Mesopotamia
This was the name of the writing system in Mesopotamia, usually engraved on stone tablets
What is cuneiform?
Egyptians settled near this major river that flows from south to north and empties into the Mediterranean sea.
What is the Nile?
This Indus geographically now makes up these modern day countries (3).
What is India, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
The name of the first family of Chinese rulers to leave written records.
What is the Shang dynasty.
Name one environmental challenge faced by the Sumerians? (Mesopotamia)
unpredictable flooding, NO natural barriers for protection, Limited natural resources
These are the two rivers of the fertile crescent that allowed for good farming.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
A series of rulers from a single family is known as this.
What is a dynasty?
What is the Indus and the Ganges?
This refers to the rise, decline and fall of Chinese dynasties.
What is the dynastic cycle?
The process which a new idea or product spread from one culture to another
Cultural Diffusion
The was replaced as it was more durable to make weapons and tools.
What is bronze?
They ruled as "gods" and to the people, many people believed they had a direct connection which allowed them to rule over Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
Worlds tallest mountain ranges that isolated much of the Indus but was also a protective barrier from invaders.
What are the Himalaya mountains?
This was the name given to the time frame in which the 7 kingdoms of China broke out into warfare, battling for supremacy.
What is the warring states period?
By 3200 BC the villages of Egypt were under the rule of two separate kingdoms Named? What eventually happened to them?
Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. They united into one kingdom
This is the term used to describe trading without using money.
What is bartering?
These were grand tombs built for some of the wealthiest pharaohs for the after life.
What is a pyramid?
Seasonal winds.
What are monsoons?
This was the belief the Chinese emperor where given the divine right to rule?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This group helped to bring the downfall of the Old kingdom of Egypt.
They Hyksos defeated Egypt
This was the name given to the temple in which the people worshiped. It was also used as a storage facility.
What is a ziggurat?
This is a government based on religious authority.
What is a theocracy?
These two architectural features made the Indus Valley advanced compared to other civilizations.
What is plumbing and sewer systems?
The two major rivers of ancient China?
Yang He and the "Yellow" River
2 things that all the early river valley civilizations have in common? ( There are 3 possible answers)
Flooding, forms of writing, live by rivers.
This man created a code of laws in ancient Babylonia. Hint: "Eye for an Eye and a tooth or a tooth."
Who is Hammurabi?
The Egyptian system of writing was called this.
What is hieroglyphics?
The two oldest city-states of the Indus.
What is Harrappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Yellow River
The reason historians have so little information on the indus River Valley Civilization.
Historians have not deciphered the written language that has been found. Scientists and historians do not know what the writings say.
The ancient Mesopotamians where this, meaning, they believed in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
Paper sheets made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
These reasons possibly ended the Indus River Valley civilizations. (3)
Earthquakes, floods, invaders.
A political system in which nobles or lords are granted the use of land theat legally belongs to the king. In return, the nobles owe loyalty and military service to the kin and protection to the poepl who live on their estates.
Fuedalism
This makes the Chinese system of writing so difficult to learn
Due to the enormous number of written characters to memorized - more than 10,000 characters.