MESOPOTAMIA
These two rivers are where Mesopotamia was founded.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This river is where the Egyptians settled. It is as long as the US is wide.
What is the Nile?
These were large structures that were built as tombs for the Pharaohs.
What are Pyramids?
These were the two main rivers that the civilization in India were established on.
What are the Indus and Ganges?
This person started the first Indian Empire.
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
These were cities that functioned as independent countries.
What are City-States?
Egypt was surrounded by this physical feature that isolated and protected from invasion for a long period of time.
What is a desert?
This was the Egyptian form of writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
These are the world's tallest mountain range that separated India from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
Chandragupta's grandson who used war elephants in battle takes the Mauryan Empire to its greatest heights.
Who is Ashoka?
These were the large stepped structures built in the center of cities. They served both religious and military purposes.
What are Ziggurats.
The were the Egyptian God-Kings.
Who were the Pharaohs?
This allowed hieroglyphics to be translated.
What was the Rosetta Stone?
This could be defined as strict separation of social classes.
What is a caste system?
The reign of the first 3 Guptas of the Gupta Empire, became known as this of India?
What is the Golden Age?
This was the wedge-shaped writing system in Mesopotamia.
What was cuneiform?
Egypt's government was this type; based on religious authority.
What is a Theocracy?
The Egyptians were the first to use paper for writing, made from this material.
What is Papyrus?
These are two examples of Technology found in ancient Indus civilizations.
What are planned cities, plumbing, brick walls, or sewage and drain systems?
Indian Empires served as a middle man on this vast trade network stretching across Asia?
What is the Silk Road?
He was the most notable Babylonian King, known for his code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The process of preserving a body to prevent it from decaying
What is Mummification?
This was the fertile black mud left by the flooding of the Nile.
What was silt?
This is the written language of Ancient India.
What is Sanskrit?
Indian mathematicians are responsible for these two important concepts.
What are zero and Pi?