Miscellaneous
One of the best movies every made this is Mr. White's favorite movie.
What is Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Name the fertile piece of land that in Greek means "lies between the two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
When the Nile River would flood, it left behind this beneficial material for farming.
What is silt?
The Indus River valley civilization was naturally protected by this mountain Range to the North where the tallest mountain in the World exists.
What are the Himalayas?
You would find the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers in this present day country.
What is China?
This is widely known as the cause of the collapse of the Indus River Valley civilization.
What is the invasion by the Aryans?
Name the two rivers that flood in the Fertile Crescent,that left behind silt which helped the farmers grow abundant crops.
What is the Tigris & Euphrates?
The Nile would flood once a year in the month of July and was so ___________ Egyptians could work and live around this cycle.
What is predictable (flooding)?
The Indus River will flood ____________ just like the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia. Because of this they had to build dikes, channels and dams to control the flooding.
What is unpredictable?
The reason the Huang He River is also known as the Yellow River is because it leaves behind this yellowish silt.
What is loess?
This man was a vizier in Egypt, became an outcast, but eventually led his people to Canaan or the Promised Land.
Who was Moses?
This is the name of the first Sumerian writing system in Mesopotamia done with wedge shape pictographs on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Since the Nile River would flood once a year in July it allowed the Ancient Egyptians to create this...
What is a calendar?
These two cities are the oldest civilizations along the Indus River valley that left behind mostly artifacts but little else in recorded form. One of the cities mysteriously "shut down".
What are Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
To be a ruling family in China you must claim this. However if something bad happened to the people or the country, you could lose your seat of power.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
This religion states the following - Peace to all beings, fair & humane treatment, Noble 8 fold path, Nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
The first written laws for people in the Mesopotamia region were produced by this Babylonian King. The dodes were known as being very harsh but did establish law and order.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The writing system of the Ancient Egyptians is known as this. It was written on both Papyrus as well as stone and walls.
What is hieroglyphics?
The ancient ruins of Harappa show their cities and roads were placed in what type of pattern that is used in most modern day larger cities.
What is a grid pattern?
Built on an ancient religious foundation to establish the social values, institutions, and transcendent ideals of traditional Chinese society. More of a philosophy of ideas than a religion.
What is Confucianism?
This was the first monotheistic religion in the Western River Valley whose founding father was Abraham.
What is Judaism?
Because Mesopotamia had very few natural barriers this would happen to them often.
What is invaded?
These were built as tombs for Pharaohs and took thousands of men to build over many decades.
What are the Pyramids?
Name the seasonal wind pattern that dominates India's climate and provides both beneficial rainfall but also major flooding and harmful winds.
What is monsoon?
The Great Wall of China, started by the Qin Dynasty, protected the ____________ border from the Mongolians and Huns.
What is the Northern Border?