Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Indus River Valley
Ancient China
Vocab Words
100

The rivers in Ancient Mesopotamia

What is the Tigris and Euphrates?

100

The river in Ancient Egypt 

What is the Nile river?

100

The river in the Indus River Valley Civilization

What is the Indus River?

100

The rivers in Ancient China

What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Yangtze (Chang Jiang)?

100

The spread of ideas and goods from one place to another

What is cultural diffusion?

200
The writing system in Ancient Mesopotamia

What is Cuneiform?

200

The writing system in Ancient Egypt

What is Hieroglyphics?

200

The writing system in the Indus River Valley

What is Indus Script?

200

The writing system in Ancient China

What are Pictographs?

200

The belief of more than one God

What is Polytheism?

300

An achievement made by the Ancient Mesopotamians

What is the wheel, sail, plow or writing system?

300

An achievement made by the Ancient Egyptians

What are the pyramids, a reliable calendar, or papyrus?
300

An achievement made by the people in the Ancient Indus Valley

What is uniform bricks and buildings, the grid structure, or drainage and sewers?

300

An achievement made by the Ancient Chinese

What is coined money, or Oracle Bones?

300

Incredibly rich, fertile, yellow soil

What is loess?

400

The political structure in Ancient Mesopotamia

What is city-states?

400

The political structure in Ancient Egypt

What is a dynasty?

400

The political structure in the Indus River Valley

What is city-states?

400

The political structure in Ancient China

What is feudalism?

400

The belief that one’s culture is superior to all others

What is enthocentrism?

500

The piece of literature from Ancient Mesopotamia

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh or Hammurabi’s Code?

500

The piece of literature from Ancient Egypt

What is the Book of the Dead?

500

The piece of literature from the Indus River Valley

What is the Rig Veda?

500

The piece of literature from Ancient China

What is Oracle Bones?

500

The increase of jobs and division of labor

What is job specialization?