Key Terms
A series of rulers from the same family
dynasty
The word Mesopotamia means this
Land between two rivers
Instrument used for “writing” on clay tablets
Stylus
How was the Pharaoh viewed in ancient Egypt?
As a god
The name of the desert in China
Gobi desert
The shift from hunting/gathering to agriculture is known as this
The Neolithic Age
The type of soil found in the Fertile Crescent and other places with flooding rivers.
Silt
A man-made object from the past
An artifact
The Nile River Flowed this way
From south to north
How Chinese goods made it all the way to Rome
The Silk Road
The world’s first emperor
Sargon (Thargon)
This king was the emperor of Babylon
Hammurabi
Sumerians developed a math system based on this number
60
The kingdom known for government growth and monument building
The Old Kingdom
The name of the peasant who started the Han Dynasty
Liu Bang
The Hebrew name of Jesus
Yeshua
This man was the king of the Chaldeans
Nebuchadnezzar
People who knew how to read and write
Scribes
The kingdom known for pharaoh losing control to the nobles
The Middle Kingdom
How the Zhou Dynasty controlled distant lands
By appointing lords to rule over lands and people
A tall four sided pillar with a pointed top (must answer and correctly spell)
Obelisk
These people had war chariots, allowing them to conquer many places in Mesopotamia
The Assyrians
In ancient Sumer, people lived in areas called
City-States
The ruler of Upper Egypt who rose to power in about 3100 BC
Menes
The Great Wall of China is this long (hint: ends in 00)
4000 miles