Prehistory
City-States in Mesopotamia
Ancient Egyptians
Indus Valley
Ancient Chinese
100
The earliest hominids emerged about how many years ago?
What is 3.6 million years ago
100
These are the rivers that flooded Mesopotamia at least once a year.
What are the Tigris & the Euphrates Rivers
100
What did the ancient Egyptians create that is just as accurate as today's?
What is the calendar
100
This is the name for the land mass that includes what is now India. Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh?
What is subcontinent
100
The ancient Chinese began using this instead of bronze.
What is iron
200
This word refers to any time in the past before the invention of writing.
What is "prehistoric"
200
Sumerians developed the first system of what?
What is writing
200
What two areas was Egypt divided into?
What is Upper and Lower Egypt
200
They created will built homes made of what?
What is oven-baked bricks
200
The ancient Chinese used oracle bones for this purpose
What is to make sacrifices to ancestral spirits and consult the gods
300
What age ended with the discovery of agriculture?
What is the Paleolithic Age
300
What established laws that were remarkable in their equal treatment of all people?
What is Hammurabi's Code
300
Who was Menes and why was he important?
What is he united Upper and Lower Egypt
300
This is the reason why the Indus River different from the rivers used by other early civilizations discussed.
What is it sometimes changed directions
300
This was the disadvantage of the ancient Chinese writing system
What is it required a person to know 1,000 characters to be considered barely literate.
400
This is a period covering approximately the same time as the Paleolithic Age.
What is the Ice Age
400
What conquered Sumer and became ruler of the world's first empire?
Who is Sargon of Akkad
400
What did the Egyptians believe happened to you when you died?
What is there is an afterlife
400
What is the one thing that the homes of Mohenjo-Daro have that was lacking in those of other ancient civilizations?
What is indoor plumbing
400
The ancient Chinese believed in divine approval for rule, known as the what?
What is the Mandate of Heaven
500
The archaeological discoveries at Catal Huyuk have added to our understanding of early what?
What is village life
500
What type of religion did the Sumerians have?
What is polytheism
500
This is the reason farming along the Nile River was easier than along many other major rivers?
What is because the time of the Nile's flooding was more predictable.
500
This is what happened to the Indus Valley
What is it came to a mysterious end, perhaps a result of natural disaster
500
The system arose in China
What is feudalism
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