Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient China
Ancient Religion
Greece
100
The fertile land in between the valleys of Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Physically joined Upper and Lower Egypt. Appears in Egypt's nickname & longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
100
The first believed dynasty of China
What is the Xia Dynasty
100
Hinduism's state of a perfect understanding, where a person can achieve liberation from suffering/desire
What is moksha?
100
_____________ covered about 3/4ths of Greece
What are rugged mountains?
200
Mesopotamia means "land of two rivers." Those two rivers are _______________.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Three uses of the Nile River:
1. Overflowed yearly for crops, 2.Used for transportation/trade, 3.Natural barrier (pro/con)
200
The two major rivers in Ancient China.
What are the Yangtze and Huang He?
200
Soul/spirit being born again until moksha is reached.
What is reincarnation?
200
**DOUBLE** Compare/Contrast Athens & Sparta
What is a lot of things... see chart.
300
What were three ways the Sumerians created solutions to their location problems?
1.Dug irrigation ditches 2.Built cities with brick walls for defense 3.Traded with other civilization as well as learned crafts.
300
The type of government where god-kings, such as pharaohs rule.
What is a theocracy?
300
Dynasty sharply divided between nobles and peasants.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
300
Through seeking enlightenment Buddha came up with the _________________.
What are the Four Noble Truths (double if you can name the 4)
300
_______ were created about their gods/goddesses to explain many natural occurrences. What were some of the gods/goddesses?
What are myths? Hades, Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Demeter, Poseidon etc.
400
Sumerians had different city-states. How were they ruled?
First by priests, then by a military leaders (monarchs) in a dynasty.
400
How many gods/goddesses (about) did Ancient Egyptians worship, what were two of them?
About 2,000 gods/goddesses. Ra=sun god, Horus=god of light, Isis=represented the ideal mother and wife.
400
The pattern of the rise, decline and replacement of a dynasty.
What is the Dynastic Cycle? Extra points for explaining the Mandate of Heaven.
400
The belief in one god//the belief in many gods
What is monotheism//polytheism?
400
Art forms found in Ancient Greece
What are sculptures, theater, classical art, music, etc
500
The process of a new idea spreading from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
**DOUBLE** draw a pyramid of the social classes of Ancient Egypt.
What is (See photo)
500
What Dynasty used the Mandate of Heaven as a reason to justify overthrowing the Shang Dynasty?
Who is the Zhou Dynasty?
500
The New Covenant made with Moses.
What are the Ten Commandments?
500
Main message of the following philosophers: Socrates, Aristotle, Plato
What is anything?
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