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Geography
Indus River Valley (India)
Mesopotamia
Egypt
China
100
Which mountain range was a barrier for the northern portion of ancient India?
What are the Himalayan Mountains
100
Around what river did the first people in ancient India first settle?
What is the Indus River
100
Around what two rivers did the ancient Mesopotamian's first settle?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Around what river did the ancient Egyptians first settle?
What is the Nile River
100
Around what river did the ancient Chinese first settle?
What is the Huang He or Yellow River
200
What brings winds and strong weather into India twice a year causing flooding and droughts?
What is a monsoon
200
What crop were the ancient Indus River Valley people famous for farming first?
What is cotton
200
What are two inventions the ancient Mesopotamia's created first?
What are the wheel, arch, chariot, ramp, unit of time, and twelve month calendar.
200
What process did the Egyptians use to help their dead into the afterlife, showing us how important religion was to their civilization?
What is mummification
200
What is a series of rulers from a family?
What is a dynasty
300
What was the name of the region where ancient Mesopotamia was located?
What is the Fertile Crescent
300
What did the ancient Indus River Valley people create that was so unique during their time period?
What is a plumbing system
300
What are the name of the temples the ancient Mesopotamian's built that can still be seen today?
What are Ziggurats
300
What was the name of the writing form used by the ancient Egyptians?
What is Hieroglyphics
300
Who did the ancient Chinese believe helped guide them in their everyday lives?
Who are their ancestors
400
What famous trading route went from Europe to China and was known for transmitting goods and ideas among civilizations.
What is the Silk Road
400
How do we know the Indus River Valley people had such a strong central government?
What are planned cities
400
What was the name of the first written language created by the ancient Mesopotamian's?
What is Cuneiform
400
What were pharaohs of ancient Egypt depicted as?
What are God-Kings
400
What justified Chinese emperors to ruler over their entire civilization?
What is the Mandate of Heaven
500
What is the acronym used for to identify the five themes of geography?
What is MR. HELP
500
What group of nomadic warriors crossed through the Hindu Kush mountains to conquer the people of the Indus River Valley?
Who are the Aryans
500
What is a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmlands
What is a city-state
500
What was left next to the dead to help guide them in the afterlife?
What is the Book of the Dead
500
What is it called when a civilization believes it is at the center of the world and all other civilizations revolve around them?
What is ethnocentrism