What is it called when you dig trenches to ensure your crops are watered.
What is Irrigation.
100
What direction does the Nile River flow?
What is North.
100
What is the name of military leaders that became full time leaders, that would turn power over to their sons when they died?
What is Monarchs.
100
Name the two tall mountains that seperate Southern Asia from the rest of the continent?
What is the Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
100
What civilization developed and grew along the banks of the Yellow River?
What is Huang He.
200
What is it called when ideas and customs are shared and adopted between two different civilizations
What is Cultural Diffusion.
200
What civilization developed around the Nile River, over 5000 years ago?
What is Egypt(ian).
200
What is generally the name given to the civilizations that developed around the Tigris-Euphrates?
What is Mesopotamia
200
What is the name of the river that runs through the Indus Valley.
What is the Indus River.
200
In the Chinese view, people who lived outside of Chinese civilization were barbarians. Because the Chinese saw their country as the center of the civilized world, what did they name themselves?
What is the Middle Kingdom.
300
A religious building found in the middle of cities in Mesopotamia is called what?
What is a Ziggurat.
300
What pharaoh had the Great Pyramid of Giza built for himself?
What is Khufu.
300
What is the name of the material that is left behind after a flood?
What is silt.
300
What was the probable cause of the destruction of the Indus River Valley civilizations?
What is floods.
300
What is that practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events ?
What is a divination.
400
What two words describe how a society is divided into classes?
What is social order.
400
Pictures that stood for ideas and sounds are known as what?
What is Hieroglyphics.
400
What is a series of rulers from a single family called?
What is a dynasty.
400
What is a fort that is used to protect the city?
What is Citadel.
400
In Chinese society what is the most important virtue?
What is to respect ones parents/elders.
500
What are the seasonal winds in the Indus Valley called?
What is monsoon.
500
What pharaoh united the Upper and Lower Kingdoms?
What is Menes
500
What is the name given to the fertile land that stretches from the Tigris-Euphrates rivers to the Mediterranean Sea in modern day Israel called?
What is the Fertile Crescent.
500
Name one of the two large cities that were on the Indus River.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo Daro.
500
In this system, the rulers appoint nobles to control smaller parts of an empire. The nobles divided the land into farms for extended families known as peasants. What is this system called?