Mesopotamia
Who wrote all the Codes and Laws?
Hammurabi
Who united Upper and Lower Egypt into one Kingdom?
Narmer
What are they most famous for creating? (In Text Book)
Plumbing
The yellow river deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its banks. This silt is actually fertile soil called
Loess
What is Mr. H's favorite color?
Red
The region’s curved shape and the richness of its land led scholars to call it the?
Fertile Crescent
To the Egyptians, kings were gods. The Egyptian god-kings, called?
Pharaohs
What are seasonal winds called?
Monsoon
What are animal bones and tortoiseshells on which priests had scratched questions for the gods?
Oracle Bones
What southern Wisconsin town did Mr. H grow up in?
Edgerton
Each city and the surrounding land it controlled formed a?
City-State
This type of government in which rule is based on religious authority is called a?
Geographers often refer to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as the Indian?
Harappan Civilization
a political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king?
Feudalism
What college does Mr. H attend?
Marquette
These rulers usually passed their power on to their sons, who eventually passed it on to their own heirs. Such a series of rulers from a single family is called a?
Alabama in football
Dynasty
For the kings of the Old Kingdom, the rest-ing place after death was an immense structure called a?
What river was this civilization located on?
Indus River
A just ruler had divine approval, known as the?
Mandate of Heaven
What European city did Mr. H live in for 6 months?
Prague
This process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another is called?
Cultural Diffusion
Simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing in Egypt, but scribes quickly developed a more flexible writing system called?
Hieroglyphics
Geographers often refer to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan, andBangladesh as the Indian?
Subcontinent
Historians describe the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties as the?
Dynastic Cycle
What does Mr. H have tattooed on his thigh?
Chinese Food Takeout Box