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The least-focused on governing of the Chinese texts we discussed (NOT necessarily read) is called this.
What is the Tao Te Ching?
This person is usually considered to have authored the Iliad.
Who was Homer?
Alexander the Great lived until this year.
When is 323 BCE?
Thucydides was a general and historian from this city-state in this region.
What is Athens, Greece?
The Code of Hammurabi is our first recorded example of this gruesome phrase describing an exchange of body parts.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
The Prism of _____ is the name given to an inscribed prism containing the achievements of Assyrian Kings
What is the Prism of Sennacherib?
This is one of the most famous Chinese philosophers of all time; he most directly influenced the Han dynasty.
Who was Confucius?
What was the third century BCE?
Philip II started his campaign from this homeland.
What is Macedonia?
The modern name for the period we studied in Unit 4 is this.
What is the Axial Age?
This is the name for the most famous collection of Chinese philosophy that we read this semester.
What is The Analects?
This person delivered the funeral oration recorded by Thucydides.
Who was Pericles?
The famous collection of Chinese philosophy we read is traditionally dated to this year.
When was 480 BCE?
The Amarna Letters were found in this country.
What is Egypt?
The Anabasis Alexandrou, Arrian's writing on Alexander the Great, is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Sargon II's inscription at Dur-Sharrukin is also called this.
What is the Lamassu Inscription?
This is the given name of the figure we now know as the first Buddha.
The famous law code of Babylon dates back to this century.
What is the 18th century BCE?
Some of the ancient historians we read for our Alexander unit were Greek, but many were also citizens of this later power that we will discuss in the second semester.
What was Rome?
Despite being from different societies, the most famous Chinese philosophy we studied this year and some of the teachings of the Buddha share some understandings of what knowledge is. This is the key trait (one word will do!) that a truly wise person will admit to having.
What is ignorance?
What is the Dhammapada?
Who was Socrates?
This is the date we have for the text called On the Murder of Eratosthenes.
What is no given date?
What is the Hyphasis River?
We compared Assyrian punishments/torture to this modern cuddly business during our discussion of that subject.
What is Build-a-Bear Workshop?