A river in East Africa, the longest in the world, flowing North from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, for 3473 miles.
What is Nile River?
100
Oldest story ever written?
What is Gilgamesh?
100
A group of inscribed animal bones and shells discovered in China and used originally in divination by the ancient Chinese, esp. during the Shang dynasty.
What are oracle bones?
100
The ancient Harappan civilizations method of urban planning.
What is a grid pattern?
100
The arrangement of events in time.
What is chronology
200
To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decay.
What is embalming?
200
A circular device developed by the ancient Sumarians that is capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation.
What is the wheel?
200
A fine lustrous fiber especially strong and elastic, first developed by an ancient Chinese culture.
What is silk?
200
Gods associated with natural forces.
Who did the Harappan's worship?
200
A firsthand or eyewitness account of an event
What is a primary source?
300
A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built over or around a crypt or tomb.
What is a pyramid?
300
Cuneiform
What is the ancient Sumerian from of writing called?
300
Picks up yellow soil and deposits the soil to form rich agricultural lands.
What is the Huang He River?
300
Left no written records.
What is the Harappan system of writing?
300
An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.
What is an artifact?
400
Conquerors of Egypt during the middle Kingdom.
What is the Hyksos?
400
Structured settlements that the ancient Sumerian culture developed into.
What are city states?
400
A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source.
What is the mandate of heaven?
400
The river valley where the Harappan civilization emerged.
What is Indus River?
400
A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
500
Name of the Egyptian ruler that had statues and monuments built in his image.
What is Ramses II?
500
Tigris and Euphrates.
What are the two major rivers that make up the fertile crescent?
500
A form of script using many characters.
What is the ancient Chinese writing system?
500
Farmers, artisans, and merchants.
What are the three ways in which ancient Harappans made a living?