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Is he serious?
100
places on the Nile impassable by boats due to rocks and currents.
What is a cataract?
100
This Egyptian god had green skin.
Who is Osiris?
100
The reason that the Zhou dynasty gave when they overthrew the Shang Dynasty.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
100
This is the other name for the Huang He river.
What is Yellow River?
100
These two rivers border Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
form of writing where pictures stood for words.
What is Hieroglyphics?
200
These were constructed on the plains of Giza.
What are pyramids?
200
This early civilization had plumbing in their houses.
What is Harappan?
200
a system of designing cities that emphasized straight lines and blocks.
What is grid?
200
this number is the basis for arithmetic and geometry in Sumerian mathematics.
What is 60?
300
system of writing in Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
300
This is the direction that the Nile flows.
What is North?
300
This is the region in Southwest Asia where an early civilization arose.
What is Fertile Crescent?
300
Name one of the two rivers found on the Indian subcontinent.
What is Ganges or Indus?
300
The Nile River is this long.
What is 4100 miles?
400
a horse drawn battle cart was called this.
What is a chariot?
400
Huge temple that is at the center of a Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
400
To able to read in China a person had to know this many different characters, "letters".
What is 1500?
400
this is what annual rains that fall on India are called.
What is monsoon?
400
This is the month when the Nile flooded.
What is the summer month of July?
500
He was the leader of the Babylonians who created a system of laws that he wrote down for everyone to see.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
land that forms at the mouth of a river from silt deposits
What is delta?
500
a leading theory about the decline of the civilizations on the Indus subcontinent.
What is an earthquake followed by flooding or drought?
500
In Chinese culture this gender is dominate.
What is men?
500
These are the people, or class, that ran the cities of Mesopotamia.
What are priests?