City-states in Mesopotamia
An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea ...
Answer: Fertile Crescent.
Traditional first king of Egypt, founder of 1st dynasty ...
Answer: Menes.
An ancient urban culture that thrived in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, roughly between 3300 and 1300 B.C. ...
Answer: Harappan civilization.
In Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority ...
Answer: Mandate of Heaven.
King of Babylonia: famous code of laws made in his reign ...
Answer: Hammurabi.
A massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for Old Kingdom pharaohs ...
Answer: pyramid.
A wind that shifts in direction at certain times of each year ...
Answer: monsoon.
One of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese priests to communicate with the gods ...
Answer: oracle bone.
A belief in many gods ...
Answer: polytheism.
A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying ...
Answer: mummification.
A large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent ...
Answer: subcontinent.
A fertile deposit of windblown soil ...
Answer: loess.
A series of rulers from a single family ...
Answer: dynasty.
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds ...
Answer: hieroglyphics.
The process of guiding the use of land and the development of urban environments to ensure economic development, quality of life, and efficient infrastructure ...
Answer: urban planning.
A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land ...
Answer: feudalism.
A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler ...
Answer: empire.
A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material for writing on ...
Answer: papyrus.
Archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan: one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley civilization ...
Answer: Mohenjo-Daro.
The historical pattern of the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties ...
Answer: dynastic cycle.