Mesopotamia
What is the modern day location of this civilization?
Iraq
What is the location of this civilization?
Northern Africa/Egypt
What is the location of this ancient civilization?
India/Pakistan/Asia
What is the modern day location of this ancient civilization?
China
What is the name of the weather pattern that brings rain and flooding to Pakistan and India?
The monsoon
What rivers are located here?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What attracted people to this civilization?
The Nile River flooded predictably; fertile soil
Why do we know so little about this civilization?
What is the Chinese name of the Yellow River?
Huang He River
What ancient civilizations built ziggurats?
Mesopotamia
What attracted people to this civilization?
Fertile Soil
What type of religion did the Egyptians practice (one with many gods)?
Polytheism
What technological feature/public works is the Indus River Valley civilization known for?
Sewers, planned cities, bath houses
What geographic feature(s) create a natural barrier to the West in this civilization
Desert, mountains
Name the two cities in India that had urban planning.
Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
What was the first written system of laws in the history of western civilizations?
The Code of Hammurabi
What was the Egyptian ruler called?
A pharaoh
What is the name of the mountain range that is the source of the Indus River?
The Himalayas
Why didn't China trade with the West initially?
Natural barriers; they also had many natural resources
What was the name of the Sumerian writing system?
Cuneiform
What was the name of the first civilization to appear in Mesopotamia?
Sumer
What was the bottom class on the Egyptian social pyramid?
Slaves
What most likely led to the decline of the Indus River Civilization?
Earthquakes, flooding
The Shang Dynasty
What was the name of the Egyptian religious writing system?
Hieroglyphics