Vocab
fertile soil created by flooding rivers
silt
The two main rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
The main river in Egypt
Nile
seasonal wind patterns in India
momsoons
The first dynasty in China- maybe
Xia
the belief in many gods
polytheism
A system of rules, laws, and punishments created by a Babylonian king
Hammurabi's Code
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What continent is India located on?
Asia
Philosophy that taught that people should return to ethics and honor the heads of the family
Confucianism
more than is needed
surplus
The story of the flood from Gilgamesh is similar to which bible story?
Noah's Ark
Important female pharaoh who made many improvements
Hatshepsut
The invaders from the north who started who we now know as Indian culture
Aryans
The philosophy that people are bad by nature and need to be punished
legalism
A ranking of people in a society
social hierarchy
An area of land controlled by one ruler or government
empire
Strong rapids in the Nile River
cataracts
the effect of your good and bad deeds
karma
animal bones used to make predictions
oracles
Moving water from where it is to where you need it
irrigation
created chariots
Hittites
Helped archaeologists read hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
The state of perfect peace
nirvana
series to trade routes between China and Eastern Europe
Silk Road
a writer
scribe
Mesopotamian writing that used symbols
triangle shaped temples
pyramids
became the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
The first dynasty in China we have evidence of
Shang
Everyone doing only job that they're best at
specialization/division of labor
The inventors of an alphabet similar to the one we use today
Pheonicians
united Upper and Lower Egypt
Menes
Ancient Indian religious texts
Vedas
machine used to measure the strength of earthquakes
seismograph