This is a script characterized by wedge-shaped symbols that evolved into a phonetic script—that is, one based on sounds— in which each symbol stood for a syllable.

True or false? The freeing of enslaved people is known as manumission and was a practice in imperial Rome.

Mounds in mound-building cultures often marked what type of sites?

_ reigned over Babylon as a center of power and the administrative capital of a new Mesopotamian empire.

True or false? For the people on the steppes, the title “khan” signifies a supreme leader with claims to spiritual and military supremacy.

__ was responsible for freeing Persia from being a vassal state and expanded his reign through military conquest.

This is the account of the Hebrews’ mass migration out of Egypt and eventually to Canaan.

Early hunter-gatherer diets were often based on their environment; for example, __.

This pharaoh recovered Lower Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine and ushered in the beginning of the New Kingdom.

Daoism urges rulers to allow things to take their natural course, limiting the notion that humans should actively change their societies.