Early Civilizations
A collection of story that people use to explain natural events.
What is mythology?
A secondhand, or indirect account of an event. For example; someone else's book about an event.
What is a secondary source?
The ________________ River and the ___________ Sea both have this color due to the blowing sands of the Gobi Desert.
What is Yellow?
The "Mother" River in India.
What is the Ganges?
Two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
The mountain where the gods lived in greek mythology.
What is Mt. Olympus?
Events that happened before the invention of writing.
What is prehistory?
Connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
What is the Silk Road?
The given name of the first Buddha?
What is Siddhartha?
A formal writing system that that uses written characters and symbols to represent words or phrases. (Think Egypt)
What is hieroglyphics?
A city that acts like a nation or country.
What is a city-state?
This prefix means "earth".
What is geo?
A barrier made of walls across China's northern frontier
What is The Great Wall?
In the Caste system, this group of people were given degrading tasks like trash collectors and were not treated well.
Who are the Untouchables?
the longest river in the world that flows from south to north in northeastern Africa through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The home of the first democracy. I want the name of the Greek City-State.
What is Athens?
The oldest known system of writing began in Mesopotamia. What was this form of writing called?
What is cuneiform?
A valuable cloth, spun by caterpillars
What is Silk?
Tallest mountain range in the world that forms a natural barrier around India.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
A geographic area controlled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
A huge mud-brick temple built in ancient Sumer.
What is a ziggurat?
The opposing forces in Daoism/Taoism?
What is the Yin and Yang?
A person's life duty in Hinduism.
What is Dharma?