Mesopotamia
These two rivers were vital to Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This river was essential to Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This river is associated with the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.
What is the Indus River?
This river, often called "China's Sorrow," was crucial to Chinese civilization.
What is the Yellow River (or Huang He)?
This revolution marked the shift from hunting and gathering to farming and permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Revolution (or Agricultural Revolution)?
This famous code of laws was created by a Babylonian king.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
These massive structures were built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
These two major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization were discovered in the 1920s.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?
This massive structure was built to protect China from nomadic invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
These water management systems were crucial for early river valley civilizations.
What are irrigation systems?
These stepped pyramid temples were built to worship the gods in Mesopotamia.
What are Ziggurats?
This system of writing used pictures to represent words or sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
This social hierarchy system developed in ancient India and still impacts society today.
What is the caste system?
These were used for divination and are the earliest known Chinese writing.
What are oracle bones?
This belief in multiple gods was common in early civilizations.
What is polytheism?
This biblical figure, considered the father of monotheism, came from Ur in Mesopotamia.
Who is Abraham?
This pharaoh is famous for his golden death mask and well-preserved tomb.
Who is King Tutankhamun (or King Tut)?
These seasonal winds brought heavy rains to the Indus Valley, affecting agriculture.
What are monsoons?
This concept justified a ruler's right to govern based on their virtue and heavenly approval.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This process involves the blending of different cultures through migration and trade.
What is cultural diffusion?
This writing system, using wedge-shaped marks, was developed in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This stone, inscribed with the same text in three scripts, helped decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This group invaded and influenced the Indus Valley Civilization around 1500 BCE.
Who are the Aryans?
This dynasty, led by Qin Shi Huang, unified China and standardized writing and currency.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
These early writing systems developed independently in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica.
What are the four original writing systems?