River Valley Civilizations
Wrote one of the world's first law codes. Leader of Mesopotamia/Babylonia around 1750 BCE.
Who is Hammurabi?
The form of government invented in Ancient Athens and used in many countries today.
What is democracy?
This spans 1,500 miles, and was built to defend China's northern border.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
What is the Silk Road?
In Ancient India, this was the social structure of the Hindu religion.
What is the caste system?
Considered one of the first ancient civilizations. Developed around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
The two most famous Greek city states. They had very different lifestyles and they fought against each other in the Peloponnesian War.
What are Athens and Sparta?
This philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws.
What is the leagalism?
The silk road had the most affect on this religion because travelers carried the ideas of this religion with them.
What is the Buddhism?
This is one of two religions developed in ancient India over many centuries from the Vedic beliefs and Brahmanism.
What is Hindu/Hinduism?
This ancient civilization created the pyramids and were ruled by a pharaoh.
What is Egypt?
Which city state does this describe: the boys were trained to be great warriors. Education was focused on athletic skill.
Sparta
Leader known for uniting China, building the Great Wall, and using the legalist philosophy to rule.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
Silk was so popular in this country and considered a luxury that was highly prized. The wealthy traded gold and glassware for it.
Who is Rome?
This is the belief that the good and evil done in a person's past life determines the nature of the person's next life.
What is Karma?
Word meaning New Stone Age, when humans developed farming and domestication of animals.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Considered the father of Western Philosophy. One of his students was Plato.
Who is Socrates?
The name for a period of time when the main body if Chinese were governed by one family or group.
What is a Dynasty?
This country traded spices, cotton, pearls and ivory.
What is India?
It stands for law, obligation and duty. To follow this mean's to perform one's duties and live in an honorable way.
What is Dharma?
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Because he wrote about the past in a factual way, Herodotus is known as the father of this?
What is history?
This philosophy emphasizes proper behavior and is based on the teachings of Kongfuzi (Kong FOO shee).
What is Confucianism?
People in China what this animal from Central Asia because they were larger and more powerful than the ones in China
What are horses?
This is the belief that when a person dies their soul will be reborn into a new body.
What is reincarnation?