Mesopotamia
The other name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The style of writing found on ancient Egyptian artifacts.
What is hieroglyphs or hieroglyphics?
The mountain range that lies on the northern border of India.
What is the Himalayas?
A freeman with voting rights within the city-state they live.
What is a citizen?
The location of the island city, Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztecs.
What is Lake Texcoco?
The names of the two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The people whose job it was to write and keep records.
Who are scribes?
The man-made structure built to protect China and the Silk Road.
The Great Wall of China?
The two brothers who, according to legend, are said to have founded Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
The farming technique used by the Incas that flattened mountainsides.
What is terrace farming?
The pyramid temple that stands as the largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
Ancient Egyptian process of preserving bodies of the dead for the afterlife.
What is mummified?
The social structure of ancient India.
What is a caste system?
The separate areas developed each with their own government, due to the geography(mountains) of Greece.
What are city-states?
The religious ceremony conducted by Aztecs and Mayans to please the Gods.
What is human sacrificing?
The process by which Mesopotamians brought water from rivers to their fields.
What is irrigation?
The plant use to create paper-like writing material.
What is papyrus?
The religion that began in India and spread to China.
What is Buddhism?
The written laws carved into stone tablets placed in public view in ancient Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
A payment made by conquered peoples to the Aztecs.
The achievements that dramatically improved farming and driving.
What is the seeder plow and the wheel?
The sharing of ideas, values and beliefs through trade.
What is cultural diffusion?
The three major philosophies in ancient China.
What are Legalism, Confucianism, Daoism/Taoism?
The four forms of government used by ancient Greece.
What are Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Democracy?
A symbol included in the Mayan's 20 base mathematics system.
What is the concept of zero?