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Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient India
Ancient Greece/Ancient Rome
Ancient China
100
The form of writing used in Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
100
An ancient Egyptian ruler
What is a pharaoh?
100
A religion started by a prince named Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
100
A form of government in which all citizens have a share in the running of the government
What is a democracy?
100
Also known as the Huang He River
What is the Yellow River?
200
Named for the area where flooding created good soil for farming
What is the fertile crescent
200
A boy king in Egypt
Who is King Tutankhamen?
200
A system developed in India under the Aryan people that placed people in groups according to their status in society.
What is the caste system?
200
An oligarchy
What is one form of government in which a few people hold power?
200
an army made from red clay for the tomb of Qin Shi Huang
What is the Terracotta Army?
300
chosen by the gods and wrote a code of laws
Who is King Hammurabi
300
Ancient Egyptian writing
What are hieroglyphs?
300
The process of being reborn over and over again
What is reincarnation?
300
A battle between the two powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, that lasted almost 30 years.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
When an emperor was given the power to rule by the gods.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
400
The first group from Mesopotamia to invent writing
Who are Sumerians?
400
Worshipping many gods
What is polytheism?
400
Belief in Brahman, the universal spirit behind everything; Over 3,000 years old
What is Hinduism?
400
The nation that eventually became the Roman Republic began on the Tiber River in what modern-day country?
What is Italy?
400
China's first great thinker and teacher
Who is Confucius?
500
Terraced gardens built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
500
The world's longest river, flows from south to north, and a precious resource for Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
500
Where the first civilization in India began (river valley)
What is the Indus River?
500
The beginning of the Roman Empire was thought to have occurred in 44BC after the death of which ruler?
Who is Julius Caeser?
500
the longest lasting dynasty (1046 BC to 256 BC)
What is the Zhou Dynasty?