What was the ancient writing system of Mesopotaimia
What is Cuneiform?
What is the famous river that flows through Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What are the 2 main rivers that flow through India
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
What are the 2 main rivers that flow through China?
What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?
What was the mother culture of this region?
What is the Olmec?
What famous river flows through this region?
What is the Amazon river?
What is the settlement along the Mississippi River, in Louisiana?
What is Poverty Point?
What were the ancient monuments built by the Mesopotamians?
What are ziggurats?
What were the ancient monuments of the Egyptians called?
What are pyramids?
What was the biggest invention of the Indus River Valley civilization?
What are sewers?
What was the first Chinese dynasty?
What is the Shang Dynasty?
What game did the Olmecs create?
What is the Mesoamerican ballgame?
What is the main city of the Norte Chico civilization?
What is Caral?
When and where was Judaism founded?
In Mesopotamia, in 1500 B.C
What is thought be the first city ever made is Mesopotamia?
What is Ur?
What was the ancient writing system of the Egyptians?
What are hieroglyphics?
What is the top of Mohenjo-Daro called?
What is a stupa?
What was the main form of writing for the Chinese Dynasties?
What is a pictograph?
What grain did they domesticate?
What is corn/maize?
Where is the Norte Chico located?
What is Peru and/or Andes Mountains?
What are the 3 main cities of Kush?
What are Kerma, Napata, Meroe?
What were the 4 important civilizations in the Mesopotamian region?
What are the Sumerians, Babylonians, Akkadians, and Assyrians
Where did the Egyptians bury their pharaohs after they stopped building pyramids?
What is the Valley of Kings?
What are the 2 biggest sites of the Indus River Valley civilization?
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
What are Oracle Bones used for and what are they made out of?
They were used to predict the future and they were made out of Scapula of Cattle or turtle shells
What does the word Olmec mean?
Rubber people
What is the instrument that was used to make records in the Norte Chico civilization?
What is quipu?
Approximately when and where was Hinduism founded?
In the Indus River Valley, in about 1700 B.C
What are the 2 rivers that surround Mesopotamia and what does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
The 2 river are the Tigris and the Euphrates and Mesopotamia means "Land between two rivers"
What were the capitals of the Old and New kingdoms of Egypt and how long did each of them last?
What are Memphis and Thebes. Old Kingdom Egypt lasted about 600 years and New Kingdom Egypt lasted about 500 years
What are Ivory and Cotton?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What are Oracle Bones?
Name 3 groups in the region of Mesoamerica besides the Olmec?
What are the Mayans, Aztecs, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Teotihuacanos, and Toltecs
In the museum in class what type of god were they worshipping and why?
They were worshiping a frog god, because they wanted rain
What is the Ancient Hinduism text called?
What are Vedas?