Mesopotamia
Name of the two rivers that frame Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
River that was based around Ancient Egypt Civilization
What is the Nile?
Desert that protects Indus River Valley civilizations from invaders
What is the Thar Desert?
In Chinese culture, this is who the person's chief loyalty is to
What is family?
Line of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
A line of rulers that come from the same family
What is a dynasty?
Name of the Egyptian rulers, seen as Gods
What is a pharaoh?
What the artifacts from Indus River Valley tell us about their society
Multiple responses (Mr. T discretion)
The group that justified the Mandate of Heaven
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Curved region in Southwest Asia with rich land for farming
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Who are priests?
Type of writing that was used in ancient Egypt
What is hieroglyphics?
Biggest environmental challenge that Indus River Valley civilizations faced
What is flooding of the Indus River?
The two rivers that formed the valley where Ancient China was created
Name of the yellowish silt found in the Yellow River that was fertile soil for farming
What is loess?
Ruler who created a code of 282 laws that went by the principle of "an eye for an eye"
Who is Hammurabi?
Main reason Ancient Egypt did not have many invaders
What is the desert?
Reason(s) why Indus River Valley civilization may have ended
Multiple responses
Multiple Responses
City and the surrounding land it controlled, operated as an independent country
What is a city-state?
Name of the two empires that took charge after the Sumerians
What is the Akkadian and Babylonian Empire?
Surface that Egyptian writings were made on
What is papyrus?
What does the precise grid system of cities in Indus River Valley say about their culture?
They had uniformity in planning and construction
Name of the first two Chinese dynasties
What is Xia and Shang?
Seasonal winds that occurred in the Indus Valley, controlled the precipitation