The Indus River Valley civilization was centered around this river.
What is the Indus River?
100
This is the geographic term for a large landmass that juts out from a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
This 25' tall structure, running for thousands of miles along China's northern border, served as a symbolic division between Chinese civilization and the nomads.
What is the Great Wall of China?
100
This is a term for a family of rulers.
What is a dynasty?
100
These were the temples built in Mesopotamia.
What are ziggurats?
200
This polytheistic religion has many, many gods, including Ganesh (the elephant god), Hanuman (the monkey god), and Shiva (the destroyer).
What is Hinduism?
200
This geographic feature create India's northern border and served to both protect and isolate early Indian civilization.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
200
China's monopoly on this fabric funded a large portion of their economic growth.
What is silk?
200
This philosophy, which establishes social order by stressing relationships, was a major force throughout Chinese history.
What is Confucianism?
200
This is the sacred text of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
300
These seasonal winds dictate much of India's culture to this day.
What are monsoons?
300
This is the social structure from ancient India?
What is the caste system?
300
This term was used by the Chinese to explain the leader's divine right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
Han Fei Tsu founded this philosophy, which stressed strict obedience and harsh punishments.
What is legalism?
300
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently made headlines by requiring this of health workers returning after fighting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
What is a mandatory 21-day quarantine?
400
These animals have been sacred in India for millennia.
What are cows?
400
This is the Buddha's teaching which explains the things good Buddhists are supposed to do.
What is the Eightfold Path?
400
This system of government involves granting land to loyal lords in exchange for loyalty and military service.
What is feudalism?
400
Chinese civilization centered around these two rivers.
What are the Huang He (Yellow) and the Yangtze?
400
Name four characteristics of a civilization.
1. Organized Governments
2. Complex Religions
3. Job Specialization
4. Social Classes
5. Arts and Architecture
6. Public Works
7. Writing
500
These sacred texts are how historians learned much of what they know about the Aryan civilization.
What are the Vedas?
500
This Indus city featured advanced plumbing and a well-planned grid system of roads.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
500
Name three of the four Chinese ruling families we studied thus far.
What are the Shang, the Zhou, the Qin, and the Han?
500
The Chinese believed that they were at the center of the universe, leading them to refer to their civilization by this two-word name.