The period during which the Great Pyramid of King Khufu at
Giza was constructed...
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
The father of Judaism...
Who is Abraham?
100
Two services that ancient Indian civilizations had that showed signs of a government...
What are trash services and a sewage system?
100
The geographic feature that isolated China from India...
What is the Himalayans?
100
The center of the Zapotec civilization.
What is Monte Albán?
200
United Upper and Lower Egypt together thus beginning the Old Kingdom.
Who is King Menes?
200
Scattered Israelites were also called...
What are "The Ten Lost Tribes?"
200
The group that gave up their nomadic lifestyle for farming in
the process of settling in India... (+2)
What are Aryans?
200
The upper class in Shang society whose wealth was land-based and who passed power from one generation to the next...
What is the aristocracy?
200
The "rubber people" were the first major civilization in Mesoamerica and were named after the trees in the area...
Who are the Olmec?
300
The longest river in the world, the annual flooding of which left a rich deposit of mud that enriched the soil and allowed
Egyptian farmers to grow a surplus of food...
What is the Nile River?
300
A civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean that built structures similar to the labyrinth of King Minos
was the... (+2)
What is the Minoan civilization?
300
Warm air currents in the summer that bring rains to the region...
What are Monsoons?
300
A basic principle of Chinese government, which allows a revolution to overthrow and replace a
corrupt ruler, is called... (+2)
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
Most of the people in the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán were...
What are farmers?
400
How was Egyptian society organized? What was it's shape?
Pharaoh on top with nobles and priests, warriors, farmers and artisans, slaves on the bottom. It is like a pyramid.
400
What made Judaism different from other religions during its time?
It was monotheistic. Political leaders could not claim they alone knew God's will. It was written down for everyone to share.
400
Religion and political power were closely linked in early Indian civilization, as is indicated by the combination of the royal palace and the holy temple in the citadel, or fortress, at...
What is Harappa?
400
It was believed that the king was the link between Heaven and Earth during the...
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
400
Two resources used in many of the crafts in Mesoamerican civilizations...
What are obsidian and jade?
500
What is Hieratic script and what was it used for? (+2)
Hieratic script is a simplified form of Hieroglyphics used mostly for record keeping and other business documents.
500
Established the first trade routes to England and the Western Coast of Africa...
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
An important river in India, with a valley that was cultivated for its rich farmland after the invention of the iron plow made it possible to clear the dense growth along its banks...
What is the Ganges River Valley?
500
Belief that children needed to take care of their parents when they grow old...
What is filial piety?
500
Around 900BC, the Chavin people built a temple surrounded by two pyramids and stone figures depicting different gods in the coastal regions of what is now... (+2)