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1-100 q

This river provided fertile soil, water, and means of transportation for the Egyptians.

1-100 a

What is the Nile River?

2-100 q

These two rivers allowed for farming in the desert like climate of MESOPOTAMIA.

2-100 a

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

3-100 q

• This river allowed for farming in the desert like climate of the Indus River Valley.

3-100 a

What is the Indus River?

4-100 q

OK..you get the pattern. This river allowed for farming to take place in Ancient China.

4-100 a

• What is the Huang He?

5-100 q

• Name the five major religions discussed in class.

5-100 a

What are Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam?

6-100 q

This is the name that Greeks called their city states.

6-100 a

What is a polis?

1-200 q

In order to preserve the pharaoh’s body, Egyptians used this well known process.

1-200 a

What is Mummification?

2-200 q

The belief in many gods/goddesses.

2-200 a

What is polytheism?

3-200 q

They are known as the being the world’s tallest mountain range. They also separated India from the continent of Asia.

3-200 a

What are the Himalayas?

4-200 q

This yellow soil made the land around the Huang He very fertile.

4-200 a

What is loess?

5-200 q

Name the sacred book of the following religions: Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam.

5-200 a

What are the Torah, Vedas, Holy Bible, and Quran?

6-200 q

A government in which the power is in the hands of a few people (normally the business class).

6-200 a

What is an oligarchy?

1-300 q

The ancient picture writing system of Egypt.

1-300 a

What are Hieroglyphics?

2-300 q

This structure was used as a place of worship in Mesopotamia.

2-300 a

What is a ziggurat?

3-300 q

• A seasonal wind that can bring rainy weather or hot, dry weather.

3-300 a

What is a monsoon?

4-300 q

These bones were used to predict the future in Ancient China.

4-300 a

What are Oracle Bones?

5-300 q

“There is only one God and Muhammad is his messenger” is the main belief of which of the five major religions.

5-300 a

What is Islam?

6-300 q

• A government in which voting power is in the hands of the people.

6-300 a

What is a democracy?

1-400 q

This plant was used to make paper. The plant and the paper have the same name.

1-400 a

What is papyrus?

2-400 q

This writing system was developed in Mesopotamia. It used wedges and symbols.

2-400 a

• What is cuneiform?

3-400 q

A social hierarchy with unchangeable social groups.

3-400 a

What is a caste system?

4-400 q

A beautiful style of handwriting.

4-400 a

What is calligraphy?

5-400 q

“To reach nirvana (peace) by ending suffering” is the main belief of which religion.

5-400 a

What is Buddhism?

6-400 q

A series of wars between Athens and Sparta .

6-400 a

What are the Peloponnesian Wars?

1-500 q

This tablet helped unlock the mystery of reading hieroglyphics.

1-500 a

What is the Rosetta Stone?

2-500 q

The first written set of laws in history to apply to an entire empire.

2-500 a

What is the Code of Hammurabi?

3-500 q

A wall painting.

3-500 a

What is a mural?

4-500 q

This structure was built to protect China’s northern border.

4-500 a

What is the Great Wall of China?

5-500 q

“Everything is connected to a powerful, invisible force” is the main belief of which of the major religions.

5-500 a

What is Hinduism?

6-500 q

This was a religious temple in the center of Athens. It was dedicated to Athena.

6-500 a

What is the Parthenon?