Mesopotamia
Nile River Valley
Indus River Valley
Neolithic Revolution
Other
100

What were the first settlers of this area called? (Fertile Crescent)

Who are the Sumerians?

100

Where is the Nile River Valley Located?

What is Ancient Egypt?

100

Where is the Indus River Valley Civilization located? 

What is India and or Pakistan? 

100

What development during the Neolithic Revolution allowed for the exchange of goods and resources between communities?

What is trade?

100

Which geographic feature had the greatest influence on ancient Egypt?

What is the Nile River?

200

What was their system of writing?

What is cuneiform?

200

What natural occurrence provided fertile soil along the Nile, crucial for farming?

What is the annual flooding?

200

What is one of the two great cities of the Indus Valley civilization?

What is Mohenjo-Daro or Harappa?

200

What key tool, developed during the Neolithic Revolution, was essential for farming and food production?

What is the plow?

200

How did the introduction of agriculture affect early peoples?

What is the development of Civilizations?

300

Which two rivers are essential to the development of Mesopotamian civilization?

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

300

What writing system was developed by the ancient Egyptians to record their language and culture?

What is hieroglyphics?

300

What major factor is believed to have contributed to the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1900 BCE?

What is climate change? (BUT WE DON'T OFFICIALLY KNOW!)

300

What demographic change occurred as a result of the Neolithic Revolution, leading to increased food production?

What is population growth?

300

What is the process of taming wild animals for human use, which played a key role in the development of agriculture?

What is domestication?

400

What does Mesopotamia mean?

What is "the land between the rivers"?

400

What monumental structures were built as tombs for pharaohs in the Nile Valley?

What are pyramids?

400

What feature of Indus Valley cities indicates their advanced knowledge of sanitation (& hygiene)?

What are public baths or drainage systems?

400

What was one significant social outcome of the Neolithic Revolution, resulting in the formation of permanent settlements?

What is the establishment of villages (or civilizations)?

400

What type of government is ruled by religious leaders and is based on religious law?

What is Theocracy?

500

What is the oldest known legal system?

What is Hammurabi's Code?

500

What are the three periods in which Egypt is organized?

What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdoms?

500

What agricultural technique involving the controlled flooding of fields was utilized in the Indus Valley? (HINT** All of the Riv. Civs. had some sort of system involving this!**)

What is irrigation?

500

True or False: One result of the Neolithic Revolution was the establishment of villages and the rise of governments.

What is true?

500

What major transition involved the shift from hunting and gathering to farming?

What is the Neolithic Revolution?