Mesopotamia
Mesopotamians built these great temples to honor their gods...
What are ziggurats?
The passing down of family power from one generation to another is called a...
What is a dynasty?
This mountain range separates India from other countries...
What are the Himalayas?
Ancient Egyptians built these monumental burial tombs to honor their kings and gods...
What are pyramids?
Osirus, polytheism, Tut, pharaohs, Africa...
What is ancient Egypt?
Ancient Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers...
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The ancient Chinese civilization developed between these two rivers...
What are the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers?
The ancient Indian civilization developed along this river...
What is the Indus River?
The ancient Egyptian civilization developed along this river known for its seasonal floods...
What is the Nile River?
Karma, Mojendo Daro, Sanscrit, Citadel
What is ancient India?
Mesopotamia was home to these four great city-state civilizations.
What are Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylon, and Assyria?
This Chinese philosophy was based on the belief that there is lightness and darkness in the world and harmony between the two can be reached...
What is Taoism?
There were two major religions which developed in India. They were...
What is Hinduism and Buddhism?
Egypt, ruled by 31 dynasties for over 3000 years, was divided into these three periods of time...
What is the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom?
Gunpowder, Yin and Yang, Terracotta Army, Great Wall
What is ancient China?
Ancient laws based on the idea of "an eye for an eye" were known as...
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This belief allowed the ancient Chinese rulers to believe they were destined to rule over people...
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This social system placed people into classes determined by their birth with the highest position being the "brahmans" and the lowest being the "untouchables."
What is the Caste System?
The Great Pyramid of Giza was protected by...
What is the Great Sphinx?
polytheistic, epic, cuneiform, "an eye for an eye"
What is Mesopotamia?
Mesopotamia's first great civilization, Sumeria, was responsible for developing this form of writing...
What is Cuneiform?
This philosophy is based on the idea that there are 5 basic relationships in life and these relationships are based upon respect and merit.
What is Confucianism?
This Indian religion has the belief that a person, after death, can come back to Earth as a different person or form depending upon how one lived his/her life...
What is Hinduism?
The Egyptians invented this form of writing _____ and wrote on ____, another of their inventions...
What is Hieroglyphics and papyrus?
trade routes, silk, spices, ivory, gold, elephants
What is the Silk Road?