Mesopotamia
This is a method for trading goods and services without money.
What is bartering?
The division of society into groups in the Indus River Valley.
What is the caste system?
This is a man-made barrier across northern China.
What is the Great Wall?
This allowed historians to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "The land between two rivers?"
Egypt was a polytheistic society--that is, they worshiped multiple gods. What is another term for gods or goddesses?
What are deities?
This is the largest religion in India today.
What is Hinduism?
A series of rulers from one family.
What is a dynasty?
This Mesopotamian ruler created the first written set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The sacred literature of Hinduism, which left a picture of Aryan life.
What is the Vedas?
A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted use of lands that legally belong to the king.
What is feudalism?
This is the area where a river empties into a larger body of water, creating a triangle-shape?
What is a delta?
This is the mountain range in northern India, which separates it from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This is a network of trade routes that connected Europe to Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The good or bad deeds which follow from one reincarnation to another.
What is karma?
These are seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.
What is a monsoon?
One of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese to communicate with the gods.
What is an oracle bone?
The major change in human life caused by the beginning of farming--that is, by people's shift from food gathering to food producing.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
(Or Neolithic Revolution)