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100
A type of government led by priests.
What is a theocracy?
100
The biggest trade good from ancient China.
What is silk?
100
The capital city of the Mycenaeans.
Who is Knossos?
100
A province of Rome, with Jerusalem as its capital.
What is Judaea?
100
Islamic law states that Muslims cannot eat this meat.
What is pork?
200
The seafaring and trading empire that gave us our alphabet.
What is Phoenicia?
200
The Chinese believed that this happened to their ancestors after they died.
What is they stayed on Earth as spirits?
200
This word means "love of wisdom."
What is philosophy?
200
This was the name for the original laws of the Roman Republic.
What is the Twelve Tables?
200
All Muslims are supposed to make a trip to this holy city once in their life.
What is Mecca?
300
The Egyptian city where the Great Pyramids were located.
What is Giza?
300
His original name was Siddhartha Guatama, and he founded the biggest religion in China.
Who is Buddha?
300
This Greek city-state focused mostly on their military, rather than philosophy or art.
What is Sparta?
300
Leader of the Roman Empire; this is where we get our modern word "emperor" from.
What is Imperator?
300
Islamic trade stretched all the way to this African country.
What is Morocco?
400
The holy book of Zorastrianism.
What is the Zend Avesta?
400
This Chinese dynasty that united most of modern-day China and built the Great Wall.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
400
A general and leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
400
This was the name, in Latin, of a time of peace and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
400
This was the group of religious advisors to the Ottoman sultan.
What are the ulema?
500
Mesopotamian city whose Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is Babylon?
500
This term means obeying the will of the head of the family (normally the father).
What is filial piety?
500
This is the name of the League formed by Athens to protect Greece against the Persians... it's named for the island it was founded on.
What is the Delian League?
500
This was the name of the upper-class in Rome.
What are the patricians?
500
This is the "city of the Prophet," and where he was born.
What is Medina?