Mesopotamia was at the eastern end of an area known as the
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The Nile begins in the heart of Africa and courses northward for 4,000 miles. It is the longest river in the world. Before it empties into the Mediterranean, it splits into 2 branches. This spilt forms a triangular territory called ____________.
What is the Nile Delta?
100
Early civilization in India started in a valley with this river running through it.
What is the Indus River?
100
Of the great civilizations, Chinas was the last to come into full flower, why?
What is its isolation from emerging centers of culture elsewhere in the world?
100
What two major religions emerged from India?
What is hinduism and buddhism?
200
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Pyramids were built as part of a larger complex of buildings dedicated to _______________.
What is the dead or a city of the dead.
200
There were two major cities founded in early India. Name one of them
What is Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
200
What was the first flourishing Chinese civilization?
What is the Shang dynasty?
200
In Hinduism, what is the force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life?
What is karma?
300
The first kind of states in Mesopotamia were __________.
What are city-states?
300
During the Middle Kingdom, Egypt was invaded by the Hyksos who overwhelmed the Egyptians with this new military technology.
What is the horse drawn chariot?
300
Early Indian civilizations were replaced by a group of nomadic Indo-Europeans called _______________.
Who are the Aryans?
300
The Chinese believed they could communicate with supernatural forces to obtain help in worldly affairs. To do so, they used _______________.
What are oracle bones?
300
The Qin dynasty was founded by
Who was Qin Shihuangdi?
400
He was the leader of the Akkadians and he overran the Sumerian city-states and set up the first empire in world history.
Who is Sargon?
400
Women in Egypt were more equal to men than women in Mesopotamia. The first woman to become a pharoah in Egypt was
Who was Hatshepsut?
400
One of the important parts of a regional network of trade was called ___________________.
What is the Silk Road.
400
The Zhou believed that Heaven - which was an impersonal law of nature - kept order in the universe through the Zhou king. Thus, he ruled over all humanity by ___________.
What is the mandate of heaven?
400
He believed that if humans would act in harmony with the purposes of the universe then their own affairs would prospet.
Who was Confucius?
500
Sumerians invented the oldest writing system in the world which is called ______________.
What is cuneiform or "wedge-shaped"
500
What is the written language of Egypt?
What is hieroglyphics?
500
The first Indian empire to create large unified Indian states flourished under the reign of Asoka and was known as
What is the Mauryan Empire?
500
At the heart of the concept of family in China was the idea of ___________.
What is filial piety?
500
The ancient Chinese were responsible for 4 remarkable inventions that were crucial to the development of modern technology. What were they?
What were the magnetic compass, paper, printing and gunpowder?