Stone Age
What continent did humans originate on?
Africa
What temples were built for their Gods?
Ziggurats
What river went through the Indus River Valley
Indus River
What river runs through Egypt?
The Nile
What is the most popular crop in China?
Rice
What does Neolithic mean?
New Stone Age
What rivers flow through Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What was the large, important structure in Mehenjo-Daro?
The Great Bath
How was the next Pharaoh chosen?
A Dynastic Line
What was the earliest Chinese writing found on?
Oracle bones
What does Paleolithic mean?
Old Stone Age
Name ONE of the Mesopotamian "Empires"
Babylon, Assyria, Sumeria
What was their writing called?
We can't decipher it!
What was mummification?
Preserving corpses
What is Confucianism?
The philosophy that focuses on family values
Why were people buried with Grave Goods?
So that they could have their wealth and possessions in the afterlife.
What was the writing in Mesopotamia called?
Cuneiform
How large were their urban centers?
The largest of the ancient civilizations
What was Papyrus?
Paper
What was Terrace Farming?
Cutting steps into the mountain to farm on
What made it possible to settle near river valleys?
The development of Agriculture
What was the law code in ancient Babylon called?
Hammurabi's code
What geographic feature kept the Harappan's roughly locked into India?
The Himalayan Mountains
What was Egyptian writing called?
Hieroglyphs
What were the rivers that flowed through Ancient China called?
Huang He and Yangtze