Geography/Environment
Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus River Valley all share this geographic feature that helps with fertile soil.
What are rivers?
This society was ruled by powerful rulers called Pharaohs.
What is Egypt?
What is writing?
Ur, Uruk, and Eridu are three cities from this region.
What is Mesopotamia?
The number of periods historians divide the Egyptian dynasties into.
What is 3?
The Indus River Valley lies partially in these two modern day countries.
What are India and Pakistan?
One could argue this was the most peaceful of three regions we've studied.
What is the Indus River Valley?
This is the name of the writing system used on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This society was the first to achieve large-scale agriculture because it followed the patterns of flooding from its nearby river.
What is Egypt?
Sargon the Great ruled in this century.
What is 2100s BCE?
This area benefited from the protection of the Himalayas and Hindu Kush Mountains to its north.
What is the Indus River Valley?
Sargon the Great was the leader of this empire in Mesopotamia.
These were often found on the buildings and monuments of ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
Societies in Mesopotamia were organized this way.
What is in a hierarchy or hierarchical?
The Indus River Valley lasted for about this many years or during these centuries.
When is c. 3200 - 1300 BCE?
These two valuable materials were a source of wealth in the Indus River Valley.
What are copper and lapos lazuli?
These 4 things were controlled by the Egyptian government.
What is religion, military, agriculture, and labor?
The seals found in the Indus River Valley primary featured this.
What are animals?
Having this allowed societies to grow and become more complex.
What is an agricultural surplus?
Around this year is when city-states first started forming in Mesopotamia. (+-100 years)
What is 3800 BCE?
The expansion of the desert led people in this area to moving closer together around this nearby river.
What is Egypt and the Nile?
What is the Macedonian Empire?
These poems from Mesopotamia are some of the first recorded pieces of literature. (name one or name both for double points)
What is the The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Exaltation of Inanna?
There was no strong evidence of these types of leaders in the Indus River Valley.
What are individual rulers, priests, or armies?
This is the amount of time the kingdoms of Egypt collectively ruled. (+-100 years)
What is 1617 years?