Ancient River Valley
What were the pyramids?
Tombs for the pharaohs
What was the role of the Brahmins in the Hindu caste system of ancient India?
Priests
Which contribution did Augustus make to ancient Rome?
Starting the Roman Empire
A trade route that connected the Roman empire to China.
The Silk Road
Where was the oldest civilization, Sumer, located?
Mesopotamia
Ancient River Valley civilizations all believed in many gods, which means they were ___________.
Polytheistic
What Buddhist principle most influenced the rule of Asoka the Great?
nonviolence
Writing the 10 Commandments
The basic idea of this philosophy is that people are bad and selfish and if we want to make good things happen, we have to control them.
Legalism
The Agricultural Revolution is also called the...
Neolithic Era
Which Egyptian Pharaoh is famous because his tomb was found intact, enabling historians to study it?
King Tut
How did Emperor Asoka spread Buddhism throughout India and East Asia?
By sending missionaries to teach the Dharma
Which philosopher created the method where a series of questions leads to an answer?
Socrates
Which ruler completed the Great Wall and unified China?
Decade is 10 years. Century is 100 years. CE is Common Era. AD is ...
Anno Domini
A wedge-shaped writing in clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Which religion was spread throughout the Indian subcontinent by the Maurya Dynasty?
Buddhism
Which Roman invention enabled them to construct large buildings?
What long-term effect did the Ming Dynasty's decision to limit foreign trade have?
The silk road declined
Phoenicians are famous for their....?
Ships and alphabet
Famous female pharaoh that dressed as a male and was erased from history
Hatshepsut
Confucianism emphasizes responsibility to _______ and __________.
family and society
Which Hellenistic Greek thinker was the first to calculate the rough value of pi?
Archimedes
This established the idea that a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods. Natural disasters and famines were signs the dynasty had lost favor with the gods.
The most famous hominid female skeleton was named....?
Lucy