Ancient Civilizations
Egypt
Mesopotamia
India
China
100
All ancient civilizations that we have studied have settled near these.
What are rivers?
100
Their written form of communication.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
These stepped pyramids, made of clay bricks were known as this.
What are ziggurats?
100
Two religions that were practiced in early India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
100
This route was taken by traders wanting to trade silk garments.
What is the Silk Road?
200
The people who were at the top of the social hierarchy pyramids.
Who are pharaohs/kings?
200
Pyramids were built for this purpose.
What is to provide tombs for the pharaohs and their families?
200
Their earliest form of writing called this was written on clay tablets.
Whatis cuneiform?
200
The river near which early Indians settled.
What is the Indus River?
200
Used by Chinese this to make their garments. They were the first to use it.
What is silk?
300
This country used sea shells as an early form of money.
What is China?
300
This is the continent on which Egypt is located. 
What is Africa?
300
Overflowing rivers deposited this along the river banks after floods. It made the soil fertile.
What is silt?
300
The seasonal winds that brought wet and dry conditions.
What are monsoons?
300
The ingredient needed to make gunpowder that is missing from this list: sulfur, salt and










What is charcoal?
400
Of the following, this was an achievement of the early Sumerians:


hieroglyphics, cotton clothing, the wheel, garments made of silk.


What was the wheel?
400
the process used to preserve mummies.
What is embalming?
400
This was the first set of written laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Of these, this was a contribution that early India made to the world:

the first calendar, algebra, the plow and wheel, or introducing zero to the number system.

What is the introduced zero to the number system?
400
Their religious ideas were influenced by the religious ideas in this country.
What is India?
500
This is the time period that started when people discovered ways to make their own food and domesticate animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution (Age/Time Period)?
500
Egyptians compared their kings with these.
What are the gods?
500
The two rivers that early Mesopotamians settled near.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
This is the term for the quotes, "what comes around goes around" and "your actions will come back to haunt you".
What is karma?
500
The region in which China's earliest civilizations developed?
What is Huang He Valley?
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