Ancient Mesopotamia
One of the most powerful of the Mesopotamian city states was a city-state called _______, located in the region of Sumer.
Ur
This type of king was buried in large geometric shapes?
Pharaohs
The Minoans carved out a large trade network around the Mediterranean and ruled from mighty palaces on an island called _______.
Crete
One of the oldest documented languages that dominated the region was ________.
sanskrit
This pattern of dynasties rising and falling - falling in and out of favor with the gods - became known as the
Dynastic cycle
The Fertile Crescent was named for its _____ shape.
C
The government is ruled by religious figures.
Theocracy
According to legend, the labyrinth was inhabited by a mythological beast that was half man and half bull. Its name was the _________.
Minotaur
With the Minoan cities falling into decline around 1100 BC the most powerful trading empire along the Mediterranean were the _________.
Phoenicians
Civilization in China developed along two river systems were the __________ and _____________.
Yangtze and Yellow
What rivers were located in the fertile river valley?
Tigris and Euphrates
This process consisted of removing the vital organs and wrapping the remains in linen cloths.
Mummification
Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a beautiful capital city known as __________.
Knossos
One such innovation was the _______ of the boat which is essentially a flat, bladed bottom where the ship meets the water.
keel
Shang had fallen out of favor with the gods and that Zhou rulers now possessed the _______________.
Mandate of Heaven
These structures were the center of religious, political and social life.
Ziggurat
The predictability of this rivers flooding meant that Egypt was free of the natural disasters that plagued other civilizations.
The Nile
Meaning people who lived predominantly on the sea
seafarers
The Phoenicians greatest contribution to the ancient world was their invention of the _______________.
phonetic alphabet
he first villages formed on the Indian Subcontinent in 2500 BC in the fertile river valley of the __________.
Indus River
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
What natural barriers provided protection from invaders for Ancient Egypt?
Eastern and Western deserts
Around the year 1500 BC, the Minoan civilization fell into sharp
Decline
The Phoenicians trade network was vast and they traded in many fine materials.
Olive wood and rich, cedar wood
Two major civilizations in the Indus Valley: Mohenjo-Daro and __________.
Harappa