What did the majority of ancient Egyptians work as?
What are farmers?
100
People who domesticated animals for food and clothing and followed regular migratory routes to provide food for their animals.
Who were the pastoral nomads?
100
A seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia that brings warm, moist air during the summer and cold, dry air with heavy rainfall in the winter.
What is a monsoon?
100
The belief that power is justified through the appointment from God
What is Mandate of Heaven?
100
The name Mesoamerica is used to discuss the areas of___?
What is Mexico and Central America?
200
What are pyramids?
burial tombs for mummified bodies of pharaohs
200
Rich soil to grow wheat, barley, and peas in the valley resulted from:
a. proximity to the Arabian Sea
b. the annual flooding of the Indus River
c. a sophisticated irrigation system
What is (b) The annual flooding of the Indus River
200
Not much trade occurred outside China because of these...
What are natural barriers?
200
The art work by the Olmec Civilization believed to represent their gods or rulers:
What are the Stone Heads?
300
What natural barriers protected Egypt?
What are the deserts, Red Sea, Nile river, and Mediterranean Sea
300
Group of people who lived along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; became great sea traders and developed an alphabet from which our alphabet derived.
Who were the Phoenicians?
300
The highest mountains in the world, found in the far north of India.
What are the Himilaya Mountains?
300
The Chinese prayed to these because they thought they could bring them luck or disaster.
What are ancestors?
300
Name of city which was known as "Place of the Gods"
What is Teotihuacan>
400
The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who was King Menes?
400
The name of the contract the Jews believed that God had made with them
What is a covenant?
400
Indo-European written language that developed in the Indus Valley around 1000 BC
What is Sanskrit?
400
Animal bones where priests would scratch questions to the gods for the people, then heat them til they cracked, to decipher the "answers"
What are oracle bones?
400
Another name for the "rubber people" who grew rubber trees along the coast:
a. Olmec
b. zapotec
c. Chavin
d. Inca
What is the Olmec people?
500
Used to store organs of mummies
What are canopic jars?
500
Refers to a particular group of people who spoke a language derived from a single parent tongue, including Greek, Latin, Persian, and Germanic languages.
Who were the Indo-Europeans?
500
The Indus river Cities were very organized...laid out like a grid. This suggests the cities had what?
What is a strong central government?
500
A major tool of war for the Chinese.
What is the chariot?
500
Teotihuacan was a busy trade center known for objects made of...iron, bronze, obsidian, or silver.