What is the geographic location of this civilization?
Southwest Asia
100
What is the geographic location of this civilization?
Northern Africa/ Egypt
100
What is the geographic location of this ancient civilization?
India/ South Asia
100
What is the location of this ancient civilization?
China/ East Asia
100
This groups was located between the Mediterranean Sea and on the Jordan river in Southwest Asia.
Who are the Hebrews (Jews)?
200
What two rivers are located here?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
200
Name the river in this civilization.
Nile River and the Nile Delta
200
What is the name of the river in this civilization?
Indus River
200
What is the chinese name of the river in this civilization?
Huang He River
200
What ancient civilization was located to the South of Egypt on the Upper Part of the Nile River in Africa?
What is the Nubia (also known as the Kush)?
300
Mesopotamia is located inside an area that is good for farming known as the __________ ______________.
Fertile Crescent
300
What type of religion did the Egyptians and MOST early civilizations practice?
Polytheism - Belief in many Gods
300
In addition to two mountain ranges, what other geographic feature provided protection from invasion?
The Indian Ocean
300
Name three reasons that people settled down by rivers?
Rich soil, water for irrigation, and protection from invasion by nomadic peoples.
300
Name the two cities in India on the Indus River that had urban planning - sewer sytems, mud brick buildings and city walls.
Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro
400
What was the first organized system of laws in the history of western civilizations that started here in Mesopotamia? (Hint: "An eye for an eye" "Steal and have your hand cut off".)
The Code of Hammurabi
400
What was the Egyptian hereditary ruler called?
A pharoah
400
What is the name of the two mountains ranges in India?
Hindu Kush in the West and Himalayas in the East
400
During what period, Paleolithic or Neolithic, did permanent river valley civilizations appear in river valleys and the Fertile Crescent?
Neolithic
400
What group settled on the Meditterranean coast and were sailors who traded purple dye and invented the alphabet?
The Phoenicians
500
Name the form of writing developed in the Sumerian city of Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform
500
What was the bottom class on the Egyptian society pyramid?
Slaves. Slavery was not based on race and was accepted in a rigid class sytem.
500
Name the two large rivers in India?
Indus River and Ganges Rivers
500
Another name for river valleys.... because they were the birthplace of cities.
What is "Cradles of Civilization"?
500
What was the first group to practice monotheism (belief in one God)??