Silk Road & Indian Ocean Trade
The Silk Road connected China to the region.
What is the Mediterranean?
Form of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
What is cuneiform?
Who is Hammurabi?
Religion based on the Torah
What is Judaism?
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia ( The Fertile Crescent)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Goods China exported along the Silk Road.
What are silk, porcelain, paper?
Civilization that created hierglyphs
What is Egypt?
Government based on religion
What is theocracy?
What are the Four Noble Truths?
called the "Gift of the Nile"
What is the Nile River?
Technology that made Indian Ocean trade easier.
What monsoon wind knowledge and lateen sails?
Phoenicians' main contribution to writing
What is the alphabet?
Empire used satraps to help govern its provinces
What is Persia?
What was Confucius' goal for society?
Invention allowed early farmers to control flooding
What is irragation?
City that became wealthy by taxing Silk Road Trade.
What is Taxila?
Writing's importance for trade
What is to keep records of goods & exchanges?
The Chinese belief that rulers were chosen by the gods.
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
Religion that introduced the Ten Commandments
What is Judaism?
What is the compass?
A culture that influenced others through Silk Road trade.
What is India ( Buddhism)? What is China? (Silk, inventions) What is the Middle East? ( math, science)
Hammurabi's Code was written on these
What are stone steles (pillars)?
Empire freed the Jews from Babylonian exile
What was Persia or Who was Cyrus the Great?
Philosophy focused on strict laws & punishments in China
What is Legalism?
Mapping technology used by historians today
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?