Mesopotamia
What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What river was essential to life in Ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What river was the Indus Valley Civilization centered around?
What is the Indus River?
What river was the Shang Dynasty located near?
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
Which civilization was one of the earliest to grow cotton?
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
What is the name of the writing system invented by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia?
What is cuneiform?
What is the name of the preserved bodies created by Ancient Egyptians for the afterlife?
What are mummies?
What were the two major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization?
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
**2X POINTS** What material did the Shang Dynasty famously use to make weapons and tools?
What is bronze?
Which kingdom of Egypt is famous for building the pyramids?
What is the Old Kingdom?
What was the name of the famous Mesopotamian king who created one of the world’s first written law codes?
Who was Hammurabi?
**2X POINTS** What was the writing system used by Ancient Egyptians that included symbols and pictures?
What are hieroglyphics?
What advanced feature did Indus cities have that showed their skill in urban planning?
What are grid-pattern streets and advanced drainage systems?
What did Shang kings use to communicate with the gods and tell the future?
What are oracle bones?
**3X POINTS** Who was the young Egyptian pharaoh, known for his golden burial mask, who became famous after his tomb was discovered nearly intact?
Who was King Tutankhamun?
**2X POINTS** What was the primary purpose of a ziggurat in a Mesopotamian city?
What is a temple for religious worship?
What was the purpose of the pyramids in Ancient Egypt?
What is to serve as tombs for pharaohs?
**2X POINTS** What material did the people of the Indus Valley use to build most of their buildings?
What are standardized mud bricks (same size)?
What kind of government did the Shang Dynasty have?
What is a monarchy ruled by kings?
Which ancient civilization practiced ancestor worship, believing that their deceased relatives could influence their lives and fortunes?
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Why is Mesopotamia often called the “Cradle of Civilization”?
What is because it was the site of the first known cities, writing, laws, and organized governments?
How did the Nile's annual flooding help Egyptian civilization thrive?
What is it left behind fertile soil for farming, which supported agriculture and population growth?
What large public structure found in Mohenjo-Daro suggests that religion or ritual bathing may have been important to the Indus people?
What is the Great Bath?
How did the Zhou explain why they took over the Shang Dynasty, and what idea did they use to support it?
What is they said the Shang lost the Mandate of Heaven, and the Zhou got it because they were good and fair rulers?
**2X POINTS** What major event marked the shift from hunter-gatherer societies to farming and the domestication of animals?
What is the Agricultural Revolution?