Mesopotamia
The two rivers that went through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The river that Egyptians depended on for trade.
What is the Nile River?
These two mountains limited contact between India and other people resulting in a very distinct culture.
What is the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains?
Geographic barriers caused this belief that they were better than others.
What is ethnocentrism?
The belief in multiple Gods.
What is Polytheism?
The written code of laws that came from Mesopotamia (Babylon in particular).
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Egyptians viewed this person as a God.
What is the pharaoh?
These were the two main cities of the Indus valley.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
The names of what keeps the universe in balance.
What is yin and yang?
Who are mystics?
This was the name for Mesopotamia's writing system.
What is cuneiform?
The name of the Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
This innovation was used to filter waste away from clean water.
What is a modern plumbing system?
Chinese used these in their writings.
What is pictographs/ideographs?
The name for the land between two rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The temple's in the center of the cities to its particular God.
What is a ziggurat?
Egyptians developed this, which we still use today with a few modifications.
What is the calendar?
This group invaded and created a new Indian civilization.
What are the Aryans?
The divine right to rule.
What is the mandate of heaven?
This is considered the earliest surviving great work of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
These people were credited with creating the wheel.
Who are the Sumerians?
This Egyptian pharaoh increased the size of the Egyptian empire to Syria during the New Kingdom.
Who is Ramses II?
These four groups make up Aryan society and lead to the caste system.
What is Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras?
The cycle that describes the change of power in China. (You must also explain how it works)
What is the dynastic cycle?
The social order of Egypt.
What is the pharaoh and royal family -> wealthy landowners, government officials, priests, army commanders -> merchants,artisans -> peasant farmers and laborers -> slaves