Paleolithic/Neolithic Era/Bronze Age
What is the name of a group of people who regularly move from place to place to survive?
Nomad
What is the name of the building that Sumerians created to worship their Gods?
Ziggurat
What is the name of the river that flowed through Egypt?
The Nile River
What is the name of one of the two rivers that flowed through the Shang dynasty?
Huang He (Yellow river) or the Chang Jiang (Yangtze river)
What early Mesoamerican civilization heavily influenced the Maya and Aztec?
The Olmecs
What is the vocabulary word that means to tame animals so they can live among humans?
Domesticate
Drought
What is the body of water North of Egypt?
Mediterranean Sea
What is the name of the major trade routes that were created in Ancient China?
Silk Road
What is believed to be the first place that prehistoric hunters settled in in the Americas?
Alaska
What was the long period of extreme cold called that affected all of Earth?
The Ice Age
What are the names of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia?
Euphrates and Tigris rivers
What is the name of the plant Egyptians used to make paper?
Papyrus
What philosophy encourages followers to concentrate on duty and humanity?
Confucianism
What gave the Mayan civilization a year-round source of water?
cenotes (sinkholes)
In the Paleolithic Era, humans made tools from a hard stone called ________.
Flint
What is the name of one of the two mountain ranges in Mesopotamia?
Taurus and Zagros mountains
Who was the King that united upper and lower Egypt?
King Narmer (also known as King Menes)
What was the name of the philosophy that encouraged people to not care about money or material things but instead spend time in nature?
Daoism
What civilization was Montezuma a ruler of?
The Aztecs
In what time period (Paleolithic, Neolithic, or Bronze Age) did the agricultural revolution take place?
Neolithic
What is the name historians use for the area of Mesopotamia? *Hint, it has to do with the soil in the area
Fertile Crescent
What did King Tut's father (Akhenaton) try to change about Egypt when he was in power?
Egypt's religion?
What philosophy had harsh punishments and strict rules?
Legalism
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