Characteristics of Civilizations
Polytheistic
What is the worship of many gods?
The name of the river Ancient Egyptians settled on
What is the Nile?
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The man made protection system built in Northern China
What is the Great Wall?
Geographical feature sacred to Indian people
What are rivers?
The number of characteristics necessary to be considered a civilization
What is 7?
Title of Ancient Egyptian ruler
What is Pharoah?
The world's first civilization
What is Sumer/Sumerians?
The Silk Road
What is a network of trade routes that connected the East and West?
A large landmass that juts out from a continent
What is a subcontinent?
Stratification of society based on job, wealth, and influence
What are social classes?
The three time periods of Ancient Egypt
What is the Old, Middle, and New?
Writing system of Sumerians
What is Cuneiform?
Mandate of Heaven
What is the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time?
Possible twin capitals of the Indus Valley
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Cultural Diffusion
What is the spread of ideas, technology, beliefs, and/or customs from one culture to another?
The last Pharaoh of Egypt
Who is Cleopatra?
Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is "between two rivers"?
Three religions that developed in Ancient China
What are Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism?
The Vedas
What are a collection of hymns and prayers
Where civilizations began
What is along rivers?
Mummification
What is the process of preserving the body so the soul could stay in the afterlife?
Principle in Hammurabi's Code
What is "an eye for an eye"?
Succession of rulers from the same family
What is the Dynasty System?
Strict social grouping system one is born into and cannot change that developed in this region
What is the caste system?