Rivers
What is the river flowing through Egypt
The Nile
Put these in order from first to last
Akkadians
Babylonians
Persians
Sumerians
1) Sumerians
2) Akkadians
3) Babylonians
4) Persians
Ancient Egypt is split into 3 kingdoms, what are they?
The Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, & the New Kingdom
Mohenjo-Daro was easy to navigate for what reason?
It was built on a grid system
Who was second Chinese dynasty?
The Shang
What are the rivers flowing through Mesopotamia?
The Euphrates and Tigris
Who created and what is Cuneiform? How long did it take to learn?
Sumerians created Cuneiform and it is the first form of writing. It took 12 years to learn.
Put these in order based off of Ancient Egypt Hierarchy.
Soldier
Scribes
Pharaoh
Merchants
Pharaoh
Soldier
Scribes
Merchants
What happened to most of the remains of Harappa in the 1900’s?
It was taken by British soldiers to build Railroad systems.
What is the idea that "light cannot exist without darkness, and darkness cannot exist without light" called?
Yin & Yang
India is named after what famous river?
The Indus
The Epic of Gilgamesh was a poem created by which ancient civilization?
The Sumerians
She is the last Pharaoh of Egypt
Cleopatra
What was Ancient India language called and why do we know so little about it?
Sanskrit is Ancient India's language and it was not discovered until the 1900's
How Does a Dynasty lose the Mandate of Heaven?
When a member of the family becomes corrupt or bad the mandate will be passed to another dynasty who will take over and rule
What River Does Bullhead City people live on?
The Colorado River
The fertile area between the Tigris & Euphrates was known as the what?
"_____ __ ___________"
Cradle of Civilization
This is the part lion, part hippo, part crocodile beast that would devour the soul of unworthy humans trying to pass to the field of reeds.
Ammut
Why is Mohenjo-Daro such a mystery?
They found 40 skeletons sprawled around the street with objects around them fused by heat as high as 1500 degrees hot.
What Dynasty lasted for 770 years in Ancient China?
The Zhou Dynasty
The creator of the first Chinese dynasty Xia traveled up and down this river spending most of his life irrigating it so stop over flooding
The Yellow River
"An eye for an eye" was a law made in what document?
The Code of Hammurabi
During the Weighing of the Heart, who measured a humans heart and what did they weight it against.
Maat weighted the heart against a feather
The first Great emperor of India Chandragupta was know to have 600,000 _______, 30,000 ______, and 9,000 ________.
600,000 Soldiers
30,000 Cavalry
9,000 Elephants
Emperor Qin Shi Huang from the Qin Dynasty buried himself with the Terracotta Army. What is that?
It is a tomb with 1000's of statue soldiers that stand to protect the Emperors body.