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Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
Pot Pouri I
Pot Pouri II
100
early civilization that established hieroglyphic writing system, had a basic agricultural system and polytheistic belief, and whose culture depended on the annual flooding of the Nile as the basis for a sustained economy
What is Ancient Egypt?
100
temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped
What are Ziggurats?
100
located in South Asia in an area known as a subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh); northern migrants may have made their way to this area through a pass in the Hindu Kush mountains; domesticated sheep and goats here; built many cities, largest include Kalibangan, Mohenjo-Daro, and Harappa; cities planned on a precise grid system; featured an area called a citadel with major buildings of city; seperate residential districts constructed of oven-baked bricks cut in standard form; religion may be linked to modern Hindu culture
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
100
the raising of crops and animals for human use
What is agriculture?
100
one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
What are Sphinx?
200
the longest river in the world, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt
What is the Nile?
200
belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
200
Landmass that includes the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
What is the Indian Subcontinent?
200
process of identifying the specific jobs that need to be done and designating the people who will perform them
What is job specialization?
200
a person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routes to provide a steady source of nourishment for those animals
What are pastoral nomads?
300
a series of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
300
two rivers that form the outside border of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
river in Pakistan that creates a fertile plain known as the Indus River Valley
What is the Indus River?
300
extra food creation that allows people to engage in activities besides farming
What is food surplus?
300
The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1027 B.C.E.). Ancestor worship, divination by means of oracle bones, and the use of bronze vessels for ritual purposes were major elements of Shang culture.
What is the Shang
400
an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
What are Hieroglyphics?
400
A collection of 282 harsh laws which were enforced under Hammurabi's Rule. One of the first examples of written law in the ancient civilizations.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
400
Ancient civilization that developed south of the Himalayan Mountain Range along the Indus and Ganges rivers; circa 2500 B.C.E.
What is Ancient India
400
Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets
What is cuneiform?
400
The highest mountains in the world, which stretch along northern India, separating it from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
500
A pharaoh, or king of Egypt, who lived about 1400 B.C. His reign was relatively unimportant, but the discovery of his unplundered tomb in the 1920s is numbered among the great archaeological discoveries of all time.
Who is Tutankhamen?
500
A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer
500
What was the name of the largest city in the Indus River Valley Civilization?
What is Mohenjo-Daro
500
Early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. They developed the religion Judaism.
What are Hebrews?
500
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
What is democracy?