Mesopotamia
Hammurabi's Code was developed in this ancient Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Babylon (or Mesopotamia)?
Ancient Egyptian civilization developed along the banks of this major African river.
What is the Nile River
India is often called by this geographic term because it is a large landmass that is smaller than a full continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Ancient Chinese civilization first developed along the banks of this river, also known as the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He River?
This sacred text is the holy book of Judaism and contains its early laws and history.
What is the Torah?
Hammurabi's Code is historically famous because it was one of the earliest systems of laws to be written down in this manner.
What is public (written down for everyone to see)?
This political title was given to the absolute monarch and divine ruler of ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh?
Historians know less about the Indus Valley than ancient Egypt because archaeologists lack this key translation tool
What is a "Rosetta Stone" (or deciphered written language/script)?
What is the Huang He River?
What is the Shang Dynasty?
These legal and ethical rules of conduct served as behavioral guidelines in Judaism.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Under Hammurabi’s legal code, if a son hit his father, this was his physical punishment.
What is having his hand cut off?
EXTRA POINTS
A triangular area of rich land located at the mouth of a river, such as where the Nile meets the Mediterranean, is known as this.
What is a delta?
Archeological finds showing grid layouts and advanced urban drainage systems in Harappa prove they had high levels of this
What is urban planning (or infrastructure/drainage systems)?
One major enduring cultural achievement developed during the Shang Dynasty was this system.
what is a writing system
Unlike Hammurabi's Code, the Ten Commandments emphasized moral and ethical rules of conduct given by this single deity.
Who is God (Yahweh)?
According to Hammurabi's rules, stealing property from a temple resulted in this severe penalty.
What is put to death (execution)?
Egyptian scribes made writing material using this reed plant that grew naturally along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
The ancient Indus River Valley civilization was located in the modern-day countries of India and this neighbor.
What is Pakistan?
A line of rulers who all belong to the same family is known by this term.
What is a dynasty
Judaism was founded and originally practiced by this group of people in the Middle East
Judaism was founded and originally practiced by this group of people in the Middle East
The principle "If a man has broken another man's bone, they shall break his bone" illustrates this legal concept in Hammurabi's Code.
What is retaliatory justice (or "an eye for an eye")?
The high social standing of priests in ancient Egypt indicated the high importance of this in Egyptian daily life.
What is religion?
These two major twin cities are the best-known urban settlements discovered in the Indus Valley.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
Due to physical barriers isolating China from other early cultures, the Chinese developed this belief in their own cultural superiority.
What is ethnocentrism?
The spread of Jewish communities outside their original homeland across the world is an example of this phenomenon.
What is cultural diffusion (or diaspora)?