History Terms
What does BC stand for?
Before Christ
What was the name of the soil that was brought by the flooding of the two rivers that made soil in this area rich for farm land?
silt
What is the most important River in Egypt?
Nile
What was the economy of Harappan civilization based on?
Farming
What did Shi Huangdi build to protect the entire country from invasion?
A Great Wall
AD 1821 is before or after 1860 BC?
After
What two rivers flow through the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What direction does the Nile River flow?
south to north
Despite archaeologists finding 1500 sites of the Indus Valley Civilization , they have found very little evidence of ______________, almost no _______________.
Warfare, weapons
How did Emperor Shi Huangdi create a common Chinese culture?
By introducing a common language
2025 is in what century?
21st Century
Why was the flooding of the rivers each year so important to life in the Fertile Crescent?
The floods left fertile silt for people to plant crops in
Who ruled over Egypt with total control?
Pharoahs
Everything we know about the Indus Valley Civilization comes from archaeology, because while they did use written language....?
We cannot read it
What happened to China once Shi Huangdi died and there was no Central Government?
The country fell into civil war
When were primary sources made?
During the time described
What was the name of the first written sets of laws from Mesopotamia?
The Code of Hammurabi
What are the two division of Egypt?
Upper and Lower
The seals from the Indus Valley let us know that they traded because we found them in __________________?
Mesopotamia
What was the new money system that the emperor Shi Huangdi set up?
Gold and copper coins
A podcast about Abraham lincoln is what kind of source?
Secondary Source
What were people able to focus on because of the surplus of food?
people were able to focus on other technological improvements.
An area of land made from soil deposits from the river.
Delta
What type of plant was the Indus valley known for growing?
Cotton
Who hated all of the new policies that Shi Huangdi put in place to unify China?
Peasants
Scholars
Nobles