Ancient River Civilizations
Review GameBy: Peter Mollenhauer
What was Mesopotamia’s greatest challenge?
Foreign Invaders
What was the name for the classes of people in India?
The Caste System
What was the name for when a dynasty had approval from the
gods to rule?
The Mandate of Heaven
What are the two rivers that ancient Indian river civilizations
lived on?
The Indus and the Ganges Rivers.
What are two well known documents from ancient
Mesopotamia?
The Code of Hammurabi and the Epic of Gilgamesh
Who were viewed as a gods in
ancient Egypt?
The Pharaohs
What was the type of political structure in
ancient India?
A Theocracy
What were some of the innovations of ancient
Egypt?
The pyramids, alphabet and writing, and calendars.
What was the status of women in early Mesopotamia?
The women were nearly equal to men.
What was the name for the area surrounding Mesopotamia?
The Fertile Crescent
What were China’s solutions to floods and
invaders?
Build levees and walls.
Does ancient India have a form of
writing?Yes it is pictographic
with 270 characters, but it is yet to be deciphered.
What was one of China’s industries that was prized across
the known world?
China’s silk industry.
What river did people congregate most on in ancient China?
The Yangtze (Yellow River)
What were innovations of ancient India?
Sewage lines, canals, irrigation.
What is the name of the Sea to the West of the Indus River
Civilization?
The Arabian Sea
What religion originated in India but did not catch on as much as
in other countries?
Buddhism
What was the most important value to the
Chinese?
Family
What was one of the most important parts to all four civilization’s economies?
Agriculture
What is the name for the preservation of the Egyptian
dead?
Mummification
Work Cited• http://asiasociety.org/countries/traditions/jati-caste-system-india
• http://china.mrdonn.org/mandateofheaven.html
• http://ab.mec.edu/departments/techinteg/resources/students/rivers/indus.html
• http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/epic-of-gilgamesh-faq.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh
• http://famouswonders.com/great-pyramids-of-giza/
• http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/2007/12/genuine-article/morelli-text/1
• http://mrplasko-worldhistory.wikispaces.com/31.How+is+the+specialization+of+labor+in+the+Harappan+Civilization+similar+to+that+of+the+modern+United+States%3F+How+is+it+Different%3F
• http://religions.iloveindia.com/buddhism.html
• http://historylink101.net/egypt_1/rf-k-egyptian-mummy.htm