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Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Indus Valley
Ancient China
Potpurri
100
This is the name of the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mespotamia
100
This is the part of Egypt between Memphis and the First Cataract.
What is Upper Egypt?
100
Seasonal change in winds on the Indian subcontinent that blow dry, cool air from October to May and warm, moist air from June to September.
What are monsoons?
100
The legendary first dynasty of China - most likely not real.
What is the Xia Dynasty?
100
The type of religion where there are many gods who are worshipped
What is polytheism?
200
He conquered all of Sumer and made the first empire.
Who is Sargon/Sargon of Akkad/Sargon the Great?
200
Most of the pyramids were built during this period of Ancient Egyptian History.
What is the Old Kingdom?
200
The presence of these artifacts at Indus Valley archaeological sites suggests that the civilization had free time and was generally prosperous.
What are toys? or What is jewelry?
200
Ancient Chinese priests wrote questions to the gods on these.
What are oracle bones?
200
This is the fertile plain between the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers.
What is the Northern China Plain?
300
One of the earliest examples of using writing for reasons other than record keeping.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
These people ruled Egypt and were considered to be gods on Earth.
Who were pharaohs?
300
The reason we do not know much about the Indus Valley Civilization is because we cannot interpret what part of their culture.
What is their written language?
300
Chinese belief that a dynasty has the blessing to rule by the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
The boundary between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt was this city.
What is Memphis?
400
The curved area in the Middle East that is suitable for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
This geographic feature allowed people to travel south along the Nile River
What are the prevailing winds from the Mediterranean Sea?
400
One of the theories of the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization is that they may have been invaded by these nomadic people.
Who are the Aryans?
400
The process that historians use to describe the change in power from one Chinese dynasty to the next
What is the dynastic cycle?
400
This is the spreading of culture from the interaction of one group of people with another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
Before Sumerian kings started dynasties, these people were the first rulers of Sumerian cities.
Who are priests/priests and priestesses?
500
This is the aspect of Egyptian life around which all other events revolved.
What is the flooding of the Nile River?
500
What are the two rivers around which the Indus Valley Civilization flourished?
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River?
500
The yellow colored silt given by the Huang He because of sand that blows from the Gobi Desert.
What is loess?
500
One of the theories for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization is the drying of this river.
What is the Sarswati River?