Religions
The religion of the Persian Empire.
What is Zoroastrianism?
What is farming/agriculture?
Both Egypt and Mesopotamia had this kind of religion.
What is Polytheism.
The Hebrews had the first religion of this kind.
What is monotheism?
This river runs in the Northwest of India and supported early Indian Civilization
What is the Indus River?
The class of people on top of the caste system.
What are Brahmin? (Also: What are priests/intellectuals?)
Before humans were primarily farmers, they did this to get food.
The world's first written language.
What is Cuneiform?
This emperor freed the Jewish people from slavery in Babylon.
Who is Cyrus?
This religion is followed by the majority of people in India today and believes in one god with many forms.
What is Hinduism?
The Indian religion that rejects the Caste system.
What is Buddhism?
The name for the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The reason why the Egyptians built the Pyramids.
What are tombs for Pharaohs?
This empire is known for its tolerance and for being the largest empire of its kind.
What was the Persian Empire?
The name of the two most important Indus Valley Cities.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
The names of the Jewish holy book.
What is the Torah?
The first true civilization to emerge.
What was Sumer/Mesopotamia?
The name for the Egyptian practice of embalming dead bodies.
What is mummification?
The Phoenicians invented these two things.
What are purple dye and the alphabet?
This group was considered to be at the bottom of the caste system and was rejected from society.
What are untouchables?
The Hindu name for the cycle of reincarnation.
What is Samsara?
One of the oldest neolithic sites in the world. It did not have roads, only houses and traversable roofs.
What was Catalhoyuk?
This was invented by the Egyptians for writing on.
What is papyrus?
This person is considered to be the founder of Judaism.
This group of people brought Hinduism and Sanskrit to India.
Who are the Indo-Aryans/Europeans?