India
What the four social classes in Ancient India were called
What are varnas?
The name of the river that the ancient Egyptian civilization developed around
What is the Nile River?
Who are the Sumerians?
The sea which bordered Mesopotamia
What is the Red Sea?
The name of the largest structure built in Ancient India
What is The Great Bath
The rulers of ancient Egypt
Who are the pharoahs?
A writing system of wedge-shaped characters made from pressing reeds into clay tablets
What is cuneiform?
The term used to describe people taming animals for human benefit
What is domestication?
The sea the Greeks crossed to invade Egypt
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The name of the severe weather which brings heavy wind and rain
What are monsoons?
The writing system of the ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
The structure which was devoted to a particular god of each city which a treasury at the bottom and a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
When people started farming and developed permanent settlements
What is the agricultural revolution?
The body of water which is not an ocean or a sea which borders India
What is the Bay of Bengal?
The name of the natural geographic feature which borders India to the northeast
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
The ritual which prepares the dead for the afterlife which took over a month of preparation and prayer by specific priests
What is mummification?
The first unified set of rules and punishments which covered almost every area of life
What is the Code of Hammurabi
A well-known Neolithic settlement in present day Turkey where archeologists found shrines of early humans and where the people traveled from rooftop to rooftop
What is Catahluyuk?
The highest point of the Himalayan Mountain Range
What is Mt. Everest?
What we call the original civilization that built Mohenjo-Daro
What are Harrapans?
Ancient Egyptian burial structures
What are pyramids?
A people who were fierce fighters, advanced in war technologies and demanded tribute from those they conquered
Who were the Assyrians?
A Neolithic man found in the Austrian Alps
Who is Otsi the Iceman?
The name of the non fertile land next to the Nile river
What is the red land?