Early Humans and New Ways of Life
What is Africa
This river supported Egyptian farming and provided a major transportation route.
What is the Nile?
This Babylonian king is remembered for a written law collection with penalties that varied by social status.
Who is Hammurabi?
This Indian teacher is associated with the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama? (or the Buddha).
This Greek city developed a democracy in which adult male citizens could participate directly.c
What is Athens?
This general gained extraordinary power after civil war and was assassinated in 44 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This first emperor unified China in 221 BCE and standardized script, currency, weights, and measures.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi? Accept Qin Shi Huang or the First Emperor of Qin.
Roman cities used these engineered channels and bridge structures to bring water from distant sources.
What are aqueducts?
BCE dates get smaller as time moves forward, so what came first: 500 BCE or 200 BCE.
What is 500 BCE?
This country is home to famous cave paintings of horses and hunters.
These two rivers gave Mesopotamia its identity as a land between rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This Egyptian woman ruled as pharaoh and sponsored trade and major construction projects.
Who is Hatshepsut? (or Who is Cleopatra?)
Mahavira taught this religious tradition, known for rigorous nonviolence toward living things.
What is Jainism?
This rival Greek city maintained a militarized society supported by the labor of subordinated helots.
What is Sparta?
Beginning in 27 BCE, he concentrated power while keeping many outward forms of the Roman Republic.
Who is Augustus? (or Octavian or Cesar Augustus)
Gaozu founded this dynasty, which ruled from 206 BCE to 220 CE.
What is the Han Dynasty?
Sumerian scribes used this writing system, characterized by wedge-shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
This network of overland routes linked China with Central Asia and lands farther west, carrying goods and religious ideas.
What is the Silk Road? Accept Silk Roads.
Rather than growing crops, these people obtained food by gathering wild plants and hunting animals
Who are foragers? or Who are Hunter/Gatherers?
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were major cities of this river valley civilization.
What is the Indus Valley civilization? or Harappan civilization.
This founder of the Persian Empire conquered Babylon in 539 BCE.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This Chinese teacher emphasized ethical relationships, cultivated leadership, and filial piety.
Who is Confucius?
This Macedonian king conquered Persia and led campaigns as far as northwestern India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
These three wars against Carthage helped Rome dominate the western Mediterranean.
What are the Punic Wars?
This short-lived dynasty reunited China in 589 CE and expanded the Grand Canal.
What is the Sui Dynasty?
This Greek mathematician organized geometry into a systematic framework of definitions, axioms, and proofs.
Who is Euclid?
Of Alexander's conquests, Augustus's rise, and the beginning of Tang rule, this happened last.
What is the beginning of Tang rule? Accept 618 CE.
This major change in food production supported larger settlements, population growth, and more specialized work.
What is the Agricultural Revolution? (or Neolithic transition.)
This late Shang capital is known for royal tombs and oracle bones bearing early Chinese writing.
What is Anyang?
After the bloody conquest of Kalinga, this Mauryan ruler promoted Buddhist principles and moral government.
Who is Ashoka?
Associated with Laozi and Zhuangzi, this tradition emphasizes the Dao and living in harmony with natural processesc
What is Daoism? (or Taoism).
This war between Athens and Sparta, fought from 431 to 404 BCE, weakened the Greek poleis
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This early Christian missionary spread the movement among non-Jewish communities across the Roman world.c
Who was Paul? (or Saul)
In 690 CE, this woman claimed the imperial title and ruled in her own name.
Who is Empress Wu? (or Wu Zetian)
This Han official is traditionally associated with improvements in papermaking reported in 105 CE.
Who is Cai Lun?
This religion traveled from India through Central Asia into China, then spread into Korea and Japan.
What is Buddhism?
His preserved body in the Alps offers evidence of copper tools, clothing, health, and violence around 3300 BCE.
Who is the Iceman? (or Who was Otzi?)
This Mauryan capital on the Ganges plain served as a center for ruling much of India.c
What is Pataliputra?
This conqueror united Sumerian cities within the Akkadian Empire in the third millennium BCE.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
The Zhou used this doctrine to argue that a dynasty could lose its right to rule through bad government.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This term describes the era of Greek cultural expansion and interaction after Alexander, when successor kingdoms ruled much of his former empire.
What is the Hellenistic period?
This emperor supported Christianity and inaugurated a new capital at Constantinople in 330 CE.
Who is Constantine?
Beginning in 755 CE, his rebellion gravely weakened the Tang government and increased regional military power.
Who is An Lushan?
This religious tradition originated from Persia and worship involves fire as well as good deeds, good thoughts, good words.
What is Zoroastrianism?
These two large empires overlapped after Augustus took power in 27 BCE and before the Chinese dynasty ended in 220 CE.
What are the Roman Empire and the Han Empire?