Ancient Egypt
This major river was the center of life and civilization in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The two rivers surrounding the land of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
A massive structure built across northern China to protect the empire from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
A famous trade route connected ancient China to Europe and the Mediterranean.
What was the Silk Road?
The picture-writing system used by the ancient Egyptians.
What are Hieroglyphics?
A dead body that has been carefully wrapped in cloth to preserve it.
What is a mummy?
An ancient empire, known for its fierce warriors and mention in the Bible, fought for control over the region of Mesopotamia.
Who were the Assyrians?
A famous Chinese philosopher who taught about the five virtues, respect, and good character.
Who was Confucius?
China was the first civilization to invent this light, flying device made of bamboo and silk or paper.
What is a kite?
A wedge-shaped writing system was developed by the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
A large, stone figure has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is a sphinx?
An ancient Mesopotamian invention which allowed people to transport heavy goods on carts.
What is the wheel?
Ancient Chinese coins had this shape cut out of the middle.
What is a square?
A Chinese invention that uses a magnetic needle to help travelers find which way is North.
What is a compass?
A material Mesopotamians wrote on using a sharp reed stylus/pencil.
What are clay tablets?
A famous artifact, discovered in 1799, helped historians finally decode/understand Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The name of the famous ancient stepped towers built in Mesopotamia as temples.
Why did Chinese coins have a square hole in the middle?
So they could be kept together on a string or smoothed on a square rod.
Instead of heavy metal coins, the Chinese invented this to make trading large amounts of money easier.
What is paper money?
Long before modern books, these rolled-up sheets of paper or silk were what the ancient Chinese wrote on.
What are scrolls?
The two periods of Egyptian history.
What are the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom?
A famous ancient wonder of the world that featured beautiful plants grown high on tiered stone terraces in Babylon.
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
China was famous for creating a beautiful, delicate type of pottery often called "china." This is its official name.
What is Porcelain?
An explosive device made from trapping black powder (gunpowder) into tightly sealed tubes. First used for entertainment and later for military, known as "fire arrows".
What is a rocket?
An invention that allowed the Chinese to copy books quickly without writing them by hand every time.
What is block printing?