Mesopotamia
The region’s curved shape and the richness of its land led scholars to call it
The Fertile Crescent
The belief in more than one god is called
Polytheistic
Seasonal winds that dominate India’s climate
Monsoon
(The team who picked this can't answer and this is worth 200) Egyptian god-kings
Pharaoh
Such a series of rulers from a single family is called
Dynasty
The word in Greek means “land between the rivers.”
Mesopotamia
Brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.
Empire
A large, distinguishable part of a continent
Subcontinent
For the kings of the Old Kingdom, the resting place after death was an immense structure called a
Pyramid
Started to use bronze instead of stone
Bronze Age
Sumerian form of writing
Cuneiform
Large structure which means “mountain of god.”
Ziggurat
Another name for the Indus Valley civilization
Harappan
Egyptian form of writing
Hieroglyphics
Historians describe the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties as the
Dynastic Cycle
(The team who's picked this, picks one team besides themselves to answer) Although hieroglyphs were first written on stone and clay, as in Mesopotamia, the Egyptians soon invented a better writing surface
Papyrus
(Worth 800 points) This type of government in which rule is based on religious authority is called a
Theocracy
This silt is actually fertile soil called
Loess
A broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river.
Delta
(The team in 2nd gets to pick a team who can't answer) Shang dynasty 1765–1123 b.c. in divination by writing a question upon it, heating it, and divining the answer from the resultant cracks
Oracle Bones
Each city and the surrounding land it controlled formed
City-State
This process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another is called
Cultural Diffusion
(Worth 1000 points) A just ruler had divine approval, known as the
Mandate of Heaven
United all of Egypt
Narmer
A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king
Feudalism