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Anything that has mass and takes up space.
This was a Mesopotamian worship temple.
What is a ziggurat?
This body of water is most associated with Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Egyptian for "great house" these rulers sat atop the political structure of Ancient Egypt.
What are pharaohs?
A method of systematically applying scientific principles to solve a problem.
What is the scientific method?
The largest building of ancient India.
What is the Great Bath?
This approach to governing made famous by Shi Huangdi said that laws should be strict and punishments severe.
What is legalism?
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
This is the most important line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
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Using meters as a base unit, tell what each word stands for in the mnemonic device King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk.
What is kilometer, hectometer, dekameter, meter, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter?
This is a thick, rocky layer around the Earth's core.
What is the mantle?
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Name the eight levels of animal classification in order.
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
The smallest part of a molecular compound.
What is a molecule?
This Daoist symbol embodies the concept of balance between good and evil, right and wrong, and chaos and order.
What is the Yin and Yang?
An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.
What is a theory?
This King of Uruk sought immortality but did not find it.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is the study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth.
What is geography?
This law states that an object at rest continues to remain at rest.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
He used nonviolence to fight for India's independence from Great Britain.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
The diffusion of water.
What is osmosis?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
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This goddess killed Enkidu.
Who is Ishtar?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
This was the tallest building on Earth for over 3000 years.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This is a force that acts on another force to slow it down or stop it.
What is friction?
A religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
Movement of substances through the cell membrane without energy.
What is passive transport?
Animal bones and turtle shells that were used to read the will of the gods.
What are oracle bones?
These are the two rivers most associated with Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This King of Babylon wrote a system of laws that bears his name.
Who is Hammurabi?
This is nutrient-rich soil left behind by floodwaters.
What is silt?
The ability of a living thing to maintain relatively stable conditions within itself.
What is homeostasis?
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Name the two most famous cities of Ancient India.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
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As with many ancient societies, one of the main roles of the emperor was to please the gods, known in China as this.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
With over 2 billion adherents, this is largest religion of the modern world.
What is Christianity?