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The first cities emerged along the fertile banks of which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
This Egyptian script is the same written language that you composed and translated in class.
Hieroglyphics
These are the names of the two largest cities in the ancient Indus River Valley.
Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro
Cities and dynasties first arose in China by harnessing the power of which two rivers?
Yellow and Yangzi Rivers
The term “Celtic” refers to this branch of the Indo-European family of languages found throughout Europe and in western and southern Asia.
Indo-European
This was the name given to religious temples in Mesopotamia.
Ziggurat
This god of writing is the same god of writing who wrote you notes in hieroglyphics and sent you on a Quest.
Thoth
The writing system of the Indus River Valley civilizations differs from the writing systems of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China in this way.
We can’t translate them
In 2000 BCE, one thousand years after its emergence in the Middle East, Chinese metallurgists figured out that they could cast this alloy out of copper and tin.
Bronze
The widely diffused Celtic groups organized themselves into hundreds of small, loosely organized chiefdoms rather than one of these.
State
This annual event held in ancient Babylon was the PARTY OF THE YEAR! It honored the city’s patron deity and involved a ritual humiliation of the King.
Babylonian New Year Celebration!
This pharaoh, who was the first to rule over a unified Egypt, is also referred to as the Scorpion King.
Menes / Narmer
The inscriptions on these ancient artifacts from the Indus River Valley afford scholars their best glimpse at that region’s ancient writing system, still unknown.
Seals
This ancient Chinese dynasty ruled the core region of the Yellow. River Valley without leaving a single written record.
The Xia
The first historical accounts of Celtic peoples came from the observations of which two classical societies?
Greeks and Romans
This military dictator hailed from the Mesopotamian city-state of Akkad, later rising to fame as the region’s first imperial ruler.
Sargon the Great
The Nile River flows in this direction.
North
This mountain range, the tallest in all the world, prevented the invasion of the Indus River Valley by groups from the north.
The Himalayas
This yellow-brown dust blew in from Central Asia, providing Neolithic peoples of the Yellow River Valley with an abundance of fertile land well-suited for agriculture.
Loess
This elite group monopolized the wealth and power of ancient Celtic societies, placing them at the top of Celtic social hierarchies.
Warriors
This is what “Mesopotamia” means in Greek
Land between two rivers
This 18th-Dynasty pharaoh brought monotheism to Egypt
Akhenaten
Peoples of the Indus River Valley traded with this region of the ancient world
Mesopotamia
The ancient Chinese concept, which emphasized the spatial orientation of buildings according to a sense of cosmic order, influenced how the first dynasties thought about urban planning.
Feng shui
The Celtic origins of Halloween
Samhain