Early Man
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Indus River Valley
Ancient China
Geography
100
Paleolithic Era humans depended on this to get food
What is hunting and gathering?
100
Name the two rivers along which Mesopotamia developed
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
100
This individual was the head of Egyptian religion and government.
What is a pharaoh?
100
One of the two major cities in the Indus River Valley.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
100
Porcelain, gunpowder, umbrella.
What were Ancient Chinese inventions?
100
The world's earliest civilizations developed on the CONTINENTS.
What are Africa and Asia?
200
Another name for the Neolithic Era
What is the New Stone Age?
200
This is an example of the temples used for worship in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Annual flooding of this river allowed Egyptians to invent a calendar.
What is the Nile River?
200
These weather events that caused regular flooding were caused by the mountains and water that surrounds the Indian subcontinent.
What are monsoons?
200
This system was used to ensure that the brightest citizens were hired for government jobs.
What is the civil service system?
200
Early civilizations developed along this geographic feature
What are rivers?
300
This event was a turning point in history and caused humans to stop hunting/gathering and establish permanent settlements
What is the domestication of plants and animals?
300
Type of writing invented in Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
300
Type of writing invented by the Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
300
Stamps found in the Indus River Valley by archaeologists are evidence that they traded with this civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
These two geographic features caused Ancient China to develop in isolation and have little contact with outsiders.
What are mountains (Himalayas) and deserts (Gobi)?
300
Name the Four River Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus, China
400
This social class existed in all early societies but was NOT based on race until the 1500s.
What is slavery?
400
True or false: All social classes in Mesopotamia were treated the same under Hammurabi's Code.
What is false? (Land owners and free non-land owners could execute equal justice, the slave class could not)
400
Egyptian expertise in mathematics and engineering helped them to create these tombs used to bury pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
400
This advancement in city planning invented in Indus River Valley is still used today in cities like Charlotte and NYC.
What are streets laid out in a grid pattern?
400
An important concept in Confucian thought is respect for elders, otherwise known as this
What is filial piety?
400
Early river valley civilizations depended on annual flooding to create this - needed to grow crops
Fertile soil
500
Religions, Job Specialization, Cities, Government, Written Language, Technology, Social Classes
What are the characteristics of civilizations?
500
A modern-day example of Hammurabi's "eye for an eye" is this punishment - still practiced today in some US states.
What is the death penalty?
500
This type of government, where the head is both a political and religious leader, was practiced in Ancient Egypt. It is practiced today in Saudi Arabia, for example.
What is a theocracy?
500
The social class system is referred to as this:
What is the caste system?
500
Ancient Chinese dynasties claimed their right to rule came from this
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
500
Name the two rivers along which Ancient China developed
Huang He (Yellow) and Yangtze rivers