Mesopotamia
The first settlers of the Fertile Crescent
Who are the Sumerians?
These natural barriers led to Ancient Chinas isolation
What are the Gobi Desert and Taklimakan desert?
Where the Indus River Valley Civilization located
What is India?
The writing system of the Ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
What it means to be a Polytheistic Religion
What is the worship of multiple gods?
Their system of writing
What is cuneiform?
The Major Rivers of Ancient China
What are the Huang He and Yangtze River?
The rivers that supported the Indus River Valleys early life
What are the Indus and Ganges River?
The type of government in Ancient Egypt
What is a Theocracy?
These two rivers border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The phrase Mesopotamia means
What is "the land between the rivers"?
The Shang Dynasty used this type of writing to commune with ancestors
What is writing on Oracle Bones?
This geographic feature separated Ancient India and China
What are the Himalayas?
The main function of the pyramids
What are tomb for pharoahs?
A system where rulers were granted power by the gods/ancestors
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Mesopotamia is primarily located in this modern country
What is Iraq
This is why the Shang Tribe worshipped their dead ancestors
To keep them happy, to keep the health of the king and to have good harvests.
The two major cities of the Indus River Valley
What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
Where the Great Pyramid was constructed
What is Giza strip (outskirts of Cairo)
Characteristics of Hammurabi's Code
What is strict, harsh, clear, "an eye for an eye"?
The oldest known legal system
What is Hammurabi's Code or The Code of Hammurabi?
This Dynasty overthrew the Shang
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Mohenjo Daro was built in this fashion
What is organized and grid like?
The portion of Egypt located near the Nile Delta
What is Lower Egypt?
The River of Sorrows
What is the Huang He river?