Mesopotamia
Was Mesopotamia centralized or decentralized
What is centralized?
The structure that the pharaohs were buried in when they died
What are pyramids?
Was India centralized, or decentralized
What is centralized?
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The wall that was hand built over many dynasties to protect them from Mongolia
What is the Great Wall of China?
The most traded item on the Silk road
What is silk?
Name one city-state in Mesopotamia
Some answers include: Babylon, Uruk, Ur, Kish, Nippur, and Sumer
The highest status on the social pyramid
What is a Pharaoh?
What type of clothing did they make in India
What is Cotton Clothing?
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Ancient China is famous for a few inventions. These include the compass, printing, gunpowder, and this material used for writing.
What is Chinese Paper?
The name of the routes that went through Europe, Asia, and Africa used for trading
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The pillars that the ancient Mesopotamians inscribed laws on
What is a stele?
This was used to how bring water from the Nile river to the farms and control the flow of water as well and stop floods
What is a Irrigation System?
What is Hinduism?
In Ancient China, this style of handwriting was considered a high art form, often created using a brush, ink, and rice paper.
What is Calligraphy?
Usable products that people trade based on needs and wants
What are goods?
The king who was the one to create Mesopotamia's first laws
Who was Hammurabi?
The process of getting a body ready for the afterlife once they die
What is mummification?
The highest status on the social pyramid
What is a king?
The name of the man is very famous for making all of the philosophies in China
What is Confucius?
People who buy and use goods and services
The writing language that they used in ancient Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
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This discovery found in 1799 had words in the languages of Demotic, Greek, and Hieroglyphics allowing scholars to understand ancient Egyptian writing
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is the ultimate goal of Hinduism
What is Moksha?
The peasants were valued much more than the merchants. Why? (Your answer must be complete and make sense)
They honored hard work and all the merchants did was trade. They didn't make anything or work hard. The peasants had to do all of the farming and work hard.
Raw materials such as sugar, livestock, gold, and silk used to manufacture finished goods
What are commodities?