World History Final

Famous Indian mathematician and one of the first scientists known to have used algebra

The priestly class of Ancient society were

According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person

The poet who wrote the Iliad was named

Socrates’ most famous student was named

The Persian leader who was presented the greatest threat to the Greek empire was named Xerxes

The word used by Vedic Aryans to refer to the four groups that made up what they viewed as a proper ordered society

The home of Alexander the Great

The “enlightened one”

The teachings of Homer promoted

Term used by the Portuguese to designate the fixed social groups into which individuals are born

According to the philosophy of Epicurus

The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 B.C.

According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war

The ancient Greeks considered religion

According to the legend, the messenger Pheidippides began his twenty sieve mile run in Athens

The greatest ruler in Indian history

Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Great’s death?

Pericles spoke about his hopes and ideals for Athens during a public funeral held early in the Peloponnesian War

The reforms of Cleisthenes

Site of an early battle between the Greeks and the Macedonians

The word spartan has come to mean

India’s golden age of culture flourished under this monarch

In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen

People captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs

Another way the Buddhism differed from Hinduism was that Buddhists rejected

Reincarnation is the Hindu

Imitating the Greeks

One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was_____, or the study of moral principals

After loosing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians

The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on

Self-denial as a method to achieve an understanding of ultimate reality

Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer are the three chief

Ultimate reality or the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul

Greek history was influenced by Greece’s

The god associated with the most famous oracle in Ancient Greece was

About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is

The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of ____ that they called arete.

The lowest level of Ancient Indian society who were given tasks seen as the most polluting such as collecting trash and

Heavily armed foot soldiers

The tyrants of Ancient Greece were

One way that Buddhism differed from Hinduism was Buddhists believed that

A literary work about the fictional ruler Rama

The Kushans adapted

The Greek sculpted Polyclitus believed that

A writer of comedies during the Hellenistic era

A method of training developed by the Hindúes that is supposed to lead to oneness with Brahman

Followers of this religion believe in a single universal force called Brahman

After the collapse of the Mauryan Empire the people who spread over northern India as far as the central Ganges Valley i

During his reign, Asoka

Type if religious structure originally meant to house relics of the Buddha

The force generated by a person’s actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life

Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of

Fortified area on a hilltop

The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of

Gupta rulers earned large profits from

During the Dark Age, some Greeks settled

Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

The conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to the

Two major groups that settled within Greece itself were the

The Eightfold Oath includes the idea that we must

The alliance formed by Sparta to help defend Greece from the Persians was called the Delian League.

Eight steps that Buddhists follow on the path to enlightenment

During the Age of Pericles, the governing assembly of Athens met every ten days on a hillside east of the Acropolis.

The King who conquered the Greeks

Siddhartha Gautama’s message about suffering and desire

Elected members of Sparta’s oligarchy

The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the

During the eighth century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on the