Stone Ages or Ancient Laws
"If a son has struck his father, they shall cut off his hand. If a nobleman has destroyed the eye of a member of the aristocracy, they shall destroy his eye"
What is Hammurabi's Code
The title of an ancient Egyptian leader
What is a pharaoh?
This belief, central to Chinese governance, asserts that rulers are granted the right to rule by the gods and can lose this right if they are unjust.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The form of government created in Athens which allowed adult male citizens to vote
What is a democracy?
The two rivers, which flowed through the heart of Mesopotamia, was essential for irrigation and agriculture
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What is the Paleolithic Era (Old-Stone Age)
The main river that flows through Egypt and 10 other countries in Africa
What is the Nile River?
The ancient Chinese belief system, which focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality, named after its founder.
What is Confucianism?
This ancient Greek city-state was known for its democratic government and its cultural contributions to philosophy, art, and science
What is Athens?
This Babylonian king is famous for creating a set of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
The period of the domestication of animals and growing of crops first occurred in
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This system of writing, used by ancient Egyptians, employed pictures and symbols to represent sounds and ideas
What is hieroglyphics?
This philosophy, associated with the Qin Dynasty, emphasized strict laws and harsh punishments to maintain order in society.
What is Legalism?
The name for the earliest Greeks on the island of Crete
Who are the Minoans?
This Mesopotamian writing system, used by the Sumerians, was one of the earliest forms of writing, involving wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is cunieform?
________ refers to the period before writing was invented.
What is prehistory?
The dominant religion in India
What is Hinduism?
This cyclical concept in Chinese history describes the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties, based on the legitimacy granted by the Mandate of Heaven.
What is the Dynastic Circle?
The order of the three great Greek philosophers from oldest to youngest
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
(Socrates taught Plato, then Plato taught Aristotle)
This famous Mesopotamian epic, written in Akkadian, tells the story of a king’s quest for immortality and is considered one of the oldest works of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
In the Middle East during Neolithic times, what development established permanent settlement in communities; The biggest transition from the Paleolithic Age to Neolithic Age
What is agriculture/farming?
This major river, flowing through present-day India and Pakistan, provided water and fertile soil for the early Indians
What is the Indus River?
The two main rivers of China; The Yangtze River and ______
What is the Yellow River/Huang He River?
Sparta won this war, defeating Athens, and ending Athens domination of the Greek world
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This 3rd millennium BCE king of the Akkadian Empire created one of the world’s first empires by uniting the city-states of Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?