Egypt
What are Egyptians mainly known for building?
Pyramids
What is Assyrias capital
Nineveh
Who was the first Persian king
Cyrus
Who was China’s most influential scholar
Confucius
What are the two main rivers that flow near the Fertile Crescent
The Tigris and Euphrates
What is mummification?
A process of embalming and Drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
Who was one of the last mighty king
Ashurbanipal
Where was the royal road located
From Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
What form of governance did Shi Huagdi establish
Autocracy
Who were the first people to arrive in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
We’re most Egyptians polytheistic or monotheistic?
Polytheistic
What part of mesopatamia did Assyrians come from
The northern part
How long was the royal road
1,677 miles
Where is the Great Wall of China location
From the Yellow Sea to the Gobi dessert
What type of weather did Mesopotamia experience
Unpredictable floods/dry hot weather
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds?
Hieroglyphics
Assyrians are well known for their military? True or false
True
Who taught that there were two spiritual armies for good and evil
Zoroaster
What was China’s first dynasty?
Xia
True or false
The Sumerians were one of the first to create city-states
True
Why was the Nile river important to Egyptians
It provided them with many resources like transportation, fertile soil, and water.
What is a reason for Assyrians to have a strong army
From invasions
What was the governor that Darius installed called?
Satrap
What was China’s religious beliefs
That the family spirits had the power to bring good or bad
What was the first system of writing called?
Cuneiform