Languages
This was the first written language used by the Sumerians
What is Cuneiform?
These are the bones of small animals and tortoise shells used by Shang Kings to talk with their ancestors.
What are oracle bones?
This is a system of government in which local lords govern their own lands but owed military service and other kinds of support to their ruler.
What is feudalism?
This first set of laws was named after the King who made them.
This is a governmental system where a religious figure rules, like Ancient Egypt and China.
What is theocracy?
This was the writing system used by the Egyptians.
What are Hieroglyphics?
These are the two cities that were believed to be the twin capitals of the Indus Valley Civilizations.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
This was the system of government used by the Egyptians where the government officials were responsible for running the majority of the government.
What is Bureaucracy?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt into the Egyptian Civilization.
Who is King Menes/Narmer?
These are the balancing forces of the universe, according to Ancient China.
What are Ying and Yang?
This is the civilization whose language we still cannot read.
What is Indus River Valley Civilization/Harappa?
This is the term that drives the Dynastic Cycle in Ancient China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This civilization created the wheel, bronze, and the sundial among other things.
Who are the Sumerians?/What is Sumer?
Thse were the first two OFFICIAL dynasties of China
Who are the Shang and the Zhou?
Egyptians used this method to preserve bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification/making mummies?
This was the item that helped crack the code to decoding Hieroglyphics.
He was the chief minister who supervised the business of government in Egypt
Who is the vizier?
This king created the first peace treaty.
Who is Ramses II?
This Queen extended the Egyptian Kingdom to its largest size.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
Egyptians would be buried with this book to help them in the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
This is the reason why the Chinese writing system was difficult to learn.
What is it uses thousands of characters?
This civilization laid their cities out in a grid and had indoor plumming.
What is the Harappa/Indus River Valley Civilizations?
This is why it is hard to know a lot about Harappa/Indus River Valley Civilization.
What is we can't read their writings?
This king conquered and united Mesopotamia under one empire.
Who is Sargon I?
You hoped this Egyptian God would find your heart lighter than the feather of truth so you could pass on to the Fields of Plenty.
Who is Osiris?