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Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus Valley
China
Mixed Bag
100

This is a method for trading goods and services without money.

What is bartering?

100
This is a method for preserving bodies which involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
What is mummification?
100

The division of society into groups in the Indus River Valley.

What is the caste system?

100

This is a man-made barrier across northern China.

What is the Great Wall?

100

This allowed historians to translate hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

200

This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.

What is "The land between two rivers?"

200

Egypt was a polytheistic society--that is, they worshiped multiple gods. What is another term for gods or goddesses?

What are deities?

200

This is the largest religion in India today.

What is Hinduism?

200

A series of rulers from one family.

What is a dynasty?

200

This Mesopotamian ruler created the first written set of laws.

Who is Hammurabi?

300
This is made possible by the production of a surplus of food.
What is specialization?
300
These Egyptian god-kings were thought to be almost as splendid and powerful as the gods of the heavens.
What are pharaohs?
300

The sacred literature of Hinduism, which left a picture of Aryan life. 

What is the Vedas?

300

A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted use of lands that legally belong to the king.

What is feudalism?

300

This is the area where a river empties into a larger body of water, creating a triangle-shape?

What is a delta?

400
Sumerian scribes invented this system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
This writing surface was invented by the Egyptians to replace stone and clay tablets.
What is papyrus?
400

This is the mountain range in northern India, which separates it from the rest of Asia.

What are the Himalayas?

400

This is a network of trade routes that connected Europe to Asia.

What is the Silk Road?

400

The good or bad deeds which follow from one reincarnation to another.

What is karma?

500
A pyramid-shaped monument found in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This is a government which is based on religious authority.
What is a theocracy?
500

These are seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.

What is a monsoon?

500

One of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese to communicate with the gods.

What is an oracle bone?

500

The major change in human life caused by the beginning of farming--that is, by people's shift from food gathering to food producing.

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

(Or Neolithic Revolution)