Ancient Mesopotamia
These two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
These structures were built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
This material was made from bug cocoons and became an important Chinese export.
What is silk?
These were the two major cities of the Indus River Valley civilization.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
These are objects made or used by humans in the past.
What are artifacts?
This is what Mesopotamia means in Greek.
This was the Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphs?
This Huang He River is also known as
What is the Yellow River?
This mountain range helped protect India from invasions and separated it from much of the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
These are two examples of evidence used to study prehistory.
What are artifacts and fossils?
This was the first major civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism?
These objects contain some of the oldest examples of Chinese writing.
What are Oracle Bones?
These are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
What are the Vedas?
This type of source uses firsthand accounts but is not itself a firsthand account.
What are primary sources?
This was the world's first writing system.
These are large waterfalls or rapids along the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
This was the belief that a ruler received divine approval to govern.
What are the Mandates of Heaven?
The social hierarchy system in the Indus valley?
What is the Caste system?
A photograph taken during a historical event is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This Babylonian king created an early written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This government official supervised the day-to-day operations of Egypt.
What are viziers?
The important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
What is Filial Piety?
These people migrated into India around 1750 BCE and helped begin the Vedic Age.
Who are the Aryans?
The main difference between prehistory and history.
What is prehistory is before written records; history includes written records.