India
The Maurya and Gupta Empires are associated with this modern day country
What is India?
China's mountainous geography in the west (Himalayas) made it difficult to trade. This created less of this term for interaction among different people.
What is cultural diffusion.
This was the sea used by ancient Greeks to travel, trade and farm.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The present day country in which Rome began.
What is Italy?
I am the mountain range that separates India from China to the north.
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
This major religion migrated from India and became an important part of Chinese and Japanese culture stressing simplicity and a pathway to eliminate life's suffering.
What is Buddhism?
The reason Greece was divided into many city states and not unified.
What are mountains?
The name of the early Roman government giving male citizens the right to vote for representatives in government.
What is a republic?
This weather pattern in India provides heavy rains and winds
What are monsoons?
China became wealthy because of these trade routes linking them with the Middle East and Roman Empire.
What are the Silk Roads?
Pericles' Funeral Oration famously defended this type of government in Greece allowing landowning men to directly vote for political candidates. (5th century CE)
What id direct democracy?
This structures is an architectural wonder in Rome where Gladiators and the "Circus Maximus" made routine performances.
What is the Roman Coliseum?
This system ensured only qualified and competent people became government officials
What is the civil service system?
As a result of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Mediterranean and Middle East in the 4th century BCE, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, and Indian cultures blended to form this new cultural identity.
What is Hellenistic?
This religion, although prosecuted at first, became the official spiritual teachings of the Roman Empire
What is Christianity?
Scholars in the Gupta Empire developed these algebraic concepts in the 6th century BCE?
What is the decimal system and concept of zero?
Greek civilization is considered a Classical civilization because what key cultural developments and advancements. Identify two.
What are Ionia/Dorian Architecture, the Parthenon, direct democracy, stoicism (philosophy), aqueducts, tragic and comedic plays, etc.?
In order to maintain such a large empire, Rome had to do two of the following construction projects and/or cultural advancements.
What are build large aqueducts, roads, fund a well-trained army, display the Twelve Tables of Law in the Forum (marketplace), etc.?