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100
This river was important to ancient Egypt because it provided rich silt when it flooded, allowed for transportation and was part of Egyptian religion.
What is the Nile?
100
This ancient civilization used oracle bones to help predict the future and communicate with gods.
What is ancient China?
100
This is the word for a religious ceremony.
What is ritual?
100
This is a ruling family who passes power down from generation to generation.
What is a dynasty?
100
The Rosetta Stone translated this ancient language.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The Indus and Ganges Rivers gain water from snow melting from which mountain range?
What are the Himalaya?
200
These people used both hieroglyphics for formal, religious writing, and hieratic script, for common, governmental writing.
Who are the Egyptians?
200
Believing in only one god is this type of religion.
What is monotheistic?
200
The leader of ancient Egypt was called this.
What is a pharaoh?
200
These were nomadic people who migrated from Central Asia.
Who are the Indo-Europeans?
300
Ancient Chinese civilization began around this river.
What is the Yellow (Huang He)?
300
These people created a 22 letter alphabet that would later influence the Greek and Latin alphabets.
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
This is the writing that was used by Aryans in the Indus Valley.
What is Sanskrit?
300
This is a material formed by volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
300
This dynasty ruled China first, after the Xia dynasty.
What is the Shang?
400
This is a strong, seasonal wind that brings heavy rain to South Asia.
What is a monsoon?
400
The center of this civilization was Monte Alban.
What is the Zapotec?
400
This is the term for respecting and listening to the eldest member of the family.
What is filial piety?
400
This is the term for a government organization.
What is a bureaucracy?
400
This was the longest lasting dynasty of China.
What is the Zhou?
500
These two cities were the first in the Indus Valley and were both well-organized.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
500
This group was broken into tribes who would form Judaism.
Who are the Israelites?
500
This is the Chinese term meaning, "the correct way."
What is Dao?
500
This is the term for the wealthy, landowning members of a society who pass their wealth down from generation to generation.
What is the aristocracy?
500
This civilization developed in the Mediterranean and was most likely conquered by the Mycenaeans.
Who are the Minoans?
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