Mesopotamia
What two rivers are located in Mesopotamia? Also, what is the land between the rivers referred to as?
Tigris and Euphrates
Fertile Crescent
What two rivers are located in the Indus River Valley?
Indus and Ganges
What two rivers are located in Ancient China?
Yellow and Yangtze
What river is located in Ancient Egpty?
What does polytheistic mean?
The belief of many gods
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
Between two rivers
What are the seasonal winds called that dominate the Indus River Valley's climate?
Monsoons
What did the Chinese call their civilization?
The Middle Kingdom
What is the name for their writing system?
Hieroglyphics
What does theocracy mean?
When government is run by a religious leader such as a priest
What was the last empire we learned about to take over Mesopotamia, and created the largest empire the world had seen?
The Persian Empire
What natural barriers protect the Indus River Valley?
Mountains (Himalayas) and Desert (Thar)
What did the Chinese use to consult with the gods?
Oracle bones
What is unique about the Nile rivers flooding?
It was predictable
What is a dynasty?
A sequence of rulers from the same family
What is the pictographic system of writing called where a stylus is pressed into moist clay?
Cuneiform
What are the two major cities in the Indus River Valley?
Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro
What was unique about China's writing system?
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
Why did empires fall so easily? (Think about Mesopotamia)
Because having one ruler for a large territory made it easier for invaders to take over.
What is the Sumerian temple called? What does this word mean?
Ziggurat, and "Mountain of God"
What are two important achievements for the construction of these cities?
That they were built in a grid-system, and that almost every house had a private bathroom.
The Zhou Dynasty came up with a term for when bad things happen, the gods would favor a new dynasty to rise up and overthrow the current one. What is this term called?
The Mandate of Heaven
Describe what happens with Anubis and entering the afterlife
Anubis is the God/Guide of the Underworld. When you pass away, your heart is weighed against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth. If your heart weighed more than the feather, it was devoured by Ammitt. If your heart weighed less than the feather, you were accepted into the beautiful afterlife.
What is feudalism?
Feudalism is when kings gave trusted nobles and members of the royal family areas of land to govern. In return, they pledged their loyalty to the king and promised to protect the people living in the area that they govern.