Early Peoples
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient India
Ancient China
100
An early ancestor of humans.
What is a hominid?
100
The lower or southern river in Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
100
A river in Egypt, one of the longest in the world.
What is the Nile River?
100
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
A river known in China as the "Yellow River"
What is the Huang He?
200
The first part of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
200
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
200
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
The Buddha's given name.
Who is Siddhartha Guatama?
200
Chinese philosopher who believed in having high morals and leading by setting good examples.
Who is Confucius?
300
These early people hunted animals and gathered wild plants.
Who are Hunter-Gatherers?
300
A government in which only ONE person has power.
What is a monarchy?
300
Egyptian Pharaoh who was famous for his large monuments.
Who is Ramses II (or Ramses the Great).
300
Hindu epic poem about Rama and his wife Sita.
What is the Ramayana?
300
A 4,000-mile long network of trade routes that began in China.
What is the Silk Road?
400
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
400
Created by the early Mesopotamian ruler of the same name, this was a set of 282 laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
A stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, which was used as a key to translating early Egyptian writings.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
A polytheistic religion that tries to reach Brahman through reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
400
A device that measures the strength of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
500
One who wanders with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
500
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is the division of labor?
500
A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top.
What is an obelisk?
500
The dividing of Indian society based on a person's birth, wealth or occupation.
What is the Caste System?
500
The spread of ideas from one culture to another.
What is diffusion?
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