Mesopotamia
The modern day country located in the Mesopotamia region.
What is Iraq?
The river that flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The river on which India's first civilization was located around
What is the Indus River?
Loess soil blew into this river, coloring it, and giving it its name.
What is the Yellow River?
The huge body of water that lies south of Greece and Rome
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
"Meso" means "middle" and "potamia" means "waters. Mesopotamia lies in between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Rosetta Stone represents this important CHARACTERISTIC OF CIVILIZATION.
What is language/writing?
The reason why Siddhartha Gautama is important.
What is "he started the religion of Buddhism"?
Good rulers lower taxes, keep the peace, and rule fair and justly, and then eventually bad rulers take over, and raise taxes, start wars, and become corrupt. This happens over and over.
What is the "dynastic cycle"?
How the ancient Chinese civilization stands out over all others we learned about
What is "It was the longest lasting".
Hammurabi's Code was a set of them.
What are laws?
Out of these choices, which group of people did NOT live in Mesopotamia? Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, or Sumerians
Who are the Phoenicians?
The REGION where the Dalai Lama lived
What is Tibet?
These soldiers made of clay were created to "guard" Shi Huand Di's tomb.
Who are the TERRA COTTA WARRIORS?
This word literally means "high" "city"
acropolis
Cuneiform was used in Ancient Sumer. It represents this important "CHARACTERISTIC OF EVERY CIVILIZATION.
What is a system of writing?
The ancient civilization that invented the wheel and cuneiform
Who are the Sumerians?
Two people--who DID NOT live in ancient societies--who embodied the idea of the Hindu and Buddhist belief of NON VIOLENCE
Who are the Dalai Lama, MLK or Gandhi
The DRINK that a chemist made for Shi Huangdi who wanted an elixir made that would help him live forever.
What is kombucha?
Aristocrats ruled in this form of government.
What is oligarchy?
Mesopotamia is a city, a city-state, country, region or empire?
What is a region?
These ancient PEOPLE did not have much farmable land, BUT were able to thrive as they were known for being "Masters of Trade", for their "purple dye" made from sea shells, and for their cedar wood.
Who were the Phoenicians?
The FIRST of the Buddhism's FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
What is, "We all SUFFER"
An engineering marvel -- other than the Great Wall --that was invented or built by the Chinese. , very long waterway that connected an important river in northern China with one in
What is the Grand Canal, the wheel barrow, or irrigation systems?
Three legendary features of the Ancient Roman Civilization