River Valley Civilizations
Religion
Cultures
Technology
Writing and Language
100
This civilization developed around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The term for a successor to a leader such as Muhammed.
What is a caliph?
100
The people of the early Stone Age wore these for clothing.
What are animal skins and hides?
100
Two inventions created by the Sumerians.
What are the wheel and plow?
100
This type of writing was used in India.
What is Sanskrit?
200
It was also known as the Yellow River or the River of Sorrows.
What is the Huang He River?
200
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are alike in this way.
What is monotheistic?
200
It was built for the great goddess Athena.
What was the Parthenon?
200
One development that allowed early people to become village dwellers.
What is the domestication of animals?
200
This term refers to the time before written language.
What is pre-history?
300
This civilization was associated with mummification.
What was Egypt?
300
He is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
300
This was how the Pharoahs determined if they could continue to rule.
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
300
They are the three types of Greek columns.
What are Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic?
300
This system of writing is most likely the most difficult for people to learn because it has so many symbols.
What is Chinese?
400
This civilization used cuneiform writing.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
This religion studies the Koran (or Quran) as its Holy book.
What is Islam?
400
The beliefs of this religion are reincarnation and the laws of karma.
What is Hinduism?
400
Two of the civilizations that used slash-and-burn to clear heavy forests to grow crops.
Who are the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas? (Name two of three.)
400
Guttenberg was responsible for the printing of this book.
What is the Bible?
500
This was the basis for the government in Mesopotamia.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
This religion's holy land is the Ganges River.
What is Hinduism?
500
These people are part African and part Arabian; most became Muslim but followed African religions.
What are the Swahilli?
500
This civilization improved the astrolabe and made contributions to medicine.
Who are the Muslims?
500
The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is lambda?
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