Ancient Civilizations
This civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
This Greek city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This trade route connected China to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This social system organized medieval Europe into lords, vassals, and peasants.
What is feudalism?
The annual flooding of this river helped Egyptian civilization thrive.
What is the Nile River?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized respect for elders and social harmony.
What is Confucianism?
This Roman period of peace lasted about 200 years.
What is Pax Romana?
Mansa Musa ruled this wealthy West African empire.
What is Mali?
This document limited the power of the English king in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This written law code was created by a Babylonian king.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This religion teaches belief in one God and traces its origins to Abraham.
What is Judaism?
This Chinese ruler unified China and began construction projects like the Great Wall.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
This deadly disease spread along trade routes in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread knowledge across Europe
What is the printing press?
This farming innovation allowed civilizations to grow crops in dry areas.
What is irrigation?
This belief in the cycle of rebirth is central to Hinduism.
What is reincarnation?
The spread of Greek culture after Alexander the Great’s conquests is called this.
What is Hellenization?
This African trade network exchanged gold and salt across the Sahara Desert.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and is often considered the ideal Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Explain one reason why early civilizations developed near rivers.
What is access to water, transportation, fertile soil, or trade?
According to Buddhism, followers seek to achieve this state by ending suffering.
What is enlightenment (nirvana)?
This Roman document, first written around 450 BCE, established one of the earliest systems of written laws.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This religion spread throughout North and West Africa through Trans-Saharan trade.
What is Islam?
This German monk challenged Church practices by publishing the Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?