Mesopotamia
This is the purposeful cultivation of crops.
What is agriculture?
This Egyptian system of writing using pictures and symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
These artifacts helped historians uncover the existence of the Harappan civilization.
What are seals?
This religious/ethical system is centered on "the way."
What is Daoism?
This age followed the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations around 1177 BCE.
What are the Dark Ages?
Historians call this place the first city.
What is Uruk?
What are pyramids?
What is dharma?
This political theory emphasized strict enforcement of laws and suppression of history and scholarship.
What is legalism?
Solon and Cleithenes implemented reforms that solidified this political system in ancient Athens.
What is democracy?
The suzerain-vassal treaty model seems to have been used in the recording of what morality code from ancient Israel.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Palette of Namer depicts what event.
What is the unification of Egypt?
In Hinduism, this concept is the unchanging eternal reality of the universe.
What is brahman?
These were keyhole-shaped tombs in Japan, often covered with haniwa, clay statues of animals or people.
What are kofun?
What is Persia?
This the wedge-shaped writing used in the Ancient Near East.
What is cuneiform?
Egyptians considered this part of the soul the life force of the individual.
What is the ka?
The Four Noble Truths state that ______ is the root of suffering.
What is desire?
In China, this political concept gave legitimacy to a particular ruler's claim to power.
What is the mandate of heaven?
These enslaved people were "owned" by Sparta itself, not individual people.
Who are the helots?
This artifact shows a Mesopotamian culture at war and at peace and prosperity.
What is the Standard of Ur?
During the Amarna Period, Akhenaten implemented this religious system.
What is state monotheism?
These texts were a reaction against the Vedas, which focused on fire sacrifices and offerings.
What are the Upanishads?
What is the Qin dynasty?
Homer's epics glorified excellence in battle or in oration, also called this.
What is arete?