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Mesopotamia
100
These geometrical structures were tombs for the pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
100
This "colorful" river was an important part of Chinese agriculture.
What is the Yellow River?
100
Add a hump to a horse, and you get this animal important for long-distance trading.
What is a camel?
100
This 4-tiered social system was used in India for centuries.
What are castes?
100
This is the nickname for the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This postmortem process was first used for pharaohs only, but eventually everyone did it (including cats)
What is mummification?
200
If you want to make this exclusive luxury fabric, you'll need a lot of worms and mulberry leaves.
What is silk?
200
In the 20th century these were discovered in a Qin emperor's tomb.
What are terra-cotta warriors?
200
This priestly class was at the top of the South Asian caste system.
What are Brahmans?
200
This city was where Gilgamesh lived and ruled.
What is Uruk?
300
This grainy beverage was an important part of daily life - in fact, you were paid with it!
What is beer?
300
This concept was how Chinese dynasties legitimized their rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
This metal was important during Period 1 and was the title of an age of history.
What is Bronze?
300
He founded a major religion which inherited Hinduism's idea of karma but dispense with castes.
Who is Buddha? (or Siddhartha Gautama)
300
This Mesopotamian society said that the world would end if they lost a battle.
Who are Assyrians?
400
This (time period) Egyptian kingdom is when most of the pyramids were constructed.
What is the Old Kingdom?
400
He came up with many important Chinese ideas, and his teachings were collected into Analects.
Who is Confucius?
400
He was the monster killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
Who is Humbaba/Humwawa?
400
These pre-Aryan twin Indian cities had a nearly identical grid layout.
What are Harappa & Mohenjo-daro?
400
This Babylonian ruler had laws that were written on steles all over his kingdom.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
The pharaoh Akhenaten created this god and made everyone worship it. He was not a popular guy (the god or Akhenaten)
Who is Aten?
500
The beginnings of this religion came from a gatekeeper, who said he was told about it by ox-riding Lao Tsu.
What is Daoism?
500
These cereal grains were the first cultivated in the Fertile Crescent (name 1)
What are wheat/barley?
500
These were Buddhist figures who could have achieved Nirvana, but decided to stay on earth to help others with their spiritual journeys.
What are Bodhisattvas?
500
These traders originally came up with the writing system that would evolve into the English alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?