Terms
Bonus $$$400 Each city and the surrounding land it controlled
City State
Thick, rich mud, good for farming
Silt
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Important river in Egypt
Nile
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Monsoons
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Priests used these to answer questions, scratched questions on them.
Oracle Bones
Belief in more than one God
Polytheism
Series of rulers from a single family
Dynasty
Egyptian god kings
Pharaoh
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40,800 years old
Bonus $$$$ 400 A ruler had to have this in order to rule or else they could be overthrown.
Mandate of Heaven
Government based on religious rule.
Theocracy
Bonus $$$ 600 Process in which a new idea or product spreads from one culture to another.
Cultural diffusion
Two reasons why they switched from Pyramids to Tombs?
Easier to build, easier to hide, easier to protect, people stealing from Pyramids, took a long time to build.
Two rivers in India
Ganges and Indus
Huang He deposits huge amounts of silt called what? Super fertile and found in North America as well.
Loess
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Sub Continent
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Tigris and Euphrates
Egyptian writing was called and what writing surface did they invent?
Hieroglyphics and papyrus
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Himalayas
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Huang He and Yangtze
Earliest form of writing.
Cuneiform
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1. How did people in Mesopotamia settle?
2. What did they do to deal with lack of barriers?
3. Did their rivers have predictable or unpredictable flooding?
1. Between the rivers. Or city states.
2. Mudbrick walls
3. Unpredictable
Bonus $1000. What is the largest pyramid in Egypt called?
Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu)
Bonus $$$$1000 What is the Out of Africa Theory? How is this backed up? When did larger groups leave? Within 10,000 years.
Theory that states early humans left Africa to spread out all over the planet, eventually coming to dominate it. this is backed up not only by fossil records, but also by studying the DNA of people as they spread out. Large groups began to leave Africa around 60,000 years ago.
Bonus $$$1000 The Chinese language was super tough. How many characters did you have to know in order to be a true scholar? (Within 500 characters)
10,000