Indus Valley
What are monsoons how did they affect the Indus Valley?
Monsoons are seasonal winds and they messed up crops and soil which caused the land not to grow.
What Chinese teacher taught about respect and morality?
Confucius
What do you call an ancient Egyptian ruler?
A Pharaoh
What is a Ziggurat?
a temple or government building
What is reincarnation?
When a soul travels through different bodies till it finds liberation.
In the Indus Valley, the grid system allowed for what underground technology?
Public Drainage system
What is the nickname of the Huang He river?
China’s Sorrow
Who was the most famous Egyptian mummy to be discovered?
King Tutankhamen
What does Hammurabi’s code do?
It holds people responsible for their actions and uses the eye for eye punishment.
What is the Buddha’s real name?
Siddhartha Gautama
What was the Indus Valley’s form of writing?
we did not know how to read it.
Define loess.
Rich yellowish silt
What material did the ancient Egyptians write on?
Papyrus Reed
What are scribes and describe what they did.
Scribes were writers who wrote cuneiform on clay tablets.
What is the caste system?
A system of social separation and restrictions of classes.
What does the 4 Noble Truths say causes suffering?
Craving or Desire
What is the primary language of China?
Mandarin
What is the name of the Egyptian sun god?
RA
Define a secondary source and give an example.
Information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in an event. Ex: biography.
Siddhartha Gautama was born into the Brahmin caste. What was he?
born into royalty
Finish the blank; The Eightfold path is the way to the…?
cessation of suffering.
What was the Xia Dynasty?
First government in China
Define a theocracy.
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is a Ziggurat?
A temple or government building
Who are the 3 major gods of Buddhism?
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva