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Geography
Potpourri
Egypt and Persia
China
India
100
These two rivers flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The Phoenicians' trading began because their civilization lay along this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
This road covered about half of the Persian Empire.
What is the Royal Road?
100
The Huang He River (Yellow River) deposits huge amounts of this type of soil along its banks.
What is loess?
100
The Harrappan Civilization was founded in this valley.
What is the Indus River Valley?
200
Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments while on this mountain.
What is Mt. Sinai?
200
The alphabet created by the Phoenicians was based on sounds, called this____________.
What is phonetic?
200
This chariot-riding group of invaders with iron weapons eventually made peace with Egypt and pledged to help each other fight off future invaders.
Who are the Hittites?
200
This dynasty was the first to leave written records in China.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
200
These invaders came to the Harappan civilization, bringing the caste system with them.
Who are the Aryans?
300
This empire built the Royal Road and had good coastlines for trade.
What is the Persian Empire?
300
This is the name of the wedge-shaped writing invented by the Phoenicians.
What is cuneiform?
300
Egyptians believed he was a god, thus making their government a theocracy.
What is the pharoah?
300
This is the pattern of one Chinese ruling family replacing another.
What is the dynastic cycle?
300
These seasonal winds dominate India's climate and determine the rainfall.
What is the monsoon?
400
The city of Mahenjo Daro kept things clean by installing this.
What is a sewage sytem?
400
These priests were the highest members of India's caste system.
What are Brahmins?
400
This group lost control of Egypt to the Assyrians.
Who are the Kushites?
400
This Chinese philosopher believed five basic relationships are needed to maintain social order.
Who was Confucius?
400
The city of Mohenjo-Daro was laid out in this pattern.
What is a grid system?
500
This natural barrier lies between India and China, essentially isolating them.
What are the Himalayas?
500
At first a member of the Persian ruling family's bodyguard, he is famous for his military genius and for his skill as a government administrator.
Who is Darius?
500
He was considered the most tolerant of Persian rulers.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
500
The Zhou Dynasty believed they had the right to rule from the gods, called this.
What is The Mandate of Heaven?
500
Siddhartha Gautama became known as "The Enlightened One," or this.
What is the Buddha?