Environment
Political structure
Writing system
Technology
Religion
100
This river flooded regularly and predictably in an area that is a desert and sees no rain.
What is the Nile
100
This civilization had highly planned cities, some evidence of class differentiation, yet little evidence of war or all-powerful, "god-like" rulers.
What is the Indus River Valley civilization.
100
This artifact, discovered in 1799, was the key to interpreting hieroglyphic writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
100
This building innovation made agriculture and habitation along the rich floodplain of the Indus River possible after 6,000 years ago
What is flood control in the form of encompassing village walls
100
This Egyptian structure was thought to be the Pharaoh's "ladder" to the afterlife.
What is a pyramid?
200
A changing river course could have contributed to the downfall of this civilization.
What is the Indus River Valley civilization.
200
This was the basic sociopolitical structure of pre-unified/pre-dynastic Egypt
What is a "Nome."
200
This was likely the first writing system ever invented.
What is Sumerian cuneiform?
200
This technology was key to expanding and prolonging agricultural production on the Nile flood plain, especially in years of reduced flooding.
What is irrigation?
200
During the "Old Kingdom" in Egypt, the Pharaoh was thought to be this god's manifestation on earth.
What is Ra or Ra/Horakhtv
300
This river valley was the setting for both the Lung-shan and Shang dynasty civilizations.
What is the Huang ho or Yellow River valley?
300
The first pharaohs of ALL Egypt were from this settlement in Lower Egypt.
What is Nekhen or Hierakonpolis?
300
This ancient script remains indecipherable.
What is the Indus script?
300
This construction technique began being used to make walls and ramparts around Chinese cities during the Lung-shan culture period.
What is Hang t'u or stamped earth?
300
This Egyptian religious concept and sometimes deity represented order, harmony, truth, and justice.
What is ma'at?
400
This could have been the man-made cause of desertification and erosion in the Indus River Valley.
What is overgrazing and deforestation (de-shrubbing?) for fueling pottery kilns.
400
This tableau, discovered near the Abydos cemetery, is thought to depict the unification of Upper Egypt.
What is the "Scorpion tableau"?
400
The Chinese script is an example of this kind of script, which is the opposite of a phonographic script.
What is a logographic script?
400
By 1700 B.C. this technological "age" was well underway in China.
What is the Bronze Age?
400
The seal of Pashupati likely represents an early manifestation of this Hindu god.
What is Shiva?
500
The name for this ancient civilization derives from the Greek for "between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia? (Tigris and Euphrates rivers)
500
The plow and wheel were developed during this period of Mesopotamian history.
What is the Ubaid period?
500
This term describes the first instances of Chinese writing, which were found inscribed on animal shoulder-blades.
What is the oracle-bone script?
500
These innovative stone/bone tools were used by the Natufians to harvest wild (and eventually, cultivated) grain.
What is a sickle?
500
These vessels represented the connection between earth and heaven, and held alcohol during rituals.
What are t'sung tubes.
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