Mesopotamia
The four empires of Mesopotamia
What is Akkadia, Babylon, Assyria, and Neo-Babylon?
The two main cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
This river was the foundation of Ancient China's early civilization
What is the Huang He/Yellow River?
The Pharoah was the last Egypt ever had
Who is Cleopatra?
A person who studies the past by examining artifacts left behind is called this
What is an archeologist?
Civilization's earliest and most complete code of laws was written by this king of Babylon
Who is Hammurabi?
The Indus Valley Civilization existed in these two modern day countries
What is India and Pakistan?
The first example of this practice that there is archeological evidence of in China is the Shang _________
What is a dynasty?
The Nile River flows north from ________ Egypt to _________ Egypt, and before leaving through the Nile Delta
What is Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt?
This type of source is an immediate, first hand account of a topic from those who had a direct connection with it
What is a primary source?
This wedge shaped writing was the first written language ever recorded
What is cuneiform?
Likely used for religious ceremonies, this architectural wonder of Mohenjo-Daro is known as this
What is The Great Bath?
These four religions/philosophies still have lasting influence in China today
What is Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism?
One of the earliest known paper-like products, this item was invented in Egypt and named after the plant it derives from
What is Papyrus?
The five themes of geography
What is Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, and Movement?
Meaning "the land between two rivers," Mesopotamia sat between these two bodies of water
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (Tigris-Euphrates River System)?
As evidenced by artifacts found in various regions, historians know the people of the Indus Valley traded with these two early civilizations
What is Mesopotamia and China?
Tea, spices, and jade were exported from China along which famous trade route?
What is The Silk Road/Routes?
These were considered gifts of the Nile
What is... drinking/bathing water, fertile soil for agriculture, fish and waterfowl, methods of transportation?
These Mesopotamian pyramid like structures were called this
What is a ziggurat?
These large stone structures were what Hammurabi's code was written on
What is a Stele?
Historians consider these three theories to be the likely way the Indus Valley died off
What is conquering, climate change (shift in the river), and migration (cultural changes)?
Notable accomplishments from Ancient China include the invention of paper, gunpowder, and the early use of this mixed metal?
What is Bronze?
This item discovered inside an Egyptian wall allowed for historian to translate the lost meaning of the Heiroglyphs
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These three ancient (or new) wonders of the world were created by the Mesopotamians, Chinese, and Egyptians
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (ancient wonder), Great Pyramids at Giza (ancient wonder), and the Great Wall of China (new wonder)?