Locations
Primary Sources
Mediterranean and Middle East
East Asia
South Asia
100
Point to Greece
please get this one right :)
100
The city spoken about in this passage: "The city itself is crisscrossed by streets that are wide enough for riding horses and driving chariots, and intersected by two main roads very much broader than the others. Its streets and avenues cut across each other at right angles."
What is Alexandria?
100
This is often the area of an empire where connections are densest; the "heartland" of an empire
What is the core?
100
The most sought after commodity in long-distance trade.
What is silk?
100
Name ONE reason why Buddhism is considered a world religion
What is not tied to a specific place, benefits from political support, easily spread?
200
Where the Silk Road started
Where is East Asia?
200
The context of this passage: "Brahmins maintain that only they are the highest [varna], and the others are below them. They are white, the others black; only they are pure, and not the others. Only they are the true sons of Brahma, born from his mouth, born of Brahma, creation of Brahma, heirs of Brahma. Now what does the worthy Gautama say to that?"
What is Brahmans being the highest on the caste system, Brahman rejection of non-caste success, Buddhist belief in equality?
200
Name the three major Greek philosophers in order.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
200
This is often used to justify the power of a ruler and gives citizens the power to overthrow its ruler.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
Name ONE of the 4 truths of Buddhism.
What is life is full of suffering, all suffering is caused by desire, the only way to rise above suffering is to renounce desire, adherence to the Noble Eightfold Path.
300
What is Anatolia?
300
the primary and secondary occupations in the Han dynasty
What are merchants and farmers?
300
Name two features of a Hellenistic city.
What are theaters, agoras, museums, gymnasiums, pynxes?
300
The term used to describe the many philosophies that came out of East Asia during the Axial Age
What is the Hundred Schools of Thought?
300
This is the warrior caste of the varna system.
What are kshatriyas?
400
Where Julius Ceasar invaded and accrued wealth from
Where is Gaul?
400
The names of those who argued against the monopolies in "The Debate of Salt and Iron"
Who are liberati?
400
This is the sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
What is the Avesta?
400
Name one result of the Pax Sinica
What is Han dynasty expanded Westward OR higher standard of living?
400
Where Asoka Maurya usually placed his edicts.
What are the borders of the empire?
500
What is Bactria?
500
This was said by the Zhou about the ruler of this dynasty "He has been abandoned to drunkenness, and reckless in lust. He has dared to exercise cruel oppression. Along with criminals he has punishment all their relatives. He has put men into offices on the hereditary principle."
Who is the Shang ruler?
500
Dr.Hausse used this city as a far off example of Hellenism.
What is Ai Khanoum?
500
The book of Daoism
What is The Daodejing: Book of the Way and Its Power?
500
Argued that god was a universal concept rather than superhuman
Who were the Upanishads?