The Big Transformation
This was the name of the era when people lived for thousands of years as hunters and gatherers.
What is the Paleolithic Era
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
In ancient Egypt, pharaohs were considered to be this.
What are gods?
These ancient texts tell us much about the early Indus River Valley civilization.
What are the Vedas?
This civilization had the most rigid class structure.
What was the Indus River Valley?
This is the term used to describe the deliberate planting and cultivating of crops.
What is systematic agriculture?
These temples were built in ancient Mesopotamia city states.
What were ziggurats?
This geographical feature brought stability and prosperity to ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This nomadic tribe from Central Asia migrated into the Indus River Valley and brought elements of their religion, language, and social structure with them.
Who were the Aryans?
This civilization came up with a way to make paper.
What was the early Chinese River Valley civilization?
What is 10-12 thousand years ago?
This was the early form of writing in ancient Mesopotamia.
What was cunieform?
This unlocked the code to deciphering hieroglyphics.
What was the Rosetta Stone?
This was the belief in China that god favored a certain dynasty when there was peace and prosperity, but when things started to go wrong, god was giving the people a sign that it was time for a new dynasty.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This civilization was invaded and ruled by tribes such as the Hittites and Assyrians, much because of their lack of natural borders.
What was Mesopotamia?
The earliest agricultural villages were near these.
What are rivers?
This Babylonian king was the first to record the laws ancient Mesopotamia.
Who was Hammurabi?
She was a very powerful female pharaoh who expanded her empire with trade.
Who was Hatshepsut?
This was the site of a great early Indus River Valley civilization. It's well-organized layout told archaeologists that there must have been a very well-organized government.
What was Mohenjo-Daro?
The people of this civilization believed in angry and vengeful gods.
What was Mesopotamia?
This is the evidence that tells archaeologists that people during Paleolithic times had spiritual beliefs and believed in an afterlife.
What is the way they buried they dead?
This ancient text is considered the first work of literature and tells us much about Mesopotamian beliefs and ways of life.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This is the best way to describe how Egypt was governed.
What is a bureaucracy?
The pictographic writing on these helped archaeologists know much about early Chinese civilizations.
What are oracle bones?
This civilization is given credit for developing the 365 day calendar.
What is Egypt?