City States in Mesopotamia
This climate surrounds all sides of the Fertile Crescent.
What is desert?
This ancient Egyptian king united Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
Who is Menes?
These winds create the wet and dry seasons in Southeast Asia.
What are monsoons?
This yellow silt gives the Huang He its name.
What is loess?
Frequent of these events led to the Sumerian city-state establishing full time monarchs.
What are wars?
This region of ancient Egypt is in the northern most part, close to the Nile Delta.
What is Lower Egypt?
This river had unpredictable flooding, but allowed for trade with other civilizations via the ocean.
What is the Indus River?
According to legend, this man developed irrigation and flood control systems that helped tame the Huang He.
Who is Yu the Great?
This king unsuccessfully searched for the secret to immortality in this early Mesopotamian work of literture.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This person was at the center of Egyptian government, religion, and military.
Who is pharaoh?
Cities in the Indus River civilization were planned on this system.
What is a grid?
In ancient Chinese culture, this was considered the most important virtue.
What is "Respect your parents/elders"?
It is from this that we get sayings like "an eye for an eye," and "a tooth for a tooth."
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
In Egyptian mythology, a person's heart was weighed against this object to determine their afterlife.
What is a feather?
The discovery of these items leads archaeologists to believe that the Indus Valley civilization was prosperous and peaceful.
What are children's toys?
In ancient Chinese religion, spirits of these people could serve as helpful or troublesome neighbors.
Who are family ancestors?
This person was the world's first emperor and adopted many aspects of Sumerian culture.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
Egyptian priests used this star in the night sky to develop a calendar only 6 hours off from today's modern calendar.
What is Sirius?
What is unable to decipher writing system OR floods may have washed away archaeological evidence?
The Zhou Dynasty controlled ancient China through this political system in which nobles were granted the use of land that legally belonged to the king.
What is feudalism?