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Geography 100
The Egyptian civilization grew up around this river.
What is the Nile River?
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Geography 200
The name of this area in the Fertile Crescent means
“between the rivers”
What is Mesopotamia?
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Geography 300
These two rivers form the backbone of the Fertile
Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
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Geography 400
The first Indian civilizations grew up
around this river.
What is the Indus River?
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Geography 500
The first Chinese civilizations emerged on
this river
What is the Huang He River?
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Mesopotamia 100
This building was the most prominent in any
Mesopotamian city.
What is a ziggurat?
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Mesopotamia 200
This invention made it easier for traders to travel and take cargo over a long
distance.
What is the wheel?
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Mesopotamia 300
These people were at the bottom of the
Mesopotamian social hierarchy.
Who are slaves?
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Mesopotamia 400
This king is best known for enforcing one of the first
written law codes in history.
Who is Hammurabi?
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Mesopotamia 500
Mesopotamians had this kind of government, in
which the religious authority is also the
government authority.
What is theocracy?
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Egypt 100
These buildings were intended to be eternal
tombs for dead pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
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Egypt 200
This characteristic of the Nile is why Upper Egypt is
in the south.
What is flowing south to north?
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Egypt 300
What is a delta?
This geographic feature, a deposit of silt at the
mouth of a river, is named after a Greek letter
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Egypt 400
This period of ancient Egyptian history is also called the Pyramid Age.
What is the Old Kingdom?
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Egypt 500
These people invaded and conquered Egypt using their superior military
technology.
Who are the Hyksos?
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Indus 100
This is the religion of the Indus.
What is polytheism?
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Indus 200
This was unique among the RVC and was not
reproduced until Rome and then the 18th Century.
What is indoor plumbing?
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Indus 300
In order to make things more organized people in
the Indus did this.
What are planned cities?
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Indus 400
This is why the Indus RVC finally fell.
What is unknown?
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Indus 500
These were the two main cities along the Indus.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro ?
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Huang He 100
This is the belief that gods give the king the authority to rule over the Chinese
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
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Huang He 200
This is the first dynasty in China.
Who are the Shang?
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Huang He 300
This rich fertile soil had a yellow color to it.
What is loess?
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Huang He 400
This dynasty introduced the concept of the Mandate
of Heaven.
Who are the Zhou?
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Huang He 500
This was the nickname given to the Huang He
river.
What is China’s Sorrow?