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Enter the Dragon
100
A time when tools were made from stone and wood.
What is the Stone Age?
100
This area was between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This is the river that flowed from the highlands of Africa, through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
This seasonal wind brings large amounts of rain to the Indian subcontinent.
What is a monsoon?
100
This type of soil gave the Yellow River its name.
What is loess?
200
These were people who hunted and gathered wild plants for food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
200
This allowed farmers to bring water to their crops using canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
200
This was the use of pictures as a form of writing used in ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
This is the Hindu belief that a soul survives death to be reborn into a new body.
What is reincarnation?
200
These were special priests who used animal bones to tell the future during the Shang Dynasty.
What are oracles?
300
This developed greatly during the New Stone Age.
What is agriculture?
300
This was the first empire to form in world history around the year 2300 B.C..
What is Sumer?
300
He was considered to be the most successful pharaoh ruling for 67 years. He built the gigantic rock temple, Abu Simbel.
Who is Ramses II?
300
This Hindu god was known as the creator of the heavens, sky and Earth.
Who is Brahma?
300
This emperor punished or killed all people who opposed him. The country's name comes from the name of this emperor.
Who is Qin Shihuangdi?
400
This is the trading of one good or service for another (No money was used)
What is bartering?
400
He was the king of Babylon and established a code of written laws in about 1780 B.C.
Who is King Hammurabi?
400
This god was believed to be the god of the sun.
Who is Ra?
400
This was the religion that was started by the prince, Siddhartha Gautama after becoming the "Enlightened One".
What is Buddhism?
400
This is a stone structure built to protect the northern regions of China from invaders.
What is The Great Wall of China?
500
This "extra" food allowed farmers to do things other than farming, specialize, and form towns.
What is surplus?
500
This was first practiced by the Israelites and is the belief in only one God.
What is monotheism?
500
This is the process of preserving a dead body to be welcomed into the afterlife.
What is mummification?
500
During this empire, people invented the zero and the decimal system. They also seemed to understand the idea of gravity.
What is the Gupta Empire?
500
During this Empire, the Grand School was formed teaching Confucianism. This empire also included North and South Korea.
What is the Han Empire?
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