Mesopotamia
The two rivers that defined Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates?
This River flows North in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The two rivers that defined ancient India.
What are the Indus and the Ganges rivers?
The two rivers that defined ancient China.
What are the Huang He (yellow) and Yangtze rivers?
Human beings adopted this during the Neolithic Revolution, the single greatest change in human history...
What is agriculture?
What are Ziggurats?
Historians are unsure if they were used in the construction of the pyramids...
What are slaves?
What was Mohenjo-Daro?
Bones used to predict the future by priests and mystics.
What are Oracle Bones?
A cartographer is known to make these for a living...
What are maps?
Man-made waterways for irrigation and transportation.
What are canals?
The title of the ancient Egyptian ruler with absolute power.
What is a Pharaoh?
There was no invasion. The Harappa likely left the Indus River because of climate change or a catastrophic...
What is an Earthquake?
The constant rise and fall of ruling families in China...
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
The imaginary line that runs East to West and separates Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres...
What is the Equator?
The belief in many gods or goddesses.
What is polytheism?
Pictographs used in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphs?
Harappans living in Mohenjo-Daro were lucky enough to enjoy insulated homes and this other revolutionary technology...
What is indoor plumbing?
Emperors in ancient China claimed authority from this...
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
These moral codes were followed by the ancient Hebrews and defined both Jewish and Christian teachings.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Ancient ruler who created a law code meant to provide a punishment suitable for each crime in society... An Eye for an Eye...
Who is Hammurabi?
Gave guidance and information to souls passing on to the after life...
What was the Book of the Dead?
What are Monsoons?
The first two dynasties in ancient Chinese history.
What are the Shang and Zhou dynasties?
The capital of ancient Israel.
What is Jerusalem?