Unit 1 Civilizations
This group of people were seminomadic and built the Megaliths.
Who are the Indoeuropeans?
This is the country where Judaism originated.
What is the United Kingdom of Isreal?
He is the founder of the Mauryan Empire.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
These are the mountains that lie at the northern border of India and cuts the country off from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
This ethnic group established the Caste System in Indian society.
Bonus: Why did they do this?
Who are the Aryans?
This group of people are the best sailors and traders of the ancient world.
Bonus: Who inspired their writing system?
Who are the Phonecians?
Bonus: Ancient Egyptians
This is the name of the god in Judaism.
Who is Yahweh?
This is the name for the Aryan chieftain and means "prince".
Bonus: Which class does he belong to?
What is Raja?
Bonus: Kshatriya
These are the two largest cities in the Indus river valley civilization.
Bonus: How did they protect themselves from attack?
What is Harappa and Mohenja-Daro ?
Bonus: build thick city walls
This class within the Caste System had limited rights, worked as laborers, and mostly comprised of the indigenous population.
Who are the Sudras?
This group of people were known for their warfare because "used terror as a instrument of warfare" and had an engineering unit in their army.
This Anicient Persian religion introduced the idea of good vs. evil.
Bonus: Name the god in this religion.
What is Zoroastricism?
Bonus: Ahura Mazda
Indians sold these goods during the Mauryan empire?
Bonus: Name what they used for money before coins were introduced.
What is spices jewels and textiles?
Bonus: cowry shells
Indus River valley is in the location of this modern day country.
What is Pakistan?
This is the priest and warrior castes, respectively.
What is Brahmin and Kshatriya castes?
This group of people are credited with discovering iron and making the first iron weapons.
Who are the Hittites?
This is the name for a person who delivers special messages from god.
What is a prophet?
The founder of the Mauryan empire was most afraid of this.
Bonus: name something he did as a result of this fear.
What is Assassination?
Bonus: Never slept in the same bed twice/ required all food to be tasted in his presence.
This theory about the fall of Indus river valley civilizaiton has been disproven.
Bonus: Why has it been disproven?
What is attack from Aryans?
Bonus: Time discrepancy of 400 years between the end of the Indus River Valley civilization and when the Aryans arrived.
Within the Caste System, there is this amount of social mobility.
Bonus: Name the only example of social mobility in the Caste system.
What is zero or none?
Bonus: Marrying a man one caste above you.
This Ancient leader allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem when he found them in Babylon.
Bonus: Anicent Persia spanned across which continents during its height?
Who is "Cyrus the great"?
Bonus: Europe, Asia and Africa
This is the term for the agreement between the Jews and their god in Judaism.
Bonus: Explain this agreement.
What is a covenant?
Bonus: Jews will abide by 613 commandments and Yahweh will protect them.
A brilliant court official of the Mauryan empire by the name of Kautilya wrote this treatise on politics and how to rule.
What is the Arthashastra?
Indus river valley had pottery sculptures of these types of things.
Bonus: (True/false) Indus Valley Civilization's writing has NOT been deciphered by historians.
What are females and animals?
Bonus: True
These are neighborhoods where extended families live together and are all the same castes and work in the same or related industries.
What are Jatis?