Mesopotamia
Without this river, Egypt would be nothing but desert
The Nile River
How we deciphered the Indus valley seals
We didn't!
Concept justified the rule of Chinese emperors
Mandate of Heaven
Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics
What was the system of writing in Mesopotamia?
What is cuneiform
Writing system of the Indus Valley
What are pictographs on small seals
Known as 'River of Sorrow' or 'China's Sorrow'
What is the Huang He river
Mountain range that borders China and India
What are the Himalayas
Mesopotamia means the land between rivers. Which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Egyptian rulers were believed to be living gods. This type of government is called a ____________
Theocracy
The two major cities in the Indus River Valley were
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
First two Chinese dynasties
Shang and Zhou
Series of rulers from a single family is referred to as a
Dynasty
The earliest written code of law was
Hammurabi's Code
what are the two parts of Egypt?
Upper and Lower Egypt
Indus and Ganges
Two main rivers of ancient China
Huang He and Yangtze
in ancient Mesopotamia, a rectangular stepped temple
What is a ziggurat
What was Sumer was made up of what?
( known as independent sovereign states that self-governed)
independent city-states
The Pyramids demonstrated that Egyptian rulers had this kind of power
Political and religious
System of city planning using squares to organize cities. Invented in the Indus River Valley.
Grid system
Ancient Chinese writing was done by Shang priests on these
What are oracle bones
Natural feature that helped protect Egypt from invaders
What are deserts