Ancient Mesopotamia
What two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
What was the gift of the Nile?
What is Fertile Black Mud
What is silt called in China?
What is loess?
Monsoons bring these two seasons
What are wet and dry?
These are the two major landforms of Greece
In Greek, what does Mesopotamia mean?
What is land between the rivers
What are cataracts?
What are waterfalls or rapids
What is the big mountain chain to the southwest of China?
What is the Himalaya Mountians
This is the Hindu god of creation.
Who/what is Brahman
What emperor defeated the Persian Empire?
Who is Alexander the Great
What is silt?
What is the fine soil carried by rivers
Egyptian kings or queens are called this
What is a pharaoh
What is the real name of the yellow river?
What is the Huang He
What are the 3 major rivers in India?
What is the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and the Indus River Valley
Which philosopher was the tutor for the teenager Alexander the Great
Who is Aristotle
Who was the first empire builder in Sumer?
Who is Sargon of Akkad
What were pyramids made for?
What is tombs for Pharoahs
This person taught ways to respect the different people and relationships in your life
Who was Confucius
These were two major cities from the ancient Indus River valley.
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
Greece, a peninsula, juts out into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea (Aegean & Ionian too!)
What is the principle that Hammurabi's Code enforced?
What is an eye for an eye
What was the Egyptian writing called?
What is Hieroglyphics
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
What is the way of selecting a ruler of China
Floods from the Indus River were this
Unpredictable! (and deadly)
What Greek city-state was the birthplace of democracy?
What is Athens