Fertile Crescent
supply water to crops
What is irrigate?
A group of rocky rapids
What are cataracts?
Animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters to tell the future
What are oracle bones?
A city-state
What is Polis?
The world's longest river.
What is the Nile River?
An independent state that includes a city and surrounding territories
What is a city-state?
A ruling family
What is a Dynasty?
The highest force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule is called
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The art and practice of government
What is politics?
A land area almost surrounded by water
What is a peninsula?
A trading system which people exchange goods directly without using money
What is to barter?
The special process of body preservation?
What is mummification?
What is ancestor worship?
A hereditary class of rulers, rule by the best people.
What is aristocracy?
This country is surrounded by rugged mountains and vast deserts.
What is China?
A set of harsh laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
The buying and selling of goods and services is called?
What is commerce?
The devotion of children to their parents is called...
What is filial piety?
People who paid rent, ether in money or crops, to grow crops on another person's land
What is a tenant farmer?
This river had an area of cataracts or group of rocky rapids which made it hard to travel by boat
What is the Nile River?
The spreading of cultural traits from one region to another
What is cultural diffusion?
The dependence by each country or group on the other.
What is interdependence?
The largest public works project in history
What is the Great Wall?
Rule by the people
What is democracy?
Mesopotamia lies between these 2 rivers.
What is the Euphrates and Tigris?