Mesopotamia
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What mountain range separates India from the rest of Asia and includes Mount Everest?
What are the Himalayas?
What famous trade route connected China to the Middle East and Europe, allowing people to exchange goods like silk, spices, and ideas?
What is the Silk Road?
What is the name of the rich, dark soil left behind when the Nile flooded each year, making farming possible?
What is silt?
What river was considered sacred to the people of Ancient India and still is today?
What is the Ganges River?
This type of writing was used in Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
In ancient Indian beliefs, what is the idea that a person’s actions in this life will affect what happens to them in their next life?
What is Karma?
What long defensive wall was built to protect China from northern invaders?
What is the Great Wall of China?
What natural barrier to the west of the Nile protected Egypt from invasions and influenced their belief in the afterlife?
What is the Sahara Desert?
What material did the Egyptians write on that was made from reeds growing along the Nile?
What is papyrus?
What is the most famous invention that the Sumerians are most remembered for creating?
What is the wheel?
Who was the leader in India known for using nonviolent protest to help gain independence from British rule?
Who was Gandhi?
Which river is often called “China’s Sorrow” because of its dangerous floods?
What is the Yellow River?
What famous boy pharaoh’s tomb was discovered almost completely untouched in 1922 by Howard Carter?
Who was King Tutankhamun (King Tut)?
What army of life-sized clay soldiers was buried to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife?
What is the TerraCotta Army?
These are the names of the rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What system in Ancient India divided people into social classes based on jobs and birth?
What is the Caste System?
This invention was kept a secret by the Chinese.
What is silk?
What female pharaoh expanded trade and built magnificent temples, including one at Deir el-Bahri?
Who is Hatshepsut?
What discovery by archaeologists in 1799 helped scholars finally translate Egyptian hieroglyphics?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What structure did Mesopotamians build that looked like a pyramid with steps, used as a temple for their gods?
What is a ziggurat?
Which ancient civilization, located in the Indus River Valley, is known for its advanced city planning, grid-like streets, and indoor plumbing systems?
Who are the Harappans? (Indus Valley Civilization)
This was the first dynasty of Ancient China
What is the Shang Dynasty?
What was the writing system of Ancient Egypt called, made up of picture symbols that represented sounds, words, and ideas?
What is hieroglyphics?
What famous code of laws, created by a Babylonian king, is remembered for its harsh punishments and the phrase “an eye for an eye”?
What is Hammurabi's Code?