Mesopotamia
Two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This geographic feature is the reason for Egypt's success with resources, crops, and trading.
What is the Nile River?
These early invaders of India spread their ideas of a strict social class system and a universal spirit called Brahman.
Who are the Aryans?
He is known as the father of both Judaism and Christianity.
Who is Abraham?
What is isolating or isolation?
This goddess was named as Athen's protector.
Who is Athena?
This leader was assassinated because of the Senate fearing his gaining too much power.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Rule by small group
What is an oligarchy?
This is the land feature in which Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Egyptian religion focused mainly on this.
What is the afterlife or continuity?
This river's civilization was the FIRST to flourish during India's history.
The Indus River Valley
He is the most well known and most popular king in Israel's history and was also a shepherd, musician, and warrior who defeated both a giant and led the Israelite army to defeat the Philistines.
Who was King David?
This was arguably the most important and most popular Chinese invention causing trade routes to be named for it.
What is silk?
Athens was the first in the ancient world to have rule by its citizens, known as this type of government.
What is democracy?
This leader won battles against Mark Antony and Cleopatra to become the first Roman emperor and was responsible for a 300 year period of peace.
Who is Caesar Augustus?
What is a city-state?
This was the first written set of laws by a Babylonian king.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The discovery of this Egyptian pharaoh's tomb in 1922 made him or her the most famous throughout the modern world.
Who is King Tutankhamun?
These were the outcasts of Indian society because they had not followed dharma (the rules of their social caste) in a former life.
Who were the Dalits?
These were the main written laws of the Israelites.
What are the Ten Commandments?
These two geographical features were the location in which Chinese civilization first developed.
The Yellow (Huang He) and the Yangtze Rivers.
This philosopher was known for using questions to teach his students, but was distrusted, and eventually arrested, tried and executed for that teaching method.
Who is Socrates?
This religious leader claimed to be the son of God, was born in Nazareth in Judea, and was later executed due to a false accusation that he was plotting to overthrow the Romans in Jerusalem.
Who was Jesus?
A group of people living in a different location than their home country.
What is a colony?
These two inventions led to Mesopotamian city-states trading with each other.
What are the sail and the wheel?
If an Egyptian's heart was weighed as light as Ma'at's feather of truth, then the person would go on to this afterlife location.
The afterlife or "Field of Reeds" to farm forever.
This process was a person's spirit being released into a new body or sometimes to become one with Brahman, the universal spirit.
What is reincarnation?
Moses led the Israelites from their slavery in Egypt into this.
What is the Promised Land or land God promised to them?
He was an influential leader in China whose ideas centered around leaders' responsibilities, family relationships and filial piety.
Who is Confucius?
Most Greek city-states were located near a sea and used this type of trade more than any other.
What is maritime trade or trade over water?
This leader split the Roman Empire into two parts: Eastern and Western. He named the Eastern capital city after himself, and later converted to Christianity because of a vision of a cross during battle.
Who was Constantine?
The spread of Greek language, culture, arts, and ideas to other areas of the ancient world due to Alexander the Great's conquests.
What is hellenism?
The event which led to the ending of hunter/gatherers and the beginning of Mesopotamia as the first civilization.
What is the agricultural revolution?
These are the large tombs that housed the pharaoh's body, sarcophagus, and all the things needed for the journey into the afterlife.
What is a pyramid?
This force decided if a person who lived in ancient India would be reincarnated into a higher or lower caste.
What is karma?
The number of times the Israelites were captured and forced into slavery.
What is two?
This Chinese leader (1) united all Chinese provinces by a powerful army (2) used the philosophy of legalism to rule, and (3) is the person for whom China is named.
Who is Qin Shi Huang Di?
Who are the Spartans?
The murder of many emperors, political corruption, armies stealing food from Roman farms, and a foreign army destroying Rome led to this.
What is the fall (or end) of the Roman Empire?
What two things do Hammurabi's code of laws and Rome's Twelve Tables have in common?
They were both sets of laws thatwritten on stone and were displayed in public for everyone to see.