Egypt
The river that helped create Egypt
What is the Nile River?
The first people to settle in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
Seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.
What are monsoons?
The wall built to protect their states and empires.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Practiced by Egyptians to prevent a body from decaying.
What is Mummification?
The resting place after death for the Kings of the Old Kingdom.
What is a pyramid?
"Cradle of Civilization" The region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter- moon shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The river that the Indus Civilization emerged from.
What is the Indus River?
The earliest evidence of Chinese writing.
What are oracle bones?
A flexible writing system created by Egyptian Scribes. In Greek it means "Sacred Carving"
What is Hieroglyphics?
A strong-willed king of Upper-Egypt who united all of Egypt.
Who is Menes?
Their belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
Mountains, and deserts
What were the Indus valleys natural barriers?
What is Loess?
The process of a new idea or a product spreading from one culture to another.
What is Cultural diffusion?
The type of government in which the ruler is a divine figure.
What is Theocracy?
A solution to carry water to the fields so they could produce a surplus of crops.
What are Irrigation Ditches?
The Indus River changed course.
What could be a reason that the Indus valley cities declined.
A political system in which nobles or lords are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king.
What is Feudalism?
A region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River.
The Egyptian god-kings.
What are Pharaohs?
Kings and Priests
Who makes up the highest level in Sumerian Society?
Indus seals where found in Sumer.
Why did they think they conducted long-distant trade?
Things that China manufactured.
What are Weapons, jewelry, and religious items?
A broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river.
What is the Delta?