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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
What saying describes the type of punishments given in Hammurabi's Code?
What is "an eye for an eye"
100
Name three benefits that societies living in a river valley have over other civilizations?
What is trade, transportation, rich soil, various resources, food, water source, etc.
100

According to Egyptian beliefs, what happens when a person's heart is lighter than a feather? If it's heavier?

Lighter: happy afterlife; heavier: fed to a monster.

200
What natural product did Mesopotamians write on?
What is clay?
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 were the 4 mesoamerican civilizations called?

Olmec, Aztec, Maya, Inca

200

What evidence suggests that the Indus Valley cities had a well-organized government?

grid-like cities with plumbing and sewer systems

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
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
300

Why did ancient Egyptians preserve bodies of the dead?

To ensure they went to the afterlife.

300

Which civilization first developed the civil service system, feudalism, and invented paper for easier writing abilities?

Ancient China

400
What was the name of the form of writing invented by ancient Egyptians?
What is hieroglyphics?
400

The history of ___________ was shaped by the monsoon cycle, the Himalayan Mountains, and the Hindu Kush Mountains.

Indus River Valley

400
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
400

What emperor built the Great Wall of China?

Shi Huang Di.

400

What was the Silk Road?

Trade route that connected China to the Mediterranean Sea
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 are the two rivers for Ancient China?

Yangtze and Hueng He Rivers

500

This was the largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city.

Ziggurat

500

The rise, decline, and replacement of rulers in ancient China was based on the __________________.

The Mandate of Heaven

500

Who were the three pharaohs that the Giza Complex was built for?

Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure