These two rivers made up the boundary of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
This is the reason why Egyptians buried everyday things with the dead in their tombs.
What is Egyptians believed that the dead would need and use them in the afterlife?
100
This is the main reason why Greek city-states were very independent and people there didn't identify themselves as Greeks.
What is the mountainous geography of the Greek peninsula and the poor soil?
100
These two brothers were supposedly found by a she-wolf and grew up to start the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
100
This is the most common reason for early civilizations to fight wars.
What is to control farmland to grow crops?
200
This early civilization created the first writing system, called cuneiform.
What is the Sumerian civilization?
200
In Indian society, this is the most important thing regarding the caste system.
What is to try and move up the caste system to a higher level?
200
The citizens' assembly in Athens is an example of this type of democracy.
What is direct democracy?
200
This is the difference between a representative democracy and a direct democracy.
What is in a representative democracy, citizens elect officials to create laws and in a direct democracy, all citizens make laws?
200
In addition to controlling flooding, early civilizations built canals to do this.
What is to irrigate fields of farmland?
300
In most early civilizations, a person's social class depended on these two things.
What are one's wealth and one's occupation?
300
These three things were done by Menes to show that Egypt was a united kingdom.
What is he combined crowns, married a Lower Egyptian princess, and built a new capital city?
300
Because of the mountainous terrain of Greece, travel was difficult in Greece. This led them to become experts at building this.
What is they became expert shipbuilders?
300
These two groups of people were not considered equal in Roman government and thus, could not be citizens.
What are slaves and women?
300
Almost all early civilizations developed by this...
What is rivers, or river valleys?
400
This Babylonian written list of laws controlled people's daily life and behavior.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
This leader of the Qin dynasty wanted to standardize writing and measurements, buried some teachers, and also built an empire in China.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
400
One important difference between the ancient Greek democracy of Athens and our current form had to do with voting. Athenians voted on broken pieces of this...
What is pottery, called ostraka?
400
This event best marks the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire.
What is when Octavian takes over and is called "Augustus" by the Senate?
400
This person was NOT a philosopher in early civilization.
Socrates - Ramses the Great - Plato - Siddhartha Gautama-
Aristotle - Confucius
Who is Ramses the Great? Ramses was NOT a philosopher, he was a powerful Egyptian pharaoh.
500
Helping to mark the center of a city, religious temples, like ziggurats were built tall to do this...
What is to honor the gods?
500
The spreading of an idea from one place to another, like the spread of Buddhism from India to China is called this...
What is cultural diffusion?
500
This is the most important thing Greek philosophers believed people should do in life.
What is use the human mind to think and understand life.
500
Of these groups, this one did NOT threaten Rome and help cause it to fall...
Huns - Goths - Vandals - Byzantines - Visigoths
What is the Byzantines. (They wouldn't really exist until well after the Roman Empire fell)
500
This area, meaning "between the rivers" is marked by the letter "X" on the map.