Egypt
What is The Nile?
Due to rich soil, what developed in the Fertile Crescent?
What is the first civilization
River that the Indus Valley Civilization was built around
What is the Ganges?
One of the two major rivers that Ancient China developed around
What is the Huang He (Yellow) or Chang Jiang?
Name the Four River Valley Civilizations.
What are Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus, and China?
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
What were tombs for the pharaohs?
What type of government is ruled by divine authority?
What is a Theocracy?
The ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro show evidence of?
What is urban planning?
The Qin Dynasty built this to help protect China's northern border from outside invasions
What is the Great Wall?
What main geographic feature did all begin along?
What is a river?
What process did the Egyptians use to preserve bodies?
What is mummification?
What is cultural diffusion?
Indians adopted this writing system after the Aryan invasion
What is Sanskrit?
Philosophy were rulers were chosen by the Heavens and rulers would change in times of turmoil or unrest
What is the Mandate of Heaven or Dynastic Cycle?
Before towns/cities can develop, there must be a?
What is a surplus of agriculture?
What was the writing style used by the Egyptians?
What were Hieroglyphics?
The name for temples that were built in the middle of cities in Mesopotamia
What are Ziggurats?
The social system created under Hindusim is?
What is the Caste System?
Religion that emerged in Ancient China and focused on filial piety, humaneness, and ritual.
What is Confucianism?
Why was the development of writing important?
It provides written records of the civilizations history so we know how they lived.
Why was the Nile River so important to the development of Egypt?
It gave them fertile soil (called the Black Land) and could be used for trade and transportation.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
what is the first written code of laws?
Development that helped boost trade in India and stretched from China to the Roman Empire
What is the Silk Road?
What is silk?
Name three of the five common characteristics of a civilization.
The five common characteristcs of a civilization are government, religion, writing, specialization of jobs, and surplus of agriculture.