Cities
The Egyptian capital during the Old Kingdom, home to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
What is Memphis?
This river was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization, providing fertile soil for agriculture.
What is the Nile?
The Egyptian rulers were believed to be gods on Earth.
What are pharaohs?
Ancient Egyptians wrote on this plant-based paper-like material.
What is papyrus?
This Sumerian invention revolutionized transportation and is still used today.
What is the wheel?
This ancient civilization built cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, known for their advanced urban planning.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
The two rivers that framed the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This Sumerian stepped temple was the center of both government and religious life.
What is a ziggurat?
The Sumerians developed this earliest form of writing, using wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The Egyptians built these massive structures as tombs for their rulers.
What are the pyramids?
The oldest known Sumerian city
What is Ur?
The ancient Indus Valley Civilization developed along this river, which now flows mostly through Pakistan.
What is the Indus River?
This collection of laws, created by a Babylonian king, was one of the earliest written legal codes.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The discovery of this stone allowed scholars to finally decode Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The ancient Egyptians perfected this preservation process to prepare bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Located in present-day Iraq, this Sumerian city was ruled by the famous King Gilgamesh.
What is Uruk?
The Mesoamerican civilization of the Olmecs and later the Maya relied on this body of water that filled rivers around them.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Many early civilizations, including those in Mesopotamia and Egypt, practiced this type of religion, believing in multiple gods who controlled different aspects of life.
What is polytheism?
The ancient Chinese used this early writing system, often inscribed on bones and shells for divination.
What are oracle bone scripts?
These people of Mesoamerica are famous for carving massive stone sculptures, believed to represent rulers or deities.
Who are the Olmec?
This Mesoamerican city, known for its massive pyramids, was mysteriously abandoned before the Aztecs arrived.
What is Teotihuacan?
Also known as the Huang He, this "Mother River" of China is the cradle of its civilization and is the country's second-longest river.
What is the Yellow River?
This massive structure, built under the rule of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, was designed to protect China from northern invaders and reflected a complex government organization.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This simplified script, used by ancient Egyptians for everyday writing, developed from hieroglyphics and was commonly written on papyrus.
What is demotic script?
The Sumerians used this numerical system that is still evident today in how we keep time and measure circles.
What is the 60-base system?