Egypt
Mesopotamia
China
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100

The fertile crescent 

What is the land that is known for its richness and curved shape?

100

The Tigris and Euphrates 

What were the two rivers that flooded Mesopotamia at least once a year called?

100

The family 

What was central to chinas society?

100

Cultural Diffusion 

What is the process of a new idea or product spread from one religion to the next?

100

Minoans 

Who were the group of people that dominated trade in the Mediterranean?

200

The Nile 

What was the major river in Egypt?

200

The Sumerians 

Who were the ancient people in Mesopotamia? 

200

Mountains and deserts 

What dominates about 2/3rds of chinas land mass?

200

migrations 

what is movements of people from one region to the next?

200

Torah 

What were the first five books of the Hebrew Bible? 

300

Pyramids 

What were Prism shaped tomb structures?

300

Mountains, and Flat barren plains

What were landforms in Mesopotamia?

300

Feudalism 

What Government system did the Zhou dynasty use?

300

castes

What is a social system by skin color/wealth?

300

Monotheism 

What is the practice of praying to one god?

400

Desert 

What is most of the land in Egypt made from?

400

Cities 

What was first found here?

400

Oracle Bones 

What did the earliest evidence of Chinese writing come from?

400

Karma

What is a souls good or bad deeds, what goes around comes around?

400

Polytheism 

What is the practice of praying to many gods?

500

Wheat flax and papyrus 

What were the most important crops? 

500

Asia

What continent was Mesopotamia found on?

500

The nobles kids could write, peasants children could not 

What determined if children could write?

500

Nirvanna 

What is the Buddhist release from selfishness or pain?

500

Silt

What is a thick rich bed of mud?