevere, not stopped "by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness." Accounts of their determination inspired the unofficial motto of this modern day organization.
What is the U.S. Postal Service OR U.S. Mail?
This female Pharaoh co-ruled with her stepson. Many monuments show her wearing the same type of stylized (false) beard that other Pharaohs wore.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This is the term for a stereotyped and distorted view of the Middle East or Asia, which sometimes mixes together various eastern cultures and portrays them as an exotic "other."
What is Orientalism?
The Achaemenids appointed these people to rule different regions of their empire.
What are satraps?
These dominant types of societies tended to be expansionist, have complex religious traditions, and a high cultural output. They left a lasting historical significant and greatly influenced later societies.
What are classical societies?
What is Sanskrit?
This kingdom was on the Nile River, south of Egypt. It had a similar level of power and complexity in the 2000 BCE, but was not as prosperous as Egypt.
What is Nubia?
These societies were not sedentary, but they relied on sedentary urban societies to trade for many manufactured goods. Sometime these societies created technologies as well that they then traded to sedentary societies.
What are pastoral nomads?
This person conquered many Sumerian city-states in the 2300s BCE. He created one of the first empires, financed by demanding tribute and taxing trade between cities.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
This complex society thrived in Mesoamerica before the Maya. In a sense, the Maya achievements built on their cultural and technological foundations.
Who are the Olmec?
This Chinese philosopher interpreted the words of Confucius. He was a strong believer in the importance of justice, and he believe human nature tended toward goodness.
Who is Mencius?