It means "land between the rivers." This refers to the low plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
They developed an advanced civilization along the Nile River. The great pyramids at Giza, god-kings called pharaohs, mummification, and papyrus are associated with them. They developed a beautiful writing system based on picture symbols.
Who are the Egyptians?
100
The group of people who created the "caste system" in India.
Who are the Aryans?
100
Based on archaeological evidence, most scientists and historians believe that hominids originated on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
They were the most hated and feared of all the ancient peoples.
Who are the Assyrians?
200
Where the earliest civilizations developed.
What are river valleys?
200
Egyptian buildings whose main purpose was to function as tombs.
What are pyramids?
200
These two features distinguish the cities in the Indus Valley.
What are the grid system of streets and the plumbing and sewer systems?
200
The time period prior to 3500 B.C. and before people developed writing.
What is prehistory?
200
The Persian king that expanded the empire to its largest but could not conquer Greece.
Who is Darius?
300
The first to build cities and develop a system of writing called cuneiform. Civilization, history, and the Bronze Age began with them and they lived in Lower Mesopotamia.
Who are Sumerians?
300
Government in which the ruler was worshipped as a god or religious beliefs guide government.
What is a theocracy?
300
It united the people all of China, even if they spoke other languages.
What is the Chinese system of writing?
300
One of humanity's greatest achievements that allowed communication.
What is the development of language?
300
The ancient group who created the world's first true alphabet.
Who is the Phoenicians?
400
The belief in many gods; the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Chinese all believed this.
What is polytheism?
400
What the Egyptians believed in occurred after death, and is why they mummified the dead.
What is an afterlife?
400
The Chinese philosopher who founded Daoism.
Who is Laozi?
400
It ended the wandering lifestyle and led to the creation of civilizations.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
400
The Chinese believed that the gods gave Chinese Emperors the right to rule with this.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
500
Name at least two characteristics of civilizations.
What are farming, cities, writing, government, specialized labor, social classes, complex religions, and art & architecture?
500
A form of Egyptian writing that they wrote on papyrus.
What are hieroglyphics?
500
The reason why we know little about the Indus Valley civilization.
What is the undeciphered writing of the Indus Valley civilization?
500
Led to the ready supply of meat and animal products for early humans.
What is the result of the domestication of animals?
500
By 330 B.C., they had the largest empire in the ancient world. Some of their most famous kings were Cyrus II and Darius I.