Vocabulary
One of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India - priests, warriors, peasants or traders and non-Aryan laborers or craftsmen.
Caste System
Judaism was unique in that it's religion was based on the belief of one true God. What is this form of religion?
Monotheism
This most prized and expensive export which came from small mollusks called murex snails. The natural historian Pliny remarked on the rather unpleasant smell of the murex conchylium — one of the marine gastropods often used to produce this good.
Purplish-red dye (Tyrian Dye)
One of the most powerful and influential Pharaohs' to have ruled Egypt in its golden age. He is the mightiest third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt. He ruled for 67 years, building enormous temples, obelisks, and statues and expanding Egypt's empire through war and treaties (such as with the Hittites).
Ramses II
The first Qin Emperor, who was a brutal ruler that unified ancient China and laid the foundation for the Great Wall.
Shi Huangdi
A payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power to obtain an assurance of peace and security.
Tribute
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible - the most sacred writings in the Jewish tradition.
Torah
Starting in the Red Sea the Phoenicians were said to have been the first to sail around what continent; The next written record being roughly 2000 years later!
Africa
Double Jeopardy (Double Points)
A Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire with the Medes.
Chaldeans
A philosophy based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Laozi, who taught that people should be guided by a universal force called "The Way".
Daoism
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (Double Points)
A mutual promise or agreement - such as the agreement between God and the Jewish people as recorded in the Hebrew Bible.
Covenant
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth.
Karma
What was the major contribution of the Phoenicians where they connected the written language to the spoken language.
Phonetic Alphabet
An ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 BC.
Kush
In Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life.
Yin and Yang
A provincial governor of ancient Persia under Darius
Satrap
An ancient home of the Israelites at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Canaan
A capital city of ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete
Knossos
A terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
A Chinese political philosophy based on the idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order.
Legalism
A road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
Royal Road
1) Life is filled with suffering and sorrow.
2) The causes of all suffering is people's selfish desire.
3) The way to end all suffering is to end all desires.
4) The way to overcome such desires is to attain Enlightenment following the Eightfold Path.
What is this Buddhist belief system?
The Four Noble Truths
Rather than using military might to establish an empire, the Phoenicians created these types of colonies along the Mediterranean where a city and its surrounding lands function as an independent political unit.
City-States
The last great king of the Assyrian Empire, who created a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, including texts in various languages. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.
Ashurbanipal
The Persian priest-turned-prophet who founded a the first monotheistic religion in the world, whose precepts would come to influence later faiths.
Zoroaster