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100
What was the first form of writing called?
What is cuneiform?
100
What river flows through Egypt?
What is the Nile
100
Monotheism is defined as what?
What is the belief in one and only one god
100
_____________ were considered the lowest class of people in Egyptian societies.
What is slaves
100
What was the title of the leader of the Egyptian government?
A Pharaoh
200

Which dynasty in China first developed a writing system? 

What is the Shang Dynasty?

200
What two rivers surrounded ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
_____________ is the belief in several gods.
What is polytheism
200

What job employed the most people in Egypt?

Who are farmers

200
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
300
From what plant did the Egyptians make a type of paper product, called by the same name as the plant?
What is papyrus
300

Mesopotamia is also known the ________________ due its prime location between two rivers that created rich soil

What is "Fertile Crescent"

300

Ancient Egyptians buried their Pharaohs in tombs called _________________

What are pyramids

300

What did the people of the Shang Dynasty use for their early writing system?

What are oracle Bones: questions written on animal bones and turtle shells which were read to predict the future.

300
What two groups of people were the leaders of the Mesopotamian government?
Who are the Priests and Kings
400

What caused the Harappan Civilization (India) to collapse?

What is historians do not know for sure but possibly:  natural disaster or invaders

400

Why is the Yellow River in China sometimes called "China's Sorrow"?

What is over the years it has caused much devastation and millions of deaths.

400

In ancient Egypt, why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, and other treasures?

What is Egyptians believed the dead enjoyed such materials in the afterlife

400

True or False: All people in Era 2 lived in civilizations

What is true

400

What are the characteristics that must be present in order to call a place a civilization? 

What are: 

- agricultural economy, writing, technology, buildings, cities, centralized gov., dense populations, specialization of labor, social hierarchy, and religion. 

500

How are hieroglyphics and cuneiform different? 

What is hieroglyphics used ideograms and phonograms. Hieroglyphics were on papyrus and had fewer characters.
Cuneiform used only ideograms, was on a clay tablet, and had more characters. 

500

How did empires within civilizations gain control of new land?

What is military campaigns as means to expand their area of control.

500

True or false: Indus River Valley Civilization (India) worshipped their kings as gods. 

What is false 

500

What were the characteristics of Harappan Civilization (Indus Valley Civilization).

What are well-planned cities,  fortresses where defenders could look down on the city streets, public wells like “The Great Bath”

500

What was Hammurabi’s code?


What is a public code of laws, based on the idea that punishment should fit the crime