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Known as "the Land Between Two Rivers"

What is Mesopotamia?

100
The earliest Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Sumerians?
100

The river that Egypt was built around.

What is the Nile River?

100

When a person believes in many gods and goddesses.

What is polytheism?

100
The crop that was grown in China.
What is rice?
200

This geographical feature acted as a natural barrier that protected and isolated Egypt.

What is the Eastern and Western Desert?
200
The rivers of significance in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200

The direction the Nile flows.

What is North?

200

A staircase building in Mesopotamia that served a religious and political purpose.

What is a ziggurat?

200
The teachers of many ancient Chinese philosophies.
Who are Confucius and Laozi?
300

The Sumerians had to make this for protection as they had no natural barrier from invaders.

What are city walls?

300
The writing of ancient Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
300

The God of the Dead who weighs people's soul.

Who is Osiris?

300

When a person accused of a crime must successfully complete a particular challenge to prove their innocence

Who is trial by ordeal?

300
The two rivers of ancient Chinese civilizations.
What are the Yellow (Huang He) and Yangze Rivers?
400

Fertile soil deposits left behind after a flood

What is silt?

400

A code of law written in ancient Babylon.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

400
The two Kingdoms in Egypt.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
400

When ideas or products spread from one culture to another through conquest and trade

What is cultural diffusion?

400
The doctrine of Daoism.
Who is believe in the laws of nature?
500
This was invented to help desert farmers in Mesopotamia and Egypt

What is irrigation?

500
The ancient heroic story written in cuneiform.
What is "The Epic of Gilgamesh"?
500
The jars carrying embalmed pharaoh's organs.
What are canopic jars?
500

Three inventions of the ancient Mesopotamians that remain today

What is bronze, the wheel, the plow, 60 minutes, and a trade network that would eventually become the silk Road? 

500
The cycle of leaders in China.
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
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