Mesopotamia
Name given to the area in Mesopotamia with good soil for planting crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Ancient Egyptians build pyramids for these specific people.
What are Pharaohs?
The river that runs through Ancient China.
What is the Yellow River?
Name of the Ancient Indian social structure system.
What is the Caste System?
Landforms that give protection to civilizations from invaders. (i.e. deserts)
What are natural barriers?
Mesopotamia's written language.
What is cuneiform?
Ancient Egypt's written language.
What are Hieroglyphics?
Man-made border that China used to stop invasions.
What is the Great Wall?
Another name for Siddhartha Guatame.
Who is Buddha?
Two civilizations that believed in an afterlife.
What are Ancient Egypt and China?
Two rivers that were important to the civilizations of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Name of the river that flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Name of ruler of Ancient China.
What is an Emperor?
The river that runs through Ancient Indus Valley.
What is the Indus River?
Name the 7 Characteristics of a Civilization
What are G.R.A.P.E.S?
Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economics
Social Structure
The process by which Mesopotamians controlled the flooding rivers.
What is irrigation?
One invention that came from Ancient Egyptians.
What is a calendar, Paper (papyrus), sun dial, makeup?
Name of famous families who ruled Ancient China.
What are Dynasties?
Name the type of storm that would bring rain to the Indus Valley.
What is a monsoon?
Four reasons people in early civilizations settled near rivers.
What are: - Water Source -
Animals for food/hunting -
Flooding gave fertile soil -
Flat land for planting crops and building shelter
The first written code of law.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
The process that Egyptians used to prepare a body for burial.
What is mummification?
Two major religions in ancient China.
What is Confucianism and Buddhism?
Buddha found this many noble truths.
What is four?
The disease that was brought to Europe by fleas.
What is the Plague or Black Death?