Nile River Valley
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
Yellow River Valley
Ancient Greece
100
Because its elevation is higher, the river area in the south is called _____ Egypt. The river area in the north is called _____ Egypt.
What is Upper; Lower
100
Mesopotamia literally means "land between two rivers." These are the TWO rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates
100
The Indus River Valley was located in present-day _________ and northern _______.
What is Pakistan and northern India
100
The ancient North China Plain was bordered by the Yellow (Huang He) River to the north and the _________ River to the south.
What is Yangtze
100
This term is an Ancient Greek word for a "city-state."
What is a polis.
200
To the north, near the sea, Lower Egypt includes the this region of the Nile. It is a broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river.
What is the Nile DELTA region
200
While we use the Alphabet, and Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphics, the Sumerians had a form of writing called _________.
What is cuneiform
200
Like many peoples in the Fertile Crescent, the Sumerians believed that many different gods controlled the various forces in nature. The belief in more than one god is called __________.
What is polytheism
200
The _________ dynasty is considered the first of ancient China and had a leader named Yu the Engineer.
What is Xia
200
The Parthenon was a temple built to honor this goddess, who was the patron deity of the polis in which it is located.
Who is Athena
300
This region’s curved shape and the richness of its land led scholars to call it the _______ ________. It includes the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea (Egypt) and a plain that became known as Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent
300
In the Indus River Valley, the mountains guarded an enormous flat and fertile plain formed by two rivers—the Indus and the ________.
What is Ganges
300
The ___________ dynasty was the first in ancient China to leave a written record.
What is Shang
300
This is the literal meaning of the word "philosopher" in Greek.
What is "lover of wisdom"
400
This Ancient Egyptian leader was responsible for the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer
400
In Mesopotamia, military leaders started to become full-time rulers. These rulers usually passed their power on to their sons, who eventually passed it on to their own heirs. Such a series of rulers from a single family is called a __________.
What is dynasty
400
A wall of the highest mountains in the world, including the __________ where Mount Everest is located, separates the Indus Valley region from the rest of the Asian continent.
What are the Himalayas (Himalayan mountain range)
400
Around 1027 B.C., a people called the Zhou overthrew the Shang and established their own dynasty. To justify their conquest, the Zhou leaders declared that the final Shang king had been such a poor ruler that the gods had taken away the Shang’s rule and given it to the Zhou. This justification developed over time into a broader view that royal authority came from heaven. A just ruler had divine approval, known as the ______________.
What is Mandate of Heaven
400
This philosopher learned from Plato and became a private tutor for a young Alexander the Great.
Who is Artistotle
500
The Egyptian god-kings, called pharaohs, were thought to be almost as splendid and powerful as the gods of the heavens. This type of government in which rule is based on religious authority is called a _________.
What is theocracy
500
Like many peoples in the Fertile Crescent, the Sumerians believed that many different gods controlled the various forces in nature. The belief in more than one god is called __________.
What is polytheism
500
Seasonal winds called __________ dominate India’s climate. These winds blow eastward from the southwest, carrying moisture from the ocean in great rain clouds. The powerful storms bring so much moisture that flooding often happens.
What are monsoons
500
Shang kings consulted the gods through the use of __________, animal bones and tortoise shells on which priests had scratched questions for the gods.
What are oracle bones
500
These are the THREE seas that surround Greece.
What are the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean
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