Mesopotamia
China
Egypt & Meroe
Early Humans
Indus
100
City and the land surrounding it
What is a city-state?
100
Fertile soil blown around by desert wind
What is loess?
100
Delta
What is the triangular-shaped area of the Nile where the river branches out into the Mediterranean Sea?
100
Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on animals and plants?
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
Seasonal Winds
What are monsoons
200
Belief in more than one God
What is Polytheism?
200
Series of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
200
Ruling Style of Hatshepsut
What is promoting trade over war?
200
Domestication
What is the taming of animals for human purposes?
200
Harappan Planning
What is the grid system in Harappa, the ancient Indus city?
300
Reason Hammurabi created a single group of laws
What is "to unify diverse groups of people"
300
Oracle Bones
What were animal bones and shells used for writing questions for the gods?
300
Kush
What is the ancient Nubian empire in modern day Sudan?
300
5 characteristics of a civilization
What are Advanced Cities, Complex Institutions, Specialized Workers, Record Keeping, Advanced Technology
300
Name of the city where most homes had plumbing
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
400
What is brought together under an empire?
What is a.Several peoples, nations or previously independent states
400
Mandate of Heaven
What is the justification that Chinese rulers had permission from God to rule (divine approval)
400
Resource that allowed Meroe to be a center for manufacturing
What is Iron?
400
Neolithic Revolution
What is the change from a food-gathering to a food-producing culture?
400
Name of the quality/condition that Indus people valued, as evidenced through their use of plumbing
What is cleanliness, purity
500
Types of information written in Cuneiform on tablets
What are scientific investigations and maps?
500
The thing that is justified after the Mandate of Heaven is said to be lost (dynastic cycle)
What is rebellion?
500
Effect of Meroe's closeness (proximity) to the Red Sea
What is Meroe was able to become a flourishing center for trade?
500
Significance of the fact that Cave Paintings were found on several continents
What is the fact that the art style was a unique expression of early humans and that early humans felt the desire to express themselves through art
500
Centuries when other civilizations developed the level of plumbing that was around in the Indus River Valley
What are the 19th and 20th centuries?
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