Hammurabi and the Fertile Crescent
What ruler was famous for a uniform code of laws that unified his empire?
What is Hammurabi?
Which ruler was considered to be both a king and a god?
What is a pharaoh?
What is a series of rulers that come from a single family?
What are dynasties?
Why is so little known about the Indus Valley civilization<
What is written language has not yet been cdeciphered?
Which of the following distinguished the cities of the Indus Valley?
Cities were planned and have their own plumbing and sewage systems.
Which early civilization had the first carefully planned cities with sophisticated plumbing?
What is Harrapan?
In which form of Egyptian writing did pictures stand for both ideas and sounds?
What are hieroglyphics?
What was the longest ruling dynasty (790 years)?
What is the zhou dynasty?
How do we know that the people of the Indus Valley traded with the Sumerians?
What are seals were found in Sumer and the Sumerian items in the Indus Valley ?
What are some theories proposed by historians to explain the decline of the Harappan civilization?
What are natural disasters, environmental changes and possible invasions?
What is the region in Southwest Asia where the first civilization arose?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is the belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
What natural barrier lies between China and India?
What is the Himalaya mountains?
What did the Egyptian and Mesopotamian society have in common?
Women could pursue careers and own property
What are seasonal winds that are crucial to India's agriculture and are known for bringing heavy rains?
What are monsoons?
In which form of writing did pictures stand for ideas?
What is pictographs?
What was the main focus of the Pyramids of Egypt?
What are tombs?
How did the concept of the Mandate of Heaven influence Chinese rulers?
What assert that a ruler has the divine right to rule as long as he govern justly; it provided a justification for changing dynasties when rulers became unjust?
Why were Egyptian farmers more fortunate than the farmers of Mesopotamia?
The Nile flooded at regular intervals; the tigris and Euphrates flooded irregularly.
What ancient trade route facilitated the exchange of goods between China and the Mediterranean, passing through India and Central Asia?
What is the Silk Road?
What is a deposit of fertile , windblown soil called ?
What is a loess?
What significant geographical feature was essential to the agriculture success of ancient Egypt, providing fertile soil for farming?
What is the Nile River?
What is the term for the art of beautiful writing in China, which is an intergral part of the Chinese writing system?
What is calligraphy?
The social class system that came to be known as the Hindu caste system was establish in India by
What are the Aryans?
In the caste system of ancient India, what are the four main social classes into which people were divided?
What are varnas?