Agriculture
These were constructed in Mesopotamia to control the unpredictable flooding and keep the fields and city safe.
What are levees and/or canals?
Mesopotamia is the land between these two rivers.
This early river valley civilization practiced ancestor worship.
What is China?
This is the title given to the ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh
The civilizations in this river valley built ziggurats as temples and homes for the gods.
What is Mesopotamia
People shifting from hunting and gathering in the Paleolithic era to agriculture was the first change made to move towards civilization and marked the beginning of...
What is the Neolithic Revolution/Neolithic Era?
Egypt is called the "Gift" of this river.
What is the Nile?
This civilization believed their ruler was a god.
What is Egypt?
This Babylonian King is credited for creating the first written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Many modern archeologists and historians believe that this structure was built by workers, not slaves as previously recorded by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
These geographic features were the most important element that lead to the development of agriculture because they would bring fertile soil to the land.
What are rivers?
All river valley civilizations had floods that would bring this type of fertile soil to the land.
What is silt?
The ancient Egyptians would remove the organs from a corpse and place them in these.
What are canopic jars?
This Egyptian united the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt, and created the first Egyptian dynasty around 3100 B.C.E.
Who is Menes?
This civilization was the first to use a complex in ground sewage and drainage system to keep its cities dry and clean.
What is Harrapan or Indus River Valley Civilization?
This beverage made from cereal grains was found in the tombs of workers in ancient Egypt.
What is beer?
This mountain range between India and China includes the world's tallest mountain, and helped to keep Chinese civilization isolated from the rest of the world.
What are the Himalayas?
This is the name of the social hierarchy in ancient India that had Brahmans (Priests) at the top and untouchables at the bottom.
What is the Caste System?
Who is Hatshepsut?
This River Valley Civilization is unique because there is no archeological evidence of large religious monuments or elaborate burial practices.
What is the Indus River Valley, or Harappan Civilization.
This civilization began to grow different crops during the winter and summer.
What is the Indus River Valley/Ancient India/Harappan
This Chinese river is known as Chinas Sorrow.
Yellow River/Huang He River
In early river valley civilizations, weather, natural disasters, and the selection of leaders was said to be the responsibility of...
Who are the gods?
According to the archeological evidence, this river valley civilization did not have an emperor, or centralized leader.
What is the Indus River Valley or Harappan Civilization.
Most families in this ancient civilization would construct a shrine to their ancestors.
What is China?