This is a practice by which a young male marries his elder brother’s widow.

What do the lares and penates refer to?

Named after a site in New Mexico, what culture consisted of mobile bands of hunter-gatherers?

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.