Mesopotamia
What were the Sumerians' pyramid-like structures called?
What are ziggurats?
What natural geographic barriers lead to Ancient China's isolation?
What are the Gobi Desert, Taklimakan Desert, and Himalayan Mountains?
What are the seasonal winds called that dominate India's climate and determine when flooding occurs?
What is the "Gift of the Nile"?
What are some characteristics of Hammurabi's Code?
What is strict, harsh, clear, "an eye for an eye"
What was the system of writing in Mesopotamia called?
What is cuneiform
What are the names of the major rivers that make up China's river valley?
What are the Huang He and Yangtze River?
What were the rivers that supported the Indus River Valleys early life?
What is the Indus and Ganges River?
What are Egyptian god-kings called?
What is a pharaoh?
What do you call someone who is constantly moving from one place to another in search of food?
Nomad
Name one of their inventions
What is wheel?
What did the Shang Dynasty priests scratch questions into to ask the gods?
What are Oracle Bones?
What are the countries that make up the Indus Valley today?
What are India, Pakistan, and Bagladesh?
What type of government did Egypt have in which the rule is based on religious authority?
What is theocracy?
What is the change when people stopped hunting and gathering and started growing food and domesticating animals?
What did the Chinese king's call it when they claim their power came from the gods?
What is Mandate of Heaven?
What were the two religions of the Indus River Valley Civilization?
What is Hinduism and Buddhism?
What is the delta?
What is the process in which new ideas or a product spreads from one culture to another?
What is cultural diffusion?
What is the oldest known legal system?
What is Hammurabi's Code or The Code of Hammurabi
What do historians call the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of their ruling families?
What is Dynastic Cycle?
What mountain range is to the north of the Indus River Valley?
What is Himalayan Mountains?
What were the points on the Nile River called with boulders and churning rapids?
What are cataracts?
What do you call a religion that believes in more than one god?
What is polytheistic?