Unit 1
The fertile crescent
What is the cradle of civilization
Pharaohs had absolute or unlimited power
What is the difference between Egyptian Pharaohs and Mesopatmian Kings?
Rome
What is a city in Italy
The founder of Islam
What is Muhammad
A network of Eurasian trade routes
What is the Silk Road
The Euphrates and the Tigris
What are the two Rivers Mesopotamia was developed around
Monotheism
What is the belief of one God
The Punic wars
What are the wars fought between Rome and Carthage
The founder of Christanity
What is Jesus
Goods traded on the Silk road
What is silk, spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool, precious metals, and ideas
Cuneiform
What is the Sumerian writing form
Ra
What is the Egyptian sun God
The Roman Law code
What is the 12 tables
The rules followers of Islam live by
What are the 5 pillars
From the second century BCE until the mid-15th century
What is the Silk Road period
Ziggurat
What is a Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called
Empire
What is a form of government that is always looking to expand by military force and gaining more resources?
Carthage was located on the continent of?
What is Africa
The rules followers of Buddhism live by
What is the Eightfold Path
A system of caravan routes of ancient times and in the Middle Ages which connected Asia with the Mediterranean and European world
What is the purpose of the Silk Road
Why did the first civilizations establish themselves around rivers
So they could have a constant water supply for agriculture, and all other living things.
What happened in the Egyptian myth of Osiris and Isis?
Osiris was king and he had a very jealous brother Seth that killed him and then threw his body into the river in pieces. But then Isis found his body, collected it all up, and then mummified him. And then he came back as the God of the underworld starting the practice of mummifying dead kings and pharaohs.
What does the myth of Romulus and Remus teach us about the desired character of Roman citizens?
It mainly shows how to overcome adversity because they were left to die as babies and then taken care of by a wolf
List and define the "4 Noble Truths" in Buddhism.
1 the truth of suffering, 2 the truth of the cause of suffering, 3 the truth of the end of suffering, and 4 the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.