Geography
Rivers provided this for farming and daily life.
What is water and fertile soil?
These two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This river was the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This is the Hindu goal of life.
What is Moksha?
These mountains helped protect India from invasions.
What are the Himalayas?
These physical features often acted as natural barriers to invasion.
What are mountains, deserts, and seas?
Because flooding was unpredictable, this was needed.
What is cooperation and strong leadership?
This kept Egypt stable by providing predictable flooding.
What is food surplus?
This Hindu belief says the soul is reborn after death.
What is reincarnation?
These two rivers supported farming and trade in India.
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
This natural event could be helpful for farming but also destructive.
What is flooding?
These were independent cities that often fought each other.
What are city-states?
This is what pharaohs were responsible for maintaining.
What is ma’at (order and balance)?
This Buddhist teacher founded Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)?
This weather pattern brought rain but could also cause flooding.
What are monsoons?
This is one major reason early civilizations settled near rivers.
What is access to water, fertile land, and transportation?
This ruler created the first empire in Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
This process preserved bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
These teach that desire causes suffering.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
This civilization built well-planned cities with drainage systems.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This describes how geography could make civilizations both stable and vulnerable.
What is protection from enemies but risk from floods or isolation?
This was a set of written laws that depended on social class.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Match the kingdom to its description:
“Strong military and empire expansion.”
What is the New Kingdom?
This is a major difference between Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is that Buddhism rejects the caste system while Hinduism supports it?
This is why the Indus Valley Civilization declined.
What are environmental changes such as floods and climate shifts?