Sumer
"Land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
Leader who is both king and god
What is a pharaoh?
Seasonal winds
What are monsoons?
Fertile windblown soil deposits
What is loess?
Spread of ideas from one culture to another
What is cultural diffusion?
Earliest writing used in Sumer (date)
What is 3300 B.C.?
Preservation process connected to belief in the afterlife
What is mummification?
Exclusive technology of Harappan civilization
What is indoor plumbing?
Divine approval of rule
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Hammurabi's Code of Law (date)
What is 1750 B.C.?
Government controlled by religious leaders
What is theocracy?
First pyramids built in Egypt (date)
What is 2630 B.C.?
Trading partner of Indus
What is Sumer? (or Mesopotamia)
Political system in which a king gives land to nobles in exchange for loyalty
What is feudalism?
Three civilizations with social classes
What is Sumer, Egypt, and China?
Significance of Epic of Gilgamesh
What is: story of legendary king in search of immortality, contains story of Great Flood, gives insight to beliefs and life of the time
Action and symbolic act of pharaoh Narmer (2)
What is uniting Upper and Lower Egypt and combining crowns?
Reason for many unknowns regarding Indus civilization
What is undeciphered language?
Object of ancient Chinese worship
What is ancestor worship?
Location of Nile delta
What is Lower Egypt?
Four facts about Hammurabi's Code of Law and its significance
What is: 282 laws, first written legal code, applied to all, covered all parts of life, showed government responsible for people
Difference of Egyptians' religious beliefs from Sumerians'
What is belief in afterlife according to deeds during lifetime
Names of three cities
What is Harappa, Kalibangan, and Mohenjo-Daro?
Highest virtue of Chinese society
What is respect to parents?
Common characteristics of river valley civilizations
What is: transportation and communication were promoted by mild climate, fertile soil, and natural waterways?