Ancient River Civilizations

Question 1

Major wind storms that swept through India and China

Answer 1

Monsoons

Question 2

2 Major cities of the Indus Civilization

Answer 2

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

Question 3

Early religions were ___________, meaning they had many gods.

Answer 3

Polytheistic

Question 4

The reed that grew in the Nile River delta used by the Egyptians to create paper

Answer 4

Papyrus

Question 5

Means land between the rivers

Answer 5

Mesopotamia

Question 6

This Egyptian leader united Upper and Lower Egypt and was the first Pharaoh

Answer 6

Menes

Question 7

Government where the head of state is also the head of the religion

Answer 7

Theocracy

Question 8

The time before the invention of writing is known as

Answer 8

Prehistory

Question 9

Shallow whirlpools/rapids on the Nile River

Answer 9

Cataracts

Question 10

Chinese writing was _________, meaning it was able to be understood by all people.

Answer 10

Universal

Question 11

(In China) The idea that someone is in power because god wants them to be

Answer 11

Mandate of Heaven

Question 12

Stepped pyramids in Mesopotamia

Answer 12

Ziggurats

Question 13

Ziggurats were used to

Answer 13

Observe the heavens and talk to the gods

Question 14

Special group of people who were able to write in ancient civilizations

Answer 14

Scribes

Question 15

Breeding wild animals to be tamed

Answer 15

Domestication

Question 16

Created the world’s first written code of laws

Answer 16

Hammurabi

Question 17

Helped decipher Egyptian heiroglyphics

Answer 17

Rosetta Stone

Question 18

The dead in ancient Egypt were preserved through

Answer 18

Mummification

Question 19

The Mesopotamian form of writing was called

Answer 19

Cuneiform

Question 20

China remained isolated for many years because of

Answer 20

Geographical barriers

Question 21

The changing of one ruling family to another is called the

Answer 21

Dynastic Cycle

Question 22

The Yellow River was named because of _____, or it’s yellow silt.

Answer 22

Loess

Question 23

A town that had it’s own independent government

Answer 23

A city-state

Question 24

The two earliest dynasties of Ancient China

Answer 24

The Shang and the Zhou

Question 25

A land granting system from China that exchanges rent for protection

Answer 25

Feudalism

Question 26

Which civilization is credited for the invention of the wheel?

Answer 26

Sumer

Question 27

Which civilization used dynasties?

Answer 27

China

Question 28

In which civilization were pyramids used only as tombs?

Answer 28

Egypt

Question 29

Which civilization had a plumbing/sewage system?

Answer 29

Indus

Question 30

Hammurabi’s code is associated with which civilization?

Answer 30

Babylon

Question 31

In which civilization were leaders seen as gods?

Answer 31

Egypt

Question 32

Which civilizations had cities set up in grid patterns?

Answer 32

Indus

Question 33

Which civilization was the world’s first empire?

Answer 33

Akkad

Question 34

Which civilization used pyramid-like structures for religion, government, and storage?

Answer 34

Sumer

Question 35

Which civilization worshiped their ancestors?

Answer 35

China

Question 36

Which civilization is credited for using stamps and seals during trade?

Answer 36

Indus

Question 37

Which civilization trade with the Nubians and Kush

Answer 37

Egypt

Question 38

In which civilization did monsoons cause problems?

Answer 38

Indus

Question 39

Which civilization used the idea “an eye for an eye”?

Answer 39

Babylon

Question 40

Which civilization used Ziggurats?

Answer 40

Sumer

Question 41

Which civilization had predictable flooding?

Answer 41

Egypt

Question 42

The writing of which civilization cannot be read/deciphered?

Answer 42

Indus

Question 43

Which civilization used the Mandate of Heaven to decide who could rule?

Answer 43

China

Question 44

Which civilization wrote in cuneiform?

Answer 44

Sumer

Question 45

Which civilization had a flood calendar?

Answer 45

Egypt