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Mesopotamia
Egyptians
Ancient India
Hebrews
Gupta and Maurya Empire
100
The two rivers that ran through the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
Daily Double: Famous female pharaoh who took over after her husbands death.
Who is Hatshepsut?
100
The religion that evolved into Hinduism.
What is Brahmanism?
100
The Hebrew place of worship.
What is a synagogue?
100
The name of the leader of the Gupta Empire.
What is Ashoka
200
In ancient Sumer they traded like this:people exchange goods for other goods, not money.
What is Barter.
200
Name for the "desert" part of Egypt.
What is the Red Land?
200
This is the idea that you come back in a new body after your death, until you reach perfection.
What is reincarnation?
200
A collection of Jewish oral teaching, and commentaries written down to be studied.
What is the Talmud?
200
These were written on pillars around the Gupta Empire.
What are edicts.
300
This is ancient Sumerian writing done with wedges making marks in clay.
What is Cuneiform.
300
The land south of Egypt. They wanted Egypt's natural recources.
What is Nubia?
300
This is a set of fixed social classes that you could not move out of during your lifetime.
What is caste system?
300
Term for Hebrew leader that rallied their people for war and could make wise decisions. Ruth was one of them.
What is a judge?
300
Chandragupta's adviser and right hand man?
Who is Kautilya?
400
This is the leader who came up with a strict code of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This is the science the Egyptians learned about during the process of making mummies.
What is anatomy?
400
This is the holy book of the Aryan people.
What is the Vedas?
400
Who do the Hebrew, Muslim and Christians all share as a father in faith
Who is Abraham?
400
The religion Ashoka turned to.
What is Buddhism?
500
This is the name of a famous Mesopotamian hero who had a poem written about him and his sidekick.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
Meroe, a city in the land south of Egypt was known for what type of craftsmanship?
What is metal work.
500
Daily double: This is the law that dictates whether you will come back as a lower or higher life form.
What is Karma?
500
Word for the spread of the Hebrew people throughout the world
What is diaspora?
500
Chandragupta let these people rule over provinces.
What is a governor?