Mesopotamia
What were the 2 rivers that form the Fertile Crescent?
The Tigris and Euphrates River.
What was the religion of Egypt?
What were the 3 main rivers of India?
The Indus River, Ganges River, Brahmaputra River
What landforms acted like a wall around Ancient China?
Mountains and the Gobi Desert.
What separated city-states?
Mountains and seas.
What is a large, step shaped temple?
What were large tombs for the pharaohs called?
Pyramids.
What system did the cities Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro use?
The grid pattern.
What did the polytheists of Ancient China use?
Oracle bones.
What did the people of Ancient Greece do to honor their gods?
They honored the gods through ceremonies, festivals, and the Olympics.
How old is the epic of Gilgamesh?
4,000 years old.
What did Amenhotep lV develop?
Monotheism.
What were Aryan tribes led by?
A raja.
What did Han Wudi develop?
Civil service exams
What was the role of men in drama?
To be all the characters even if there was a female character.
Who made the first empire of Mesopotamia?
Sargon.
What did Hatshepsut encourage?
Trade with surrounding people.
Who encouraged trade with China, Southeast Asia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt?
Gupta kings.
What road connected China to Europe?
The Silk Road.
What was the Spartan currency?
Iron bars.
Where did Mesopotamia trade?
West to Egypt and east to India.
What right did Egyptian women gain?
Divorce.
Who were the Untouchables?
They were lowest and some considered them outside of society.
What would aristocrats own and pass down to their sons?
Land.
Who were the helots?