These were constructed to ensure that the pharoh's family had an afterlife.
What are the pyramids?
100
It is the area in modern Iraq, located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and is known as the birth pace of early culture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
These mountains deposited silt and sediment annually to re-fertilize the fields of the Indus River Valley
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
100
These are the two most important waterways in East Asia.
What are the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?
100
Afro Eurasia includes land found on these three continents.
What are Africa, Europe, and Asia?
200
This is the largest trading route in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
200
This is a mountain range located East of the Tigris river and protected Mesopotamia from outside invaders.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
200
These were the two principal cities of the Indus River valley.
What are Mohenjo Daro and Harappa?
200
This was the earliest religious practice in the Eastern Asia region.
What is shamanism?
200
These were three principal trade commodities of the Afro-Eurasian region.
What are horses, beer, and weapons?
300
Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy was very stratified, with Kings and Pharaohs at the top and slaves at the bottom of the social latter. This group held neither a religious nor a political position, but they had significant social power because of their ability to write.
What is a scribe?
300
This is a writing system that developed in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
The people of the Indus River Valley were the first to innovate this system. A tool they used to calculate the weight and density of clay bricks.
What is the system of weights and measurements?
300
This was the "nickname" give to the Longzhuo people, which is based on the products they made.
What is the ""jade people"?
300
The Anatolian region lacked this, forcing the people of this region to live in small, warring communities.
What is a river or river basin.
400
These three bodies of water influenced early Egyptian culture.
What are the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the Nile River.
400
This was a main political and religious structure in Mesopotamia.
What is a temple?
400
The cities of the Indus River Valley valued public health and sanitation, evidenced by their technology in this public system.
What is plumbing?
400
Due to the heavy rains and large water ways, the people of Eastern Asia became experts in developing these.
What are irrigation systems?
400
This is the principal metal that could be found in the European region.
What is copper?
500
These are the four principal duties of the King/Pharaoh of Egypt.
What is
keeping peace between Egyptians,
keeping cities organized and running,
keeping the gods happy,
and fending off invaders?
500
Textiles, oils, wheat.
What are three commodities that Mesopotamia traded?
500
Of the four early river basin cultures, the people of the Indus River Valley were the first to use this to organize their communities.
What is city planning?
500
This is the primary agricultural product of the Eastern Asian region.
What is rice?
500
The communities on the margins of the Afro-Eurasian region tended to be more egalitarian because they lacked this, a resource that helps regions developed large, stratified city-states and organized cultures.