Mesopotamia
This was the name of the writing system in Mesopotamia, usually engraved on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Egyptians settled near this major river that flows from south to north and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
The name of the second dynasty of ancient China.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
The people of ancient Egypt and the Shang Dynasty of China believed in this as part of their religion.
What is the afterlife?
These are the two rivers of the fertile crescent that allowed for good farming.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
A series of rulers from a single family is known as this.
What is a dynasty?
Metal artisans used to create many items used in the Shang Dynasty.
What is bronze?
The lowest social class in river valley civilizations was made of these types of people.
What are farmers and slaves?
A temple in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
Many people could not afford the expensive process of mummification, so they buried the dead here to preserve their bodies for the afterlife.
What is the desert?
What religious men wrote on to get answers from the gods.
What are oracle bones?
River valley civilizations worshiped many gods meaning they were...
What is polytheistic?
The first "book" ever written.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
These were grand tombs built for some of the wealthiest pharaohs for the afterlife.
What are pyramids?
This was the belief the Chinese king was given the right to rule from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Flooding was predictable in these two river valley civilizations.
What are Mesopotamia and Egypt?
Invented this important item that we still use today to help us with transportation.
What is the wheel?
This is a government based on religious authority.
What is a theocracy?
The Yellow River was called "China's Sorrow" for this reason.
What was its unpredictable floods?
Used this to get river water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
This man created a code of laws in the city-state of Babylonia in Mesopotamia. Hint: "Eye for an Eye or a tooth for a tooth."
Who is Hammurabi?
The Egyptian system of writing was called this.
What is hieroglyphics?
The reason they call their main river the yellow river.
What is loess or yellow, fertile soil?
Name two types of geography that protected the people living in river valleys from invasion.
What are mountains and deserts?
The ancient Mesopotamians where this, meaning, they believed in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
Paper sheets made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
They used this as their currency.
What are cowrie shells.
Six characteristics needed to be considered a civilization.
What are geography, religion, achievements, politics, economics, and social classes?