Egypt
Geography
Mesopotamia/Phoenicians
Historical Studies
Ancient China & India
100
The area of Egypt where the Nile emptied into the Mediterranean Sea was known as this.
What is Lower Egypt?
100
These are the largest chain of mountains in the world located in northern India?
What are the Himalayas?
100
This was a pyramid-shaped temple that rose above Sumerian cities.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This is the study of the past?
What is history?
100
What the Zhou and Chin dynasties claimed gave them the power to rule by the gods' favor.
mandate of heaven
200
The northern part of Egypt was known as Lower Egypt because of this factor.
What is the direction the Nile River flowed?
200
These are the three main things that move.
What are ideas, goods, and people?
200
This was the basic unit of government that Ancient Sumer was composed of.
What are city states?
200
This is an account of a time or event by someone who lived during that time or witnessed the event.
What is a primary source?
200
What is one of the two main rivers that civilizations began around in Ancient India?
Ganges or Indus
300
These were the three major eras of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom?
300
These are the five themes of geography.
What is location, place, movement, human-environment interaction, and region?
300
This was the famous piece of literature from Ancient Sumer that many believe was the first great epic ever composed.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
300
This is a community of people sharing a complex culture?
What is a civilization?
300
What is one of the two main rivers civilization developed in around China?
Yellow or Yangtze
400
This was the man given credit for uniting upper and lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
400
This is a low, triangle shaped land formed at the mouth of some rivers (like the Nile) by the silt the river drops there.
What is a delta?
400
This was one of the Sumerian's greatest cultural advances - the world's first system of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
400
The focus on this is the significant difference history has from other ways we learn about the past.
What are written records?
400
This is the attitude developed in China of having the proper respect within relationships inside one's family and beyond.
What is filial piety?
500
The belief in this shaped ancient Egyptian culture and beliefs.
What is belief in the afterlife?
500
This is the landform that Ancient Civilizations primarily settled around.
What are rivers?
500
This was the greatest contribution of the Ancient Phoenicians to the world.
What is the sound based alphabet?
500
This is what archaeologists focus on in their studies.
What are artifacts?
500
These are seasonal winds that occur twice a year in Southeast Asia.
What are monsoons?
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