Famous Rivers and Civilizations
Famous People
India
China
Egypt
100

Egypitian pharos were believed to have passed over this river and into the afterlife following their death.

Nile River

100

Jewish leader who would lead the ancient Hebrews on the Exodus out of Egypt

Abraham

100

The Indian subcontinent is continually subjected to extreme weather and flash flooding of the Indus river due to this seasonal wind.

Monsoons

100

Siddharta Gautama is credited for being the founder of this faith.

Buddhaism

100

Egyptian God kings were known as this

Pharaos

200

These two rivers were at the heart of the region of Mesopotamia, home of the city-states of Babylon, Ur, and Sumeria.

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

200

This kings temple was destroyed at the hands of the Babyloians in their conquest of the Jews in 586 BC.

Solomon's Temple

200

The Hindu social class system that also impacted their faith, where one hoped to either reach Moskha, or at least be reborn into a higher social class.

Caste system

200

Ancient Chinesse civilizations were first developed under these two rivers.

Yellow river and Yangtze

200

THe Egyptians believed you entered the afterlife, where its body was wrapped and presevered before etombed

Nile River

300

THe basis for artimetic and geometry was first established 

Babylon

300

One of the Greatest pharaohs of ancient egypt, his tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter

King Tut

300

The state of perfect understanding, which ends the cycle of reincarnation under the Hindu belief system

Moksha

300

The notion that the power to rule came from God was know as this.

Mandate of Heaven

300

The process of prepearing a pharaoh for the afterlife, where its body was wrapped and preserved before reading them before readying them for the afterlife.

Mummification

400

This ancient civilization was know for its phonetica language, as well as trading a rare purple dye extracted from snails

Phoneicia

400

Sumerian leader who developed what is believed the be the world's first legal code, who essence was the principle "eye for an eye"

Hammurabi's Code

400

The greatest influence that the Indo- Europeans brought to the Middle East and South Asia sewage systems.

Sanskrit

400

The Hndu and Buddhist belief that you are continually re-born again and again if you fail to reach a state of Moksha and/or Nirvanna

Reincarnation

400

Egyptian pictorial writing

Hieroglypics

500

Abraham and his family have their origins in this Mesopotamian city-state

This city-state was describes in the bible as a melting pot of different races and lainaiges, conflicting gods, and alien demons

Babylon, Babylon

500

In 586 BC, this king and the Babylonians invaded Jersualem, taking the Jews captive and leading them back to Babylon.

600. This ethnic group is believed to be the first monotheistic group

King Nebuchadnezzar, Hebrews

500

Which of the following two cities were know to have developed earliest sewage systems.

Nomadic group such as the hitties and the Aryans are histroically refreed to as this

Harappa, Mohenjo-Dajo

Indo Europeans


500

The primary concept of this faith emphasized the preeminence of the patriarch within the family

The Spread of Buddhism can be most attribted to trade along this famous trade route.

Confucianism

The Great Silk Road

500

Name the state of the afterlife for both Hindu and Buddhaist faits


Name 2 of the civilizations that, according to the Bibile, would capture the Jews, and a third that would try uncucessful.

Pyramids

Mesopotamia


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