Indus Valley
The small Happaran city with gates between areas of different statuses.
What is Dholavira?
The name of the Chinese dynasty that emerged earliest.
What is the Xia Dynasty?
The overland trade route that linked Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
What is the Silk Route?
The major Mayan city with an elaborate ball court at its center.
What is Copán?
The double pyramid structure at the center of Aztec civilization.
What is Templo Mayor?
The two largest urban centers of the Harappan period.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
The capital of the late Shang Dynasty.
What is Anyang?
The nomadic, pastoral empire that threatened the Qin Dynasty.
What is the Xiongnu Empire?
Mayan myth describing the heroic adventures of two twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
What is Popol Vuh?
The ancestral empire of Aztec kings.
What is the Toltec Empire?
The name of the large, rectangular basin structure found in the center of Mohenjo-Daro.
What is the Great Bath?
This was used by Shang kings to predict future events (war, weather, etc.).
What are oracle bones?
The capital of the Khmer Empire in Mekong, Cambodia
What is Angkor?
The category of writing system that Mayan hieroglyphics developed into?
What is syllabic?
The document detailing Aztec life derived from the Spanish after their conquest.
What is the Florentine Codex?
The two writing systems theorized to be in Harappan script.
What are pictographic and ideographic?
The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
What is Qin Shi Huang?
The period of initial state formation in Japan.
What is the Kofun period?
The location of the site where the burned remains of a Mayan scribe's house were found.
What is Aguateca?
The name for the raised agricultural beds in Aztec swamps
What is Chinampas?
The non-durable material thought to be used in Harappan elite burials?
What is silk/textiles?
The dynasty in which iron weaponry and horseback warfare developed.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
The name of the largest artificial basin found in Angkor.
What is the Western Baray?
The farming practice involving the burning of forests to create a nutrient rich soil.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
The cities that formed the Triple Alliance to constitute the base of the Aztec Empire.
What are Tlapocán, Texcoco, and Tenochtitlán?