Geography
Vocabulary
Egypt
India and China
Greece
100

The tallest mountain range in the world.

What are the Himalayan mountains?

100

An Ancient Trade route between China and Europe.

What is the Silk Road?

100

The title of the leader of Egypt.

What is a pharaoh?

100

The name of the Chinese philosopher who taught about the Golden Rule.

Who is Confucius?

100

The main god of the Greeks.

Who is Zeus?

200

The name of the mouth of many rivers where soil is deposited. It looks like a triangle.

What is a delta?

200

The term for "complete control over someone or something."

What is absolute power?
200
The place Egyptians believed the souls of Pharaohs go after death.

What is the Afterlife?

200

Emperor Shi Huangdi built this structure that helped defend China's northern border.

What is the Great Wall of China?

200

The Parthenon is built in honor of this god.

Who is Athena?

300

The longest river in the world.

What is the Nile river?

300

The rebirth of the soul in the body of another living being.

What is reincarnation?

300

The shape of the tombs of the pharaohs?

What are pyramids?

300

The region of China where farming happened and was most fertile.

What is the North China Plain?

300

This man helped start democracy in Greece and allowed poor people to get a salary for working in government.

Who is Pericles?

400
The type of land Greece had little of.

What is farmland?

400

A mineral or a combination of minerals mined for the production of metals.

What is ore?

400

What is the name of the god of the underworld for the Egyptians?

Who is Osiris? 

400
The name of the leader of India under the Maurya Empire who became a Buddhist.

Who is Asoka?

400
This is the form of payment Athens made its neighbors pay.

What is tribute?

500

This type of landform provided Egypt with protection from invasions.

What is desert?

500

The lasting peace that Buddhists seek by giving up selfish desries.

What is nirvana?

500

The name of the plant that created the first paper.

What is papyrus? 

500
The way Buddhists believed was the correct way to reach Nirvana.

What is the Middle Way?

500

The name all Greeks called themselves in Ancient Greece.

What are Hellenes?