Cities
Anyang was its first capital city
What is China?
A line of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
Paper material made from reeds
What is papyrus?
Another name for “untouchables”
What is a pariah?
Stupas and Ziggarats are examples of
What are shrines or temples?
Memphis was the first capital city of this empire
What is Egypt?
Another name for a ruler:
What is a king OR pharoah OR emperor?
The world's first writing system
What is cuneiform?
The group just below the Pharaoh in ancient Egypt's class structure
Who were the priests and nobles?
Pyramids were built in Egypt's Old Kingdom, but Pharoahs in the Middle Kingdom were buried at
What is the Valley of the Kings?
The pyramids were located near this Egyptian city
Where is Giza?
The appointed officials responsible for different areas of government
What is a bureaucracy?
The Aryans developed this ancient form of writing after they came to India
What is Sanskrit?
The group at the bottom of the class structure in Mesopotamia?
What were enslaved people? (debtors and prisoners of war)
The longest epic poem written in any language?
What is the Mahabharata?
Nineveh and Babylon were cities in this civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
A group of nations or territories under a single ruler or government is
What is an empire?
Two or more pictographs join together to make this
What is an ideograph?
In Ancient India, the class structure that one was born into and could not change in this life
What is the caste system?
Archaeologists found these guarding the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi
What are the Terra Cotta Warriors?
The two main cities of the Ancient Indus River Valley
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
This exam was to ensure that the government hired the most qualified people
What is the civil service exam?
The oldest examples of Chinese writing were on
What are oracle bones?
The reason Chinese merchants were lower class than peasants
What is the fact that making money for oneself was looked down upon? OR What is not part of Confucianism?
The world’s oldest known written story
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?