Vocabulary
This refers to the title of the Egyptian monarch who possessed absolute power.
Who is the pharaoh?
This was a large complex of buildings dedicated to the dead.
What are pyramids?
This group of people is best known for creating a 22 letter alphabet.
Bonus 100: they are also known for this
What is establishing trade routes?
This invention was used to clear the jungle in India.
What is the iron plow?
This king established the army of the Israelites.
Who is King Solomon?
The way in which the dead was preserved by the wealthy Egyptians.
What is mummification?
The three periods of Egyptian history were called this.
What are the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms?
These were significant nomadic people who derived from a single parent tongue.
Who are the Indo-Europeans?
Life in India was centered around this.
Bonus 200: a seasonal wind pattern in Southern Asia.
What is the family unit?
What is a monsoon?
This was a distinct group organized in tribes that established the religion of Judaism.
Who are the Israelites?
This was a complex system of writing meaning "sacred writings" used by the Egyptians.
What are heiroglyphics?
Egyptian rulers were viewed as this.
What is earthly forms of the gods?
These people were hunter gather societies who created communities and later empires.
Who are pastoral nomads?
Life in India was centered around this.
What is the family unit?
The most visible symbol of men's dominance in the Indian culture was this ritual.
What is suttee?
This group of mountains are collectively the tallest in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
The most important development of Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
The Hittites were the first Europeans to do this.
What is use iron weapons?
These Indo-speaking nomads had a strong warrior tradition.
Who are the Aryans?
Briefly describe why Judaism came into conflict with other religions of the time.
Separated themselves from the rest of the world by being monotheistic
Would not accept other religion’s gods
Led to a schism and a separation from the rest of the world
This weather pattern in Southern Asia effected the growth of plants.
What is a monsoon?
The time of the middle kingdom was most known for this.
What is Egypt experienced a golden age of stability and expansion?
This group was a famous group of pastoral nomads destroyed by "the Sea People"
Who are the Hittites?
Describe how the Indus Valley civilizations were similar to Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Their rulers believed they were divine.
They used seasonal weather patterns to capitalize on growing.
They emerged from river valleys.
Briefly describe the history of the Jewish people after King Solomon.
After Solomon’s death there were two kingdoms established: Israel and Judah
Kingdom of Israel was overran by Assyria
Kingdom of Judah was overran by Chaldeans
Persia returned the people of Judah to their home