Egypt
The name for a king in Ancient Egypt.
What is pharoah?
The first city in Mesopotamia.
What is Ur?
Siddhartha Gautama is better known by his other name, the ___________.
What is the Buddha?
This sage king was known for his hairless shins.
Who is the Great Yu?
Greeks refer to their territory as __________.
What is Hellas?
The Egyptian word for the underworld.
What is the Duat?
Mesopotamia means __________.
What is "between the rivers"?
The Myth of Purusha helps set up the social stratification system known as the ___________.
What is the Varna System?
What are oracle bones?
The Greek concept of __________, or the common good, was an underlying principle of a Greek polis.
What is to koinon?
This goddess regulates the stars, seasons, actions of mortals, and the actions of those deities who created order from chaos.
Who is Ma'at?
This person made the first unified law code in history.
Who is Hammurabi?
The fulfillment of moral obligation in Hinduism.
What is dharma?
This philosopher believed that the ultimate way to react in government and life was to do nothing or to follow a path of inaction.
Who is Laozi?
Cleiesthenes broke up the power of the ruling families in Greece by setting up the __________.
What are the Ten Demes?
Theriomorphic gods have characteristics of these two things.
What are humans and animals?
The theory that there are multiple strains of literature that created the Hebrew Bible is called the __________.
What is the Documentary Hypothesis?
The phrase "moksha" means ______________.
The release from samsara or rebirth.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
This health theory states that a person's body (and everything in it) must be in balance in order for them to remain healthy.
What is humoral theory?
Name one of the themes present in the Egyptian creation myth.
What is the theme of putting chaos into order, resurrection, the institution of kingship, etc.?
The character of Noah closely parallels the Mesopotamian character of _____________.
Who is Utnapishtim?
What is a Chakravartin?
The later Zhou period is dominated by civil wars known as _____________ and _____________.
What are the Spring & Autumn and the Warring States Periods?
This general gave a speech to glorify Athens and the soldiers who died fighting the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars.
Who is Pericles?