Tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings and household items of early peoples.
What is artifacts?
100
The ancient river valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia, and the primary feature of India's climate.
What is a monsoon?
100
An upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another.
What is an aristocracy?
100
Wrote epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey telling of the great deeds of heroes.
Who is Homer?
200
Change in the Neolithic Revolution from hunting animals and gathering food; to keeping animals and growing food.
What is systematic agriculture?
200
Basic form of Sumerian civilization in which expanded cities came to have political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
200
Body of water through which the Indus valley civilization in India carried on extensive trade with city-states in Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
A belief that Heaven kept order in the universe through the Zhou king; giving him the authority to rule over all humanity (but not making him divine).
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
A military state in which males spend their childhood learning military discipline and women had greater freedom and power than was common anywhere else.
What is Sparta?
300
Greek for 'old stone'
What does Paleolithic Age mean?
300
This river flooded regularly, creating very fertile soil which created surpluses of food.
What is the Nile?
300
5 major divisions of Indian classes in ancient times.
What is the caste system?
300
Known as The First Teacher. Upset by the violence and moral decay of his age, he traveled abound China in an attempt to persuade political leaders to follow his ideas.
Who is Confucius?
300
Created the foundation for democracy in Athens.
Who is Cleisthenes?
400
The age in which a division of labor developed, and people began to specialize in certain crafts.
What is the Neolithic Age
400
These people invented a 22 character alphabet that was eventually passed on to the Greeks.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
Family structure in which the oldest male held legal authority over the entire family unit.
What is a patriarchal family?
400
The two elements in the Confucian view of the Dao.
What are duty and humanity?
400
The four kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great.
What are Macedonia, Syria, Pergamum, and Egypt?
500
Characteristics of this include: cities, governments, religion, social structure, writing, and art.
What is a civilization?
500
A road that stretched through the Persian Empire which created an efficient system of communication; and made it easy for officials to travel through.
What is the Royal Road?
500
The force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life.
What is karma?
500
Dynasty that followed the Qin dynasty in 202 BC and discarded the harsh policies of Legalism in favor of Confucianism.
What is the Han dynasty?
500
Greed philosopher who believed that all real knowledge is already present within each person; critical examination, in question and answer format, is used to lead pupils to see things for themselves.