Mesopatamia
Egypt
China
Indus River Valley
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The meaning of Mesopotamia
What is the land between two rivers?
100
An artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
This justification developed over time into a broader view that royal authority came from heaven.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
100
Land Mass that is a distinct part of a continent
What is a subcontinent?
100
Good or bad deeds
What is karma?
200
The religion consisted of these.
What is polytheistic, and sacrifices?
200
All dessert, except for the Nile Valley and Nile Delta; some areas are mountainous.
What is the type of terrain is Egypt?
200
Because of these floods in this River it was nicknamed “China’s Sorrow.”
What is Huang He River?
200
The challenges people along the Indus River face
What is flooding?
200
Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain
What is nirvana?
300
This epic was identical to the great flood
What is Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
The capital of ancient Egypt
What is Cairo?
300
This silt is actually fertile soil
What is loess?
300
Two things that were assumed about the Harappan civilization
What are cities and sewage systems?
300
Collection of beliefs
What is Hinduism?
400
The form of writing distinguished by its "wedge-shaped" marks on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
400
Why does the Nile River Flood?
What is heavy spring rains in Ethiopia?
400
Animal bones and tortoise shells on which priests had scratched questions for the gods.
What are the oracle bones?
400
Two reasons why Indus River Valley civilizations possibly ended
What is the lack of food?
400
Founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
500
Massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley
What is a Ziggurat?
500
The ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria
Who is Herodotus?
500
Historians describe the pattern of rise decline, and replacement of dynasties as the
What is the dynastic cycle?
500
A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
What is a citadel?
500
Belief that the soul is reborn
What is reincarnation?
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