Mesopotamia
The first civilization of Mesopotamia, they appeared around 4000 BCE.
Who is Sumer/the Sumerians?
The Indus Civilization planned around this natural occurrence to maximize their agriculture.
What is flooding?
The river that functioned as China's "Cradle of Civilization."
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
Developments in this allowed civilizations to be formed by allowing more food to be grown more efficiently and on a wider scale.
What is agriculture?
Another name used for the area of Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The name of a famous Babylonian King's system of justice and punishments.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This technological innovation was created by the Indus, which they used for stamping and trading.
What is seal-making?
This religious and political idea based around just rule shaped China's dynasties for centuries.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
An important innovation created by the third dynasty of China, it revolutionized the way farmers would plant and organize their crops.
What is crop rotation?
The third and longest lasting dynasty of China.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Mesopotamian civilizations built these to worship the gods at and to show their power.
What are ziggurats?
Archeological evidence suggests that the Indus Civilization worshipped this religious icon/figure.
What is an Earth Goddess/Mother Goddess?
The king of the Shang, he overthrew the previous dynasty's ruler and established the second Dynasty of China.
Who is King Tang?
The mathematical system invented by Mesopotamian civilizations regarding time, measurements, and angles.
What is the Base 60 System?
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
What is Bureaucracy?
The name of one of the oldest surviving literary stories.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The city named "Mound of the Dead Men" and the location of the archeological ruins of The Great Bath.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
The man who tamed the Yellow River by building canals and who is a founder of a Dynasty.
Who is Yu the Great?
This innovation of the Indus allowed people to live in fairly clean houses.
What are sewers/drainage systems?
A political ideology based around the idea that in order to have a good society, citizens must follow strict laws and authority, which gives rulers power in law.
What is legalism?
The great ruler of Akkad who formed the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
This Indus Valley city was an important center and where the Indus Civilization gets its name by which it is often referred to.
What is Harappa?
This popular Chinese religion is based around the balance of the universe and the relationship between yin and yang.
What is Taoism?
This innovation, created in both Indus and Ancient Chinese civilizations, allowed them to create materials, tools, and weapons out of tin, copper, iron, and bronze.
What is metallurgy?
The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
What is Cultural Diffusion?