Terms
A political unit in which a number of people or countries are controlled by a single ruler
What is an Empire
The other civilization they traded with
What is Mesopotamia
Chinese form of writing
What are pictographs
It is situated between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates
The mouth of The Nile River where the fertile land is, where it flows north into the Mediterranean Sea
What is The Delta
A tall reed that was used to write on
What is Papyrus
The biggest building in their city
What is the Public Bath
The belief that the Emperor has a divine authority to rule
What is the Mandate of Heaven
The name for the area that held land that was great for growing crops.
What is The Fertile Crescent
The name of their God-Kings
What is Pharaoh
Cities that formed their own government - and ran like a modern independent state
What are City-States
This form of their waste disposal technology was not matched in the west for centuries
What is plumbing
The mountain chain that isolated China from the other civilizations
What is the Himalayan Mountain Chain
They invented this round object
What is the wheel
The Egyptian way of writing
What is hieroglyphics
Belief in more than one God
What is Polytheism
The two rivers that surround the valley
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River
The form of Government where the Emperor grants authority to the nobles in exchange for military and financial support
What is Feudalism
A tool invented by Mesopotamians that would help farmers in the fields.
What is a plow
The pharaohs built these tombs using slave labor to live out their afterlives in luxury
What are the pyramids
Spreading of ideas / products from one culture to another
What is Cultural-Diffusion
How the civilization ended
It is a mystery (possibly disease/natural disasters)
The Shang government made tools, weapons, and religious items out of this material.
What is Bronze?
Settlers who settled upstream had the power to cut this off to those settling downstream
What is water (through damming)
The 3 stages of the Nile flood that Egyptians celebrated
1. Inundation 2. Emergence 3. Flood