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100
A massive stepped temple built by the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
100
The ruler of ancient Egypt.
What is the pharaoh?
100
The seasonal wind pattern that affects the rainfall in India.
What is a monsoon?
100
One of the two rivers important to ancient China.
What is the Yellow River or Yangtze River?
100
The name of the land area surrounding the Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris Rivers that is good for agriculture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The first empire in world history.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
200
The second in command to the pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
What is the vizier?
200
The ancient Hindu/Aryan writing system/language, still used in chants by Brahmin priests today.
What is Sanskrit?
200
The idea that Chinese rulers were chosen by gods to rule so that the universe remained in order.
What is the mandate of heaven?
200
A government that is thought to be divinely inspired.
What is a theocracy?
300
The writing system of the Sumerian civilization. Literally translates as "wedge-like."
What is cuneiform?
300
The type of paper that ancient Egyptians invented using reeds that grow along the banks of the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
300
The Hindu word for "duty" which refers to the specific responsibility of each social class.
What is dharma?
300
Considered the first Chinese teacher and philosopher.
Who is Confucius?
300
Every ancient civilization's geography was similar because all of them were built near this physical feature.
What is a river?
400
A small, independent kingdom with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
400
The pyramids show us that this was very important to ancient Egyptian religion.
What is an after-life?
400
This caste that performs jobs considered unclean or impure, such as cremating bodies.
What is the Untouchable caste?
400
The duty of the son or daughter in a Chinese family to take care of and work for the mother and father.
What is filial piety?
400
A religion that focuses on the belief in and worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
The oldest, most complete law code that set up a system of strict justice and set the precedent for modern moral law codes.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
The Egyptians invented this giant monument to act as a sundial/way to tell time.
What is an obelisk?
500
The goal of Hinduism.
What is moksha?
500
The Chinese writing system that is based off using a different symbol for each word rather than a phonetic alphabet.
What are pictographs?
500
A rulers right to rule being passed down within a family.
What is a dynasty?