India
What were the two big rivers in India?
What is the big river in China?
the Huang He (or Yellow) river
What was the religion of Persia?
Zoroastrianism
Was ancient Greece polytheistic or monotheistic?
polytheistic
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Which were the two religions that started in India?
Hinduism and Buddhism
What were the three major religions of China?
Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism
The Royal ______ was an achievement of Persia.
Road
The mountains of ancient Greece led them to make:
independent city-states
democracy
The Golden Age of India happened during the ______ Empire.
Gupta
What was the name of the trade route between China and Europe?
the Silk Road
Did Persia tolerate or persecute people who had different religions or cultures?
tolerate
Name one ocean near ancient Greece.
Mediterranean Sea, or Aegean Sea, or Black Sea.
Who won the Persian Wars?
Greece
What were the two holy books of Hinduism?
the Vedas and the Upanishads
What were the three expensive things that were only made in China?
silk, porcelain, and paper
The Persian bureaucracy worked for the ________.
government / emperor
What was the name of the war between Athens and Sparta?
the Peloponnesian War
What were the two main requirements to be a citizen in Greece?
1) be an adult man
2) be born there
the caste system
The idea that a Chinese emperor needed to be good (just) to keep the approval of the gods was called:
the Mandate of Heaven
What is the name of Persia today?
Iran
What was the name of the culture that Alexander the Great spread through many places in Egypt and Asia?
Hellenistic culture
Who were the three philosophers from ancient Greece?
Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates