Egypt
What is the river that allowed life in Egypt?
The Nile River
What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What is the name of the river that is in northern India that was home to the early Indian civilization? It flows from Tibet through the Himalayas into the Arabian Sea.
Indus River
What is the kind of government called that is ruled by a single ruler like a king?
monarchy
What are the 3 monotheistic religions?
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
hieroglyphics
What is the kind of writing used by the Sumerian scribes called that is made up of wedge shapes?
cuneiform
What is the name of the city of the ancient Harappan civilization, c. 2500-1600 BC located in the Indus River Valley?
Harappa
tyranny (tyrant)
Who was the founder of Christianity?
Jesus Christ
Who was the pharoah who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Menes
What is the stone slab (stele) called that records a set of laws created by the Babylonian king?
Code of Hammurabi
What is the name of the well-planned city in the ancient Indus River Valley that means "Mound of the Dead" in Sanskrit?
Mohenjo-Daro
What is the kind of government called that is ruled by a small group of rich men, usually landowners?
oligarchy
What are the set of laws that were given to Moses, the Jewish prophet?
Ten Commandments
What is the fertile soil and rock that is carried and deposited by a river?
silt
The Sumerians lived in city-states and worshipped more than one god. This is called what?
polytheism
What is the name of the social order in Hinduism?
the caste system
What is a blended culture of Greek ideas with the local traditions called -- or the spread of Greek culture after Alexander the Great's death?
Hellenism
What is the belief that you will be reborn again that is a Hindu and Buddhist belief?
reincarnation
Who is the first female ruler of Egypt?
Hatshepsut
What is the name of the place where the Sumerians worshipped?
a ziggurat
What is the religion of India that grew out of the beliefs of the ancient Aryan people that is still a religion today in India and Southeast Asia? This religion uses the Vedas as its sacred books.
Hinduism
Who was the ruler who defeated the Persian Empire and had one of the largest empires between 334-323 BC?
Alexander the Great
What is the religion founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama that teaches that the most important think in life is to reach peace?
Buddhism