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100

The river most closely related to the Egyptian Civilization.

What is what is the Nile River?

100
These two rivers create the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The invisible line that circles the earth, runs east to west and separates north from south.
What is the equator?
100
This was a major technological achievement of the Indus Valley Civilization.
What is plumbing?
100
This river is name for the color of a canary.
What is the Yellow River?
200
Each year the people of the Nile River Valley could count on the river to fertilize the soil by doing this.
What is flooding?
200
Name the conquerer that created the code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
After looking at the GPS image of India, name the prominent geographic feature of the sub-continent.
What is peninsula?
200
Name the two rivers in the River Valley Civilization of India.
What are the Indus and the Ganges?
200
Chinese people did not used mud-dried brick to build their homes. Instead they use this material.
What is wood?
300
Look upon as a King and a god, this person ruled Egypt.
Who is the Pharaoh?
300
Name the three inventions of the Sumerians.
What are the wheel, the sail and the plow?
300
Name the direction of the geographic coordinate known as longitude.
What is longitude east to west or west to east?
300
Name two of the three countries linked to the Indus civilization.
What are India, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
300
The walls built by the Chinese people was used to control this.
What is flooding?
400
The Nile River run in this direction.
What is north or south to north?
400
The city-state of Sumer had three problems, the unpredictable flooding of the rivers, the lack of defensive barriers and the lack of wood, stone and metal. Name one of the things the Sumerians did to solve their problems.
What is dig ditches? What is build wall? What is trade?
400
Name the geographic coordinate that runs north to south and is positioned at 0 degrees
What is prime meridian?
400
Name the area of the Indus Valley city where the important buildings were located.
What is the citadel?
400
Around 1500 BC/BCE, the Shang Dynasty did this.
What is the first written records?
500
Name two of the four advancements noted in the text that Egyptians were famous for in the ancient world.
What are: 1. A system of writing numbers, 2. The twelve-month calendar, 3. Medicine and 4. Using pictures to stand for sounds
500
Each spring the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates is the result of water that comes from the melting of snow in this area.
What are the Turkish Mountains?
500
Name the position and invisible line that lies above or below the equator.
What is south of the equator Tropic of Capricorn? What is north of the equator Tropic of Cancer?
500
History tells us that the Indus Valley collapsed in this year.
What is 1500, BC/BCE
500
The Zhou Dynasty followed the Shang Dynasty and started the idea of this.
What is royalty?