Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
Misc
100
Name the two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The river of Egypt
What is the Nile River?
100
The two rivers of ancient India
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
100
Two major rivers of China
What are the Yangtze (Chiang Jiang) and Huang He (Yellow or China's Sorrow) River?
100
What geographical feature all four civilizations have in common
What are rivers?
200
Name the two mountain ranges surrounding Mesopotamia
What are the Zagros and Taurus Mtns?
200
The direction the river flows and where it empties
What is South to North - empties into the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Why India is considered a sub-continent
What is, it is separated from the rest of Asia by the mountains?
200
China's major crop
What is rice?
200
Why the 4 cradles are similar in climate
What is they are on a similar latitudinal plain?
300
In what direction the rivers flow and where they empty
What is, they flow north to south and empty into the Persian Gulf?
300
The most fertile area of the Nile
What is the Nile Delta?
300
Two mountain ranges that separate India from the rest of Asia
What are the Hindu Kush and Himalaya Mountains?
300
The only habitable areas in a desert are called this
What are Oases?
300
Give two examples of how these civilizations utilized their natural resources
What is, Mud and Clay for houses, pottery Papyrus for paper, boats, etc Fish/Fowl for food?
400
Name three things the Mesopotamians used clay for
What are homes, temples, clay tablets and pottery?
400
Three uses for papyrus
What are Paper, Boats, Roofs, Sandals?
400
A sophisticated planting method used in India
What is crop rotation?
400
The two areas of Inner China
What are the North China Plain and Chiang Jiang Basin?
400
The geographical features which isolated and protected the 4 civilizations (not water)
What are Mountains, Deserts and Plateaus?
500
How plants were domesticated
What are seeds from the best plants were saved each year and sowed the following spring?
500
Invention of the Egyptians using a fulcrum system that helped water their crops
What is a Shaduf?
500
Where the major rivers empty?
What is the Indus River empties into the Arabian Sea and the Ganges River empties into the Bay of Bengal?
500
The three areas of Outer China
What are the Tibetan Plateau, North West Deserts and North East Plain?
500
Name 4 important things rivers provided the early civilizations
What are Water, Fertile Soil, Natural Resources, Trade Routes?
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