Important People
king of all Greek gods
Who is Zeus
What is a ruler with total power over a country called
What is a dictator
Home of all Greek gods and highest mountain in Greece
What is Mt. Olypus
A large body of religious texts originating in the ancient India
What are the Vedas
Pieces of turtle shell or bone, normally from ox scapulae or turtle plastrons, which were used for recording history
What are oracle bones
First king of Crete
Who is King Minos
A virgin consecrated to Vesta and vowed to chastity, sharing the charge of maintaining the sacred fire burning on the goddess's altar
Who were the Vestal Virgins
A small group of people having control of a country
What is oligarchy
Was one of the two major cities in the Indus Valley
What were the Harappan Cities
Ancient network of trade routs
What are the silk roads
Who was the great Greek legend and king of Mycenae
Who is King Agamemnon
An aristocrat or nobleman
Who were patricians
A city state in ancient Greece
What is polis
One of the longest rivers in Asia, originating in the Tibetan Plateau
What is the Indus river
Excessive adherence to law
What is legalism
Who was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia
Who is Xerxes
What were commoners called in ancient Rome
Who were plebeians
A member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta,
Who were the Helots
A trans-boundary river of the Indian subcontinent which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.
What is the Ganges River
Was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China
Who was Shi Huangdi
Carthaginian general and was considered to be on of the greatest generals in world history
Who is Hannibal
Was the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians
Who were plebs
A prominent and influential Greek statesman and general of Athens during the Golden Age
Who was Pericles
A system of social stratification
What was the caste system
A Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Who was Confucius