Mesopotamia River Valley Civilization
These are the two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia allowing for fertile lands and transportation.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the river that flowed through Egypt allowing for fertile lands and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
This is the river that flowed through India allowing for fertile lands and transportation.
What is the Indus River?
These are the two rivers that flowed through China allowing for fertile lands and transportation.
What are the Yellow River, Huang He, and Yangzi River?
What are the two countries where the four river valley civilizations originated?
What are Africa and Asia?
Mesopotamia had very few natural barriers which resulted in Mesopotamia being constantly...
What is invaded?
Who built the pyramids of Ancient Egypt?
Who are the Egyptian citizens?
Social organization developed in Ancient India in which groups of people are divided into distinct social classes.
What is the Caste System?
These were believed and used to talk with the ancestors.
What are oracle bones?
What is a common characteristic for most of the Early River Valley languages?
What are pictures/symbols?
Sumerians worshiped their gods in temples known as _____.
What are ziggurats?
What was the purpose of pyramids in Ancient Egypt?
What is to bury pharaohs that have died?
Name the seasonal wind pattern that dominates India's climate and provides both beneficial rainfall but also major flooding and harmful winds.
What are monsoons?
In Chinese history, this is the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority. The idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This is spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
What is cultural diffusion?
Name 1 out of the 4 empires of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, or Assyria?
What is the name of the first type of paper?
*Hint: It shares the name of the plant it comes from*
What is Papyrus?
What did the Ancient India's manage to invent thousands of years before the Europeans?
What is plumbing?
Which of the social classes was the least revered in ancient Chinese society? Why was this?
Merchants because people viewed them as greedy as they sold other people's items for a profit, there was no talent involved with this in the eyes of the Ancient Chinese.
The ancient ruins of Harappa show their cities and roads were placed in what type of pattern that is used in most modern day larger cities.
What is a grid-like pattern?
The first written laws for people in the Mesopotamia region were produced by this Babylonian King. The dodes were known as being very harsh but did establish law and order.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Describe Egyptian religion and the basis of their deities.
Ancient Egyptian religion was polytheistic. Their gods and goddesses represented different aspects of nature and human life.
What type of government did the Indus River Valley have?
It is a mystery as to how the Indus cities were governed.
TRUE OR FALSE:
Shang Dynasty believed that all people were equal and there was no difference between the rich and poor.
FALSE: Shang China was very separated class wise and left little room for social mobility.
Name 1 out of the 8 characteristics of a civilization.
What is ...
Cities Within The Civilization
Government & Laws
Writing
Division Of Labor
Social Classes
Public Buildings/Structures
Religion
Art