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100
What was the first form of writing called?
What is cuneiform?
100

What direction does the Nile flow?

What is South to North

100

_____________ is the belief in several gods.

What is polytheism

100

What is a large society that is highly organized and can pass down written information from one generation to the next

What is a civilization?

100
What was the title of the leader of the Egyptian government?
A Pharaoh
200

Civilization that created the 365 calendar, potter's wheel, and aches. 

What is Sumer?

200
What two rivers surrounded ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
Ancient Egyptians buried their Pharaohs in tombs called _________________
What is pyramids
200
How did humans change from the old to the new stone age?
They began living in farming villages, raising animals and crops
200
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
300

Skill that historians and archeologists use to study the Indus Valley Civilization because we cannot read their writing system. 

What are inferences
300
Mesopotamia is also known the ________________ due its prime location between two rivers that created rich soil
What is "Fertile Crescent"
300

Religious text from ancient civilization that recorded flood. 

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh

300
What civilization placed merchants at the bottom of social structure? 

What is China

300
A _____________ is a city and surrounding land that make up an independent state, with its own ruler, army, and laws.
What is a city-state
400
What was the name of the form of writing invented by ancient Egyptians?
What is hieroglyphics?
400

What two geographic features impacted the development of the Minoan civilization?

What are mountains and islands

400

What are the three names of the Egyptians Gods that are in the Pyramid myth.  

Who are Set, Osiris, Isis

400

Name of Sumerian Priest-Kings

Who are Patesi

400
What saying describes the type of punishments given in Hammurabi's Code?
What is "an eye for an eye"
500
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is a stone with writings that have been translated into the same message in three different languages
500

What is the other name for the Huang He River?

What is the Yellow River

500

System of believe that gave emperors right to rule

Mandate of Heaven

500

What evidence is there that Indus Valley and Mesopotamia civilization trades?

What are Seals
500

Name of three ancient Chinese dynasties in order (with correct pronunciation). 

Xia, Shang, Zhou