Mesopotamia
Area of rich farmland in the Middle Easr where Mesopotamia began
What is the Fertile Crescent?
River that helped the Egyptian civilization flourish
What is the Nile River?
River that helped the developement of this civilization
What is the Indus River?
River that helped the development of the Ancient Chinese Civilization
What is the Yellow River?
Writing system developed by the Sumerians that used a stylus and a clay tablet
What is Cuneiform?
Name given to the King of Egypt
What is Pharaoh?
This aspect of the Indus civilization has never been deciphered. We can't understand it even today
What is their writting system?
Traditional Chinese name of the Yellow River
What is the Huang He river?
Rivers that helped Mesopotamia flourish
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
Writing system developed by the Ancient Egyptians
What are Hieroglyphics?
System that divided very rigidly the social classes in Ancient India
What is the Caste System?
Written system developed by the Ancient Chinese
What are pictographs and ideographs?
Pyramid-shaped building with different levels used as a temple in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is a Ziggurat?
Process in wich dead bodies are preserverd usually using a lot of bandages
What is mummification?
Social class that did the worst jobs in society and was considered to be outside of the caste system
Who are the untouchables?
Name given to animal bones carved with characters that were used to tell the future
What are oracle bones?
City-state of Ancient Mesopotamia
What is Ur, Uruk, Babylon, Akkad, Sumer, Eridu, Nineveh?
A very improtant female Pharaoh of Egypt
Who is Nefertiti, Cleopatra?
Belief that souls keep coming back in different bodies each life until the soul is ready to go to Nirvana
What is reincarnation?
System that explained the rise and fall of Chinese Dynasties and the Mandate of Heaven
What is the Dynastic Cycle?