Geography
Early Civilizations
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Europe
Wild Card
100
The type of terrain/region inhabited by the Mongols and Indo-Europeans prior to Eurasian contact
What is the steppe?
100
The first known civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
First known dynasty in China.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
100
The nomadic invaders from the northern Eurasian continent.
Who are the Indo-Europeans or Mongols?
100
Muslim title that means "successor" or "deputy."
What is caliph?
200
Mountains and valleys
What type of terrain makes of southern Greece?
200
Created the first known written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The mythical dynasty of ancient China.
What is the Xia?
200
First leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Constantine I?
200
Early writing system, developed from pictographs, in Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
The two rivers flowing through modern day Iraq where the earliest civilization developed.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
Name used for rulers in ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
Liu Bang found this dynasty.
What is the Han Dynasty?
300
Believed that all Muslim leaders should be descended from Muhammad.
Who are the Shi'a?
300
Blending of Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Greek cultures.
What is Hellenistic culture?
400
Location of the Harappan civilization.
What is the Indus River Valley?
400
Empire at one time ruled by Sennacherib.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
400
Chandra Gupta founded this empire.
What is the Gupta Empire?
400
City located on the Dnieper River once ruled by Princess Olga.
What is Kiev?
400
Name of the period between 794-1185 "ruled" by the social elite.
What is the Heian Period?
500
The major geographical challenges to settlement in Africa.
What are the Sahara and Kalahari deserts and the rain forests?
500
The kingdom that ruled in eastern Africa (present day northern Ethiopia).
What is the Kingdom of Aksum (or Aksumite Empire)?
500
The earliest religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
500
One of the first migrating, Muslim Turkish groups.
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
500
Seafaring people of that dominated trade from the island of Crete, 2000-1400 BC.
Who were the Minoans?
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