Egypt
Egyptian language that uses sound symbols and pictures.
What is hieroglyphics?
The first writing system in the world.
What is Cuneiform?
The writing system of ancient India
What is Sanskrit?
What is Before Christ?
This civilization gave us the wheel.
What is Mesopotamia?
This shapely math helped build the pyramids.
What is geometry?
The gods' home, located in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
This essential part of the Hindu faith involves rebirth.
What is reincarnation?
The meaning of BCE
What is Before Common Era?
Preparing a body for burial in ancient Egypt.
What is embalming/mummification?
The Nile river empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean sea?
This provides water to crops.
What is irrigation?
The highest level of society (caste) in India.
What is the Brahmin?
This is the key difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic era
What are the permanent settlements and agriculture of the Neolithic?
This happened when there was a drought. There was not enough water for irrigation and the creation of fertile soil.
What is a food scarcity?
The man that tried to turn Egypt monotheistic.
Who is Amenhotep IV/Akhenaton?
The two rivers that gave life to the first civilization.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This range protects India from the North and has a famous mountain.
What are the Himalayas?
The reason for trade in the Neolithic period.
What is trading for things they needed and wanted but did not have?
Two polytheistic civilizations.
What are Mesopotamia and Egypt (or India)?
The pharaoh that brought Egypt into a golden age through trade and building projects.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut
Political districts that were used by the Mesopotamian empires and the Indian empires.
What are provinces?
This man created great roads and hospitals for people (and pets).
Who is Ashoka?
The reason we use the term "prehistory".
What is, there are no written records?
Name the two faiths that arose from Judaism.
What are Islam and Christianity?