Mesopotamia
The two rivers that provided fresh water for the civilizations in the present-day Middle East, then called the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
The longest river in the world, which spans most of the continent of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The body of water that Moses parted with his staff when the Israelites escaped slavery in Egypt.
This mountain range separates the subcontinent of India from the rest of Asia, and Mt. Everest is its tallest peak.
What are the Himalayas?
These are the heavy annual storms in India that cause immense flooding.
What are monsoons?
The ruler of a city or region in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a king?
The ruler of Ancient Egypt, usually male but sometimes female.
What is a pharaoh?
What is a rabbi?
The head of the religious life in Ancient Indian cities, and able to communicate with gods.
What is a priest?
This is the word for food that is approved under Jewish law for the people of God to eat.
What is kosher?
He made the first written code of laws so that all people would know the rules of the land.
Who is Hammurabi?
One of the most famous pharaohs, who died when he was still quite young under mysterious circumstances.
Who is King Tut?
The founder of Judaism who made a covenant with God, and therefore established the world's oldest monotheistic religion.
Who is Abraham?
In this polytheistic religion, followers worship many different gods who are each in charge of different aspects of life; they also celebrate the Holi Festival.
What is Hinduism?
This writing system in Ancient Egypt used pictures for sounds to make words.
What are heiroglyphics?
This form of writing was invented in Ancient Mesopotamia, and involved pressing lines into clay tablets to make symbols.
What is cuneiform?
These are enormous structures, and house the tombs of pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
This is the city that was established as Israel's capital and still stands to this day.
What is Jerusalem?
This marvel of modern medicine was first practiced in Ancient India, and helped many people avoid getting certain diseases.
What is inoculation?
This was the process of taming wild beasts to be helpful in people's homes and communities, like training and breeding wolves into dogs and wild steers into milk cows.
What is the domestication of animals?
This is a temple in Ancient times used by a variety of early polytheistic religions.
What is a ziggurat?
This set of instructions outlined how hearts would be weighed by Anubis against a feather to see what one's afterlife would be like.
What is the Book of the Dead?
The 3 big kings of the Old Testament, including Israel's first king, the king who fought Goliath, and the king who built the temple.
Who are Saul, David, and Solomon?
The founder of Buddhism, who believed in reincarnation and karma, and sought to escape earth through achieving Nirvana.
Who is Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)?
These are the 5 traits of all ancient civilizations.
What are cities, better technology, record-keeping, specialized workers, and complex institutions?