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Mesopotamia
Egypt
China
Indus Valley
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100
2 rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Egyptian civilization flourished along this river.
What is the Nile?
100
China's earliest civilizations developed along this river.
What is the Yellow River?
100
Archeologists have found evidence and artifacts of this religion in Indus cities.
What is Hinduism?
100
Most early civilizations formed along this type of geographic feature.
What is a river?
200
These are the 2 nicknames for Mesopotamia covered in class.
What are the Fertile Crescent and the Cradle of Civilization?
200
An Ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
Nickname given to the Yellow River.
What is China's Sorrow?
200
Another name for the Indus Valley civilization that arose along Indus River. Characterized by sophisticated city panning.
What is the Harappan Civilization?
200
Term for belief in many Gods.
What is polytheism?
300
First form of writing known to man.
What is cuneiform?
300
The belief in this caused people to be buried with their possessions.
What is the afterlife?
300
A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the King.
What is feudalism?
300
Seasonal winds that dominated the climate of the Indus Valley?
What are monsoons?
300
Shared same culture, but had their own government and rulers. Functioned similarly as an independent country would today.
What is a city-state?
400
Tiered, pyramid shaped structure that was a Sumerian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Egyptian civilization created this writing surface.
What is papyrus?
400
Divine rule from Heaven for the Emperor of China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are modern countries located on this.
What is the Indian Subcontinent?
400
This brings together several people of previously independent city-states under the control of one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
A series of rulers, from a single family. Many Sumerian city-states came under the rule of this.
What is a dynasty?
500
A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure.
What is a theocracy?
500
Yellowish, fertile silt deposited by the Yellow River.
What are loess?
500
Early religious artifacts from this time period often depicted this major Hindu God.
Who is Shiva?
500
The college Ms. Mullman attended.
What is Washington University in St. Louis? Go Bears!