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This is the type of marriage that people practiced in the Epic Age. What was polygamy?

He was the Indian Physician that practiced and taught sterile technique. Who was Sushruta?

These were a series of fables from the Gupta period of Indian history. What was the Panchatantra?

This was the discovery of the mathematician Aryabhata. What is pi?

This was the type of dome structure built by the Indians. What is a stupa?

This was the system of hierarchy in the Hindu religion. What is the caste system?

These were the two epics of the Hindu religion. What are the Mahabharata and the Ramayana?

This group was the highest in the Hindu hierarchy during the Epic Age. What are the Kshatriyahs then later Brahmins ?

The idea that God and man are one. What is monism?

This in the Hindu religion is a physical practice to focus the mind and body on morality. What is yoga?

This was the real name of Buddha. Who was Siddhartha Gautama Buddha?

This is what Buddha means. What is the Enlightened One or Awakened One ?

These are the two sects or branches of Buddhism. What is Mahayana, and Theravada Buddhism?

This is how Buddha said one would reach heaven. By following the eight fold path?

This is the belief that what one does in this life will decide what happens in the next. What is Karma?

He was the adventurer warrior who established the Maurya Empire in India. Who was Chandragupta Maurya?

He was the great ruler of the Mauryan Empire. Who was Asoka?

This was the religion of Asoka. What was Buddhism?

This was the Empire that dominated the Ganges River Valley and flourished in northern India from 320 A.D. until 535 A.D. What was the Gupta Empire?

This was the empire that flourished in Southern India from 235 B.C. until 225 A.D. What was the Satavahana Empire?

This is the disease that Indian physicians learned they could prevent by inoculating people. What was Small pox using cow pox vaccine?

This is the act of a woman throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. What was suttee

This is the human incarnation of Vishnu. Who was Krishna?

This was the lowest group in the Indian caste system. What are the untouchables or dalit?

This is the last eighteen chapters of the Mahabharata, known as the “Lord’s Song”. What is the Bhagavad Gita?

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These were the stories of Greek Gods and Goddesses. What is a myth?

These were four of the Greek Gods or Goddesses. Who are Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Apollo, Zeus, Hermes, Hades, Hera, and Poseidon?

This is the building represented in the picture. What is the Parthenon?

This was the Greek word for city-state. What is a polis?

This was the primary city-state in Greece after 750 B.C. What was Athens?

This is why the Italian peninsula is a natural crossroads for trade and culture. What is it was that it was in the center of the Mediterranean Sea?

These are four Roman Gods or Goddess. Who were Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Vesta, Vulcan, Neptune, etc.

These are the mountains that protect northern Italy. What are the Alps?

This is another name for Roman nobility What were Patricians?

The majority of Romans were from this class. What was the Plebian or middle or lower class?

This is the building represented in the following picture. What is the Coliseum?

This is the powerful group of patricians who proposed laws in Rome. Who was the Roman Senate?

These were the codified laws of Rome. What were the Twelve Tables?

These were the series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage. What were the Punic Wars?

This is the building represented in the following picture What was the Pantheon?

This is the type of culture spread by Alexander the Great. What was the Hellenistic Culture?

This is father of Alexander the Great who conquered most of Greece. Who was Philip II of Macedon?

This is the river that Alexander the Great conquered up to and then stopped and turned back. What was the Indus River?

These are the two cultures that Alexander hoped to combine. What was Persian and Greek?

This is the type of battle formation used by the Greeks and then perfected by Alexander’s father. What was the Phalanx?

This is another name for the Bishop of Rome. What was the Pope?

This is the important council that establishes the principles of Christianity. What was the Council of Nicea?

This is the organization that replaces Roman authority in the west as the center of people’s daily lives. What was the Roman Catholic Church?

These are the two major divisions in the bible. What is the Old Testament and the New Testament?

This is the monk who spread the Christian religion to Kievan Rus and developed an alphabet for the Slavic people. Who was Cyril and Methodius?