Geography
This "natural disaster" was actually helpful to ancient civilizations because it left behind fertile soil good for growing crops.
Floods
True or False: The Egyptians believed in many gods.
True
Mesopotamians invented this to keep records of trade.
Cuneiform
True or False: Women in ancient Mesopotamia could own property, divorce and hold positions in the government.
True
This was done to girls in ancient china to make them "manageable wives"
Foot binding
This mountain range serves as a natural barrier in outer China, blocking travel and trade.
Himalayas
In ancient Mesopotamia, this king told his people his law code was from the gods.
King Hammurabi
Wheelbarrows, sickles, irrigation tunnels, and plows were all inventions that helped improve this.
Agriculture, farming, food supply
In all three ancient civilizations, people were captured as this and made into slaves.
Prisoners of War
In Mesopotamia, if a woman was caught cheating, this was the punishment.
Tied together and thrown into the river.
These two rivers give Mesopotamia its name as the land between the rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates
In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was believed to this god while living.
Horus
The way to create this invention was kept secret. It was punishable by death if you told a foreigner the recipe.
Silk
This civilization had the strictest social class. They believed society would collapse, like a pyramid, if people moved from the class they were born into.
Egypt
This is a mythical creature with the body of a lion and head of a man. It was made into a statue that guarded the pharaohs tomb.
Sphinx
In this part of China there are deserts that grow so hot that raindrops evaporate before hitting the ground, making it a bad place for the first civilization.
Outer
These Mesopotamian temples were very tall structures with staircases. They were used to worship the gods.
Ziggurats
The ancient Chinese invented this to detect the location of earthquakes.
Seismograph
This was created in Egypt with pyramids for the Pharaoh and China with terracotta warriors for the emperor to ensure they arrived safely in the afterlife.
Tomb
In the Ballad of Mulan, what does she compare herself and her war comrades to at the end of the poem?
Hare (Rabbit)
Because of the regular flooding of the Nile, Egyptians could create accurate these.
Calendars
In ancient China, this belief allowed the emperor to rule until signs from the gods told the people it was time for a new ruler.
Mandate of Heaven
The teachings of this man caused the Han dynasty to hire people for government jobs based on their skills and abilities, not on their family.
Confucius
Which group of people was more respected in ancient China than any other ancient civilization?
This pharaoh was a woman who ruled with a fake beard in order to make people more comfortable with a woman leader.
Hatshepsut