Ancient Egypt
This river is shaped like the lotus flower so often seen in ancient Egyptian art.
This is ancient Egyptian form of writing using pictures.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is a rainy period of time that causes flooding and leads to fresh land.
What is Monsoon Season?
The rivers where the Indus Civilization settled along. Provided them with resources, fertile land due to irrigation, trade, & transportation.
What are the Indus and Ganges Rivers?
A polytheistic religion that started in India. There is no single founder of the religion. Their beliefs are a combination of the beliefs of the early Indus Valley peoples and the Aryans.
What is Hinduism?
This kingdom Egypt became an empire - a group of nations or people ruled by one single leader.
What is the New Kingdom?
A period in history where members of the same family govern or rule.
What is a dynasty?
Location in South Asia - now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It is separated from the rest of Asia by Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains, and the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra Rivers.
What is the Harappan Civilization?
The first language of Ancient India. It allowed them to keep records.
What is Sanskrit?
By obeying one's dharma, a person acquires merit for the next life.
What is Hinduism?
A 12 month calendar and 365 days, doctors learned about the human body, identified 5 planets in our solar system without the use of a telescope, created fractions that they used with whole numbers to add, subtract, and divide.
What are Egyptian Achievements?
A process that preserves the bones and soft tissues of a body after death.
What is mummification?
During this empire, art, literature, education, and architecture flourished.
What is the Gupta Empire?
The social hierarchy of India created by the Aryans that divided Indian society into groups based on a person’s birth, wealth, or occupation. There was NO moving between castes during that lifetime.
What is the Caste System?
This is the moral principle of nonviolence; Hindus believe that all things are aspects of brahman, therefore they should be respected,
What is Ahimsa?
They were head of the bureaucracy - a system of offices and officials that handle the business of government.
Who were the Viziers?
An ancient Egyptian stone tablet that helped modern people decipher hieroglyphics.
What is Rosetta Stone?
India is considered this because is not large enough to be considered a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
A NOMADIC GROUP THAT INVADED India and took control. They established Hinduism and the caste system in India with their control.
Who are the Aryans?
Their founder was Siddartha Gautama, an Indian prince who sought to eliminate suffering and devoted his life to achieving nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
Egypt’s economy was based on this.
What is agriculture?
This is a plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
This system helped to organize civil service workers, a strong army, and even a group of spies. In 270 BC Asoka took power. He supported the ideals of Buddhism and spread the message of tolerance.
What is a bureaucracy?
A time period of prosperity (wealth), peace, and progress (expansion and growth) during the Gupta Empire. It had advancements in arts, science, & literature
What is the Golden Age?
This religion believes in NO GODS.
What is Buddhism?