River Valley Civilizations
This civilization was ruled by pharaohs and built pyramids along the Nile River.
What is EGYPT?
This is the founder of Islam.
Who is MUHAMMAD.
This is the father of history and first historian from Ancient Greece.
Who is HERODOTUS?
This is the disease that spread throughout Europe in the 1300s, which killed 1/3 of Europe.
What is the BUBONIC PLAGUE?
The trade of these two goods made the empires of Ghana and Mali wealthy.
What is GOLD and SALT?
This is where the Mauryan and later Gupta empires ruled.
What is INDIA?
This is the strict version of Christianity.
What is ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY?
This is the Greek polis that Athens fought against in the Peloponnesian War.
What is SPARTA?
This is who invented the printing press, which increased literacy during the Northern Renaissance.
Who is GUTENBERG.
This civilization built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains in South America.
What is the INCA EMPIRE?
This large ancient empire, which controlled the Fertile Crescent from Egypt to the Indus River, ruled with tolerance and a strong bureaucracy.
What is the PERSIAN EMPIRE?
This religion finds reincarnation, karma, and the caste system important.
What is HINDUISM?
This is the Byzantine emperor who codified Roman laws, ruled in Constantinople, and built the Hagia Sophia (church).
Who is JUSTINIAN?
This is who unified Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and was named Holy Roman Emperor.
Who is CHARLEMAGNE?
This civilization ruled central Mexico and built Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco with chinampas for farming.
What is the AZTEC EMPIRE?
This is the approval to rule given by the gods in China.
What is the MANDATE OF HEAVEN?
This is what Buddhist aim to attain when they follow the Eightfold Path and reach enlightenment like Siddhartha Gautama.
What is NIRVANNA?
This is the form of government used in Rome where citizens elect leaders into the Senate.
What is a REPUBLIC?
This is the holy city that Pope Urban II told Christians to recapture during the Crusades.
What is JERUSALEM?
This is a Japanese religion where believers worship nature, family, and the emperor.
This philosophy found education and filial piety (ancestor worship) important in China.
What is CONFUCIANISM?
This is the dispersal of Jews.
What is the DIASPORA?
This is the alphabet that Byzantine missionaries created to convert Russians to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
What is the CYRILLIC ALPHABET?
What is HUMANISM?
This dynasty in Medieval China ruled with Neo-Confucianism and eventually fell to the Mongols.
What is SUNG DYNASTY?