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Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Indus R.Valley
Ancient China
100
a marshy area formed by silt deposits at the mouth of some rivers
What is a delta?
100
a religious temple in ancient Summeria built to please the gods
What is a ziggurat?
100
the Egyptian writing system
What is hieroglyphics?
100
archeologists use this as evidence that ancient the Indus civilization had a very organized government
What are its carefully planned cities?
100
cultural diffusion between China and other early civilizations was hindered by this geographic feature
What are the Himalayas?
200
a form of writing composed of wedge-shaped marks into a clay tablet
What is cuneiform?
200
the first set of written laws
What is Code of Hammurabi?
200
was used to decipher ancient Egyptian writing and language
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
holy book that laid the foundations for Hinduism
What is the Vedas?
200
early examples of Chinese writing were left by Shang Priests on these
What are oracle bones?
300
the seasonal winds of India that bring rain
What is the monsoons?
300
Persian thinker who promoted the belief in monotheism
Who is Zoroaster?
300
a major architectural achivement of the Old Kingdom (also resulted in economic difficulties)
What are the Great Pyramids of Giza?
300
written language of the Vedic age
What is Sanskrit?
300
According to this, the gods would end their support for a weak or corrupt ruler.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
the female ruler of Egpyt who encouraged trade during the New Kingdom
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
the world's first civilization
What is Sumer?
400
the government official who supervised tax collection, irrigation, and other government matters
What is the vizier?
400
word for priests
What is brahmin?
400
civilization in China began on the banks of this river
What is the Yellow River?
500
a system of government in which nobles own and ruled over the land, but owed support and military service to the king
What is feudalism?
500
a Sumerian writing system that others built upon
What is cuneiform?
500
in ancient Egypt, most people belonged to this social class
What is the peasant class?
500
this group migrated from the north and intermarried with the people of the Indus River Valley
Who are the Aryans?
500
yellow, windblown soil
What is loess?