Ancient Egypt Geography
This is the continent Egypt is found on.
What is Africa?
This is the continent China is found on.
What is Asia?
This is the architecture Ancient Egypt is mostly known for.
What are the pyramids?
Ancient China is famous for this architectural wonder.
What is the Great Wall of China?
A pharaoh is the leader from here
Where is Ancient Egypt?
Most of Ancient Egypt is surrounded by this geographic feature. (Hint... it is the largest one of these in the world)
What is the Sahara Desert?
This famous mountain range is home to Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
This is the name of Ancient Egyptian writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
This contribution made written language more accessible to all and is one of the most impactful contributions from Ancient China.
(hint - this replaced the use of papyrus)
What is paper?
An emperor is a leader from here
Where is Ancient China?
People settled along this geographic feature. This brought life to the area and made the soil fertile.
What is the Nile River?
This important river is nicknamed the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He River?
The paper they made was called this. (Hint - it is named after what it is made out of)
What is papyrus paper?
This contribution was made by unraveling the cocoon of a silkworm to make a shiny, beautiful fabric.
What is silk.
Writing called characters is from here
Where is Ancient China?
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
This geographic feature was a natural barrier to the north west of China. (hint - the Great Wall of China ends here)
What is the Gobi Desert?
This is the term that describes bringing water to crops.
Bonus - extra 100 points if you can name the type of lever they used to collect water.
What are irrigation systems?
Bonus - What is the shadoof?
What are silk, paper, fireworks, characters, kite, porcelain, bronze, compass, and lantern?
Scribes were found here
Where is Egypt?
This describes the climate of Ancient Egypt.
What is hot and dry?
The climate of China is similar to the climate of the United States in this way. (extra 100 points if you can say WHY this is)
What is there are four seasons?
Bonus: This is because they are on a similar location on earth (Northern Hemisphere)
These are three contributions that help us tell time.
What are the water clock, calendar, and obelisk?
Ancient China got rich by trading many of their contributions along this route.
What is the Silk Road?
A special kind of farming done on the side of a hill or mountain came from here.
Bonus - extra 100 points if you know what this is called?
Where is China?
Bonus - What is terraced farming?