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100
The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt has the head of a man and the body of a ______.
What is a lion?
100
Name given to small tribes of hunter/gatherer humans who roamed in search of food and shelter
What are nomads?
100
Process of piping water to crops
What is irrigation?
100
Name of one flammable thing invented by the Chinese
What is gunpowder or fireworks?
100
The food source supplied by rivers to ancient peoples even if there were no crops
What are fish?
200
The river on whose banks ancient Egypt held rule for more than 3000 years
What is the Nile River?
200
First known fossils of prehistoric people that were named for the Neander Valley in Germany
What are Neanderthals?
200
Type of writing Sumerians scratched on clay tablets to keep up with grain and cattle sales
What is cuneiform?
200
Name given to a ruling Chinese family who ruled for many years until another family overthrew them
What is a dynasty?
200
River important to ancient Egypt
What is the Nile?
300
Name given to Egyptian rulers who were believed to be gods and who would be buried with treasures for the afterlife
What is a pharaoh?
300
More common name for the Paleolithic Era
What is the Stone Age?
300
Region in the Middle East considered the birthplace of civilization
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
The way the Indus planned and laid out their cities
What is a grid pattern?
300
River in ancient India/Pakistan where the largest great river civilization grew
What is the Indus?
400
Main form of ancient Egyptian writing that was made up of a series of pictures
What is hieroglyphs?
400
Surfaces that showed early paintings in Europe and Australia
What are rocks and caves?
400
A code of law consisting of 282 rules and decisions--thought to be the most complete and influential document of the ancient world
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Two mathematical inventions of the Indus that helped them become successful traders
What are standard weights/measurements and the decimal system?
400
River important to early Chinese human development
What is the Yellow or Huang He River?
500
Plant found by rivers in Egypt that was beaten into pulp for papermaking
What is papyrus?
500
The use of this made it possible for early humans to move to colder area about 790,000 year ago
What is fire?
500
Name given to the special temples where Sumerians held rituals and animal sacrifices
What is a ziggurat?
500
More commonly used name for the Huang He River in China
What is the Yellow River?
500
Two rivers on each side of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?