Geography
This river was essential to life in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptians believed in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Egyptians built these giant tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Egypt was ruled by this type of leader believed to be a god.
What is a pharaoh?
Most people in these civilizations worked in this job.
What is farming?
This region is known as the “Land Between Two Rivers.”
What is Mesopotamia?
This river was considered sacred in Ancient India.
What is the Ganges River?
This writing system was used in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamia was made up of these small, independent areas.
What are city-states?
People traded goods instead of using money.
What is bartering?
This mountain range helped protect Ancient India from invaders.
What are the Himalayas?
Egyptians believed they needed to preserve bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This writing system used symbols and pictures in Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
This famous Mesopotamian king created a law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
This resource made land fertile for farming.
What is silt?
These two rivers were important to Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This belief system began in Ancient India and includes karma and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
This ancient Indian city showed advanced city planning with drains.
What is Mohenjo-Daro (or Harappa)?
This river valley civilization had planned cities but no clear ruler evidence.
hat is Ancient India (Indus Valley)?
Mesopotamia traded because they lacked this natural resource.
What is natural resources (like wood or stone)?
This seasonal flooding helped farmers in all three civilizations.
What is fertile soil from river flooding?
This Mesopotamian structure was used for religious worship.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamians created this early set of laws.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
In Egypt, religion and government were closely connected.
What is a theocracy?
Ancient India traded goods like spices and cotton using these routes.
What are trade routes?