What two rivers formed the fertile crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
What was the Life Blood of Egypt?
Nile River
What was the social structure of India that had levels that were closely connected to hinduism?
Caste/Jati system
What desert acted like a wall around China?
Gobi desert
This is a term for a greek city-state
polis
What were large stepped shaped temples?
What was the item that was filled with spells and prayers that the Ancient Egyptians thought would help them prepare for the afterlife?
Book of the Dead
What were the three rivers that made up ancient India?
Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra
What was the type of writing in China?
Pictograph/Ideograph
Who were the actors in ancient Greek dramas
Men
What was the largest social class?
Middle class
What was Egypt's form of government?
Theocracy
Who led Aryan tribes?
Raja
Who made up the middle class?
Artisans/Merchants
What sea separates Greece from Anatolia?
Aegean Sea
Who mapped the stars and phases of the moon?
Chaldean astronomers
What was a plant that was used in Ancient Egypt to make many things like paper?
Papyrus
Who created the symbol for zero and other numerals?
Guptas
The Silk road
What was the term for captured and enslaved people in Sparta?
Helots
Who made Babylon the greatest city?
Nebuchadnezzar
Who were the people the were trade partners with Egypt that also invented an alphabet that would help influence the Greek alphabet?
The Phoenicians
Who founded Jainism?
Mahavira
Who built a large tomb of Terracotta warriors?
Qin Shihuangdi
What civilization existed before ancient Greece who were also sea traders?
Minoans