Ancient Civilizations

A Japanese military leader with the most political power in the government

 belief in one God

the belief that after a person dies, he comes back in another form

 A Chinese philosophy that promotes goodness and submission to your duties with 5 basic relationships

The Zhou belief that heaven gave the king his right to rule but required him to rule righteously

A series of changes in the Japanese political and economic structure around AD 645

a system of writing made of picture symbols, used by the Ancient Egyptians

a form of nature worship; the main religion of Japan

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for which King?

 belief in many gods

A type of Japanese poem that has a verse form with seventeen syllables and an aspect of nature or seasons

a series of fortified barriers over fourteen hundred miles long built across northern China to keep invaders out

a line of kings or rulers who belong to the same family

a Chinese philosophy that promotes humility and submission to tao, “the way”

wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerians

a chief, prince, or ruler in India

an ancient rock stele or monument carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek and demotic

having received knowledge or understanding

religious duties of a Hindu or Buddhist

a way of supplying water to land or crops

Proper actions and responses that are expected in society; manners

divine being in Hinduism believed to be the cause and material of creation; also called the “great soul”

major Indian religion based on Vedic religious beliefs

the gods or nature spirits of Shintoism

the trade route that stretched about four thousand miles from China to the Mediterranean Sea

people who establish cities, govt., social classes, specialized jobs, arts, sciences, written language, and religion

 belief that everything in the universe is part of a supreme being

the belief that people are evil by nature and so must be controlled by strict laws

a skilled craftsman

a scholar devotes himself  to the pursuit of earthly

A belief that the spirits of ancestors live on and have powers to help or punish people

a wise saying that expresses a simple truth

a system in which people exchanged goods and services for other goods and services

written language of the aryans

a stone coffin that a mummy is placed in

Founded by Siddhartha Gautama

Hindu belief that a person’s deeds, good or bad, determine his state of reincarnation