Mesopotamia
Who were the first people to settle in Mesopotamia city-states?
Sumerians
What does kemet mean?
Black land(Fertile soil)
What were the three main rivers.
The Indus, Ganges, and the Brahmaputra River
what were the 3 major rivers in early china.
Huang He (Yellow River, “China’s Sorrow”) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
Who was Philip the second’s son?
Alexander
What were the large temples with steps heading to the top?
Ziggurats
What book had spells and prayers to prepare for the afterlife?
The Book of the Dead
Aryan tribes were led by who?
A Raja
What was the road that connected china and europe.
Silk Road
What was a story written in the form of a play?
Drama
What was the oldest epic ever known?
Epic of Gilgamesh
Who is in a class by himself?
The Pharaoh
Who was the lowest area in society?
The Untouchables
who was in the middle class of china.
Artisans and Merchants
Who’s as the wife of the king of the gods?
Hera
A large majority of the Mesopotamians specialized in what job?
Farming
Who invented an alphabet?
The Phoenicians
WHo created the symbol for zero and other numerals?
what did the Zhou emperors believed that what gave them power.
Mandate of Heaven
Where was Alexander’s army going when they turned back?
India
Who made the first empire?
Sargon
Who tried tried to change the government to monotheism.
Amenhotep IV
Who founded Jainism?
Mahavira
What was the writing that early china used with pictures.
Pictograph/Ideograph
What are four lands Alexander ruled?
Egypt, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Greece