Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia means " ____________".
What is land between two rivers?
_______ is located in North Africa along the Nile River.
What is Egypt?
Ancient Chinese priests used ________ to predict the future by interpreting messages from the spirits of ancestors.
What is oracle bones?
Bones where heated until cracked.
What is Shang?
________ is when members of a wealthy family ruled.
What is Aristocracy?
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia are the ____________ and _________ rivers.
What is Euphrates and Tigris
The Egyptian economic system was based on ___________.
What is agriculture?
One of ancient China's greatest inventions was the development of ______________. They mixed copper and tin to make a stronger alloy.
What is bronze?
Built the Great wall of China
What is the Qin dynasty?
The Minoans developed
What is a written language?
Mesopotamians were the first to develop a written language called _____________.
What is cuneiform?
Ancient Egyptians believed in ______________.
What is life after death?
One of the most powerful dynasties of ancient China.
What is Shang?
Mandate of Heaven
What is Zhou?
People living in river valleys depended on the rivers flooding for
What is fertile land?
What civilization was the first to build massive structures in the form of a terraced pyramid?
What is Mesopotamia?
The Egyptians called the soil deposited along the banks of the Nile the "___________"
What is Gift of the Nile?
The making of ________ was one of ancient China's biggest secrets. It would be punishable by death if you told anyone!
What is silk?
The first flourishing Chinese civilization is marked by the
What is founding of the Shang dynasty, which was quickly replaced by the Zhou dynasty.
Sparta and other city-states rebelled against Athens by
What is joining together and fighting?
Mesopotamians developed mathematics based on the number ____.
What is 60?
The ancient Indus River Valley civilization is sometimes known as the __________ civilization.
What is Harappan?
Another name for the Huang He river.
What is the Yellow River?
The following were early Chinese dynasties:
What is Sui, Tang, Song, Mongol, Ming?
What is the name for all battles and wars were halted so that everyone could come and watch the games
What is truce?