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What is the purpose of a Pyramid in Ancient Egypt?
It is used as a tomb for the Pharaoh
What two rivers are located here?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Name the river in this civilization.
Nile River
What is the name of the river in this civilization?
Indus River
Mountains that isolated China from the rest of the civilizations.
What are the Himalayas?
What is a series of rulers all from the same family called?
What is a Dynasty
the first set of written laws
What is Code of Hammurabi?
What did the Egyptians call their kings?
What is Pharaohs
What is the location of this ancient civilization?
India/ Asia
early examples of Chinese writing were left by Shang Priests on these
(They communicated with the gods through these)
What are oracle bones?
What is the geographical feature that all Early civilizations began on?
What is a River Valley
a religious temple in ancient Sumer, built to please the gods
What is a ziggurat?
What type of religion does the Egyptians practice?
Polytheism
the Indus River is protected by which mountain range to the north
What is the Himalaya's
According to this, the gods would end their support for a weak or corrupt ruler. (How dynasties justify overthrowing another dynasty)
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Egyptian process of preserving a dead body
What is Mummification
the world's first civilization
What is Sumer?
What is the Egyptian writing system?
What is hieroglyphics?
The Indus River will flood and leave behind...
What is silt
civilizations in China began on the banks of this river
What is the Yellow River? (Huang He)
The SPREAD of goods, ideas, and people from one group to another group of people
What is Cultural Diffusion
a Sumerian writing system that others built upon (first writing system)
What is cuneiform?
Why is the Nile considered a gift?
What is without the Nile, Egypt would be nothing but desert
The ancient ruins of Harappa show their cities and roads were placed in what type of pattern
What is a grid pattern (for their streets)
Dusty, yellowish, windblown soil/silt
What is loess?