Mesopotamia
What was the first story ever written?
What writing system did the Egyptians use?
What are the seasonal winds that affected the area with rain and cool air?
What is a monsoon?
The rise and fall and eventual replacement of a dynasty is called?
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
What is the process of preserving a body for the after life?
What is mummification?
What was the first writing system ever developed?
What is cuneiform?
What did the Egyptians write on? (Hint: It was made from reeds)
What is papyrus?
What is a landmass called that is part of a continent but separated from it by natural barriers called?
What is a subcontinent?
In the Yin and Yang harmony, the dark and mysterious female is which one?
What is the Yin?
What is the belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
What ruler created the first written code of laws?
Who is Hammurabi?
When the old kingdom fell due to a lack of rain and crop failures, what did it lead to?
What is famine?
What was an invention of the city-states of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
What is plumbing?
The yellow-colored silt in the Yellow River is also called?
What is loess?
What is the Indus River?
What Mesopotamian ruler was the first to start an empire?
Who is Sargon?
What Egyptian ruler led for 67 years and lived to be 99 years old?
Who is Ramses II?
Early Indus River Valley city-states were based on this planned placement of structures & roads.
What is the grid system?
What stated that if a king ruled in a selfish or corrupt way heaven would withdraw its mandate and gives it to another leader?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Who supervised the day-to-day for the pharoah?
Who is the Vizier?
Name an invention the Mesopotamians invented.
What is the wheel?
What was a natural barrier around the Egyptian civilization that was a positive and negative to the growth of the civilization?
What is the Sahara Desert?
What is the plateau called at the southern part of Indian subcontinent?
What is Deccan?
Who was held in the highest regard in China?
Who are the ancestors?
What is an area controlled by one ruler?
What is an empire?