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Ancient Egypt

MesopotamiaPrehistory

Development that separate prehistory

from recorded history.

Prehistory 100 Points

Prehistory 100 Points

What is a writing system?

Prehistory 200 Points

The Old Stone Age characterized by

hunting and gathering and a nomadic

lifestyle.

What is the Paleolithic Age?

Prehistory 200 Points

Prehistory 300 Points

Any surviving object made by early

people.

Prehistory 300 Points

What is an artifact?

“Wise humans”, the species name for

modern humans.

Prehistory 400 Points

What are homo sapiens?

Prehistory 400 Points

What B.C.E. stands for.

Prehistory 500 Points

What is Before Common Era.

Prehistory 500 Points

Architectural element invented by

Sumerians.

Mesopotamia 100 Points

Mesopotamia 100 Points

What are ziggurats?

Mesopotamia 200 Points

Present-day country that includes most

of Mesopotamia.

What is Iraq?

Mesopotamia 200 Points

Mesopotamia 300 Points

The Babylonian code of laws.

Mesopotamia 300 Points

What was Hammurabi’s Code?

Arc of rich-soil land where

Mesopotamia was located.

Mesopotamia 400 Points

What is the Fertile Crescent?

Mesopotamia 400 Points

Sumerian wedge-shaped writing.

Mesopotamia 500 Points

What is cuneiform?

Mesopotamia 500 Points

This process preserved bodies for the

afterlife.

Ancient Egypt 100 Points

Ancient Egypt 100 Points

What is mummification?

Ancient Egypt 200 Points

Region formed by the mouth of

Egypt’s major river.

What is the Nile Delta?

Ancient Egypt 200 Points

Ancient Egypt 300 Points

Artifact that showed how to decipher

Egyptian writing.

Ancient Egypt 300 Points

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Egyptians used to write on this paper

like material.

Ancient Egypt 400 Points

What is papyrus?

Ancient Egypt 400 Points

Ruler who united Northern and

Southern Egypt.

Ancient Egypt 500 Points

Who was Memes?

Ancient Egypt 500 Points

The desert to the north of China.

Indus River/Ancient China 100 Points

Indus River/Ancient China 100 Points

What is the Gobi Desert?

Indus River/Ancient China 200 Points

Mountain range to the northeast of

India, and southwest of China.

What are the Himalayas?

Indus River/Ancient China 200 Points

Indus River/Ancient China 300 Points

India’s seasonal winds.

Indus River/Ancient China 300 Points

What are monsoons?

Ancient Chinese term for divine right

to rule.

Indus River/Ancient China 400 Points

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

Indus River/Ancient China 400 Points

Items that were inscribed with

questions for ancestors.

Indus River/Ancient China 500 Points

What are Oracle Bones?

Indus River/Ancient China 500 Points

Belief in a number of gods, common

among ancient people.

River Valley Civilizations 100 Points

River Valley Civilization 100 Points

What is polytheism?

River Valley Civilization 200 Points

Method of watering crops during the

dry season.

What is an irrigation system?

River Valley Civilization 200 Points

River Valley Civilization 300 Points

Reoccurring river valley events that

enriched the soil.

River Valley Civilization 300 Points

What is flooding?

Device developed to reckon and mark

time.

River Valley Civilization 400 Points

What is a calendar?

River Valley Civilization 400 Points

Simplified picture of a thing,

developed into written language.

River Valley Civilization 500 Points

What is a pictogram?

River Valley Civilization 500 Points

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