The use of royal families controlling different regions

What two river systems were important resources in China?

Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze)

What are hieroglyphics?

The use of symbols to represent ideas in Egypt

Why are historians not sure about the origins and decline of Ancient India’s civilization?

The ancient indian language has not been translated

Government run on religious authority

What is specialization?

Mastering production of one product

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

There could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time

What led to the decline of the Ancient Indian civilization?

Earthquakes and Invasion of the Aryans

The time before written language

What were the major innovations of the Harappan Civilization?

City Planning and the Grid system

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1
What was the most important resource in ancient Egypt?
The pyramids
The Nile
Mummification
Hieroglyphics
2
What is feudalism?
A government based on religion
Type of writing in ancient China
Farming technique in China
The use of royal families controlling different regions
3
What two river systems were important resources in China?
Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze)
Indus and Euphrates
Nile and Ganges
Tigris and Brahmaputra
4
Where is Mesopotamia located?
Present day Pakistan
Present day Bangladesh
Present day Iraq
Present day Egypt
5
What are hieroglyphics?
The use of symbols to represent ideas in Egypt
A religious system in India
The use of symbols to communicate in Mesopotamia
First written set of laws
6
How were women treated in Ancient China?
They were in charge of the government
As equals with all the same rights
As inferiors with less rights
They had many rights but were not equal
7
What was the religious system in Mesopotamia?
Atheist
Monotheistic
Theocracy
Polytheistic
8
Why are historians not sure about the origins and decline of Ancient India’s civilization?
The ancient indian language has not been translated
Ancient India was not around long enough
The ancient Indian civilization is to old
Historians do know the origins
9
What is a Theocracy?
Government run on religious authority
a place for worship and town hall meetings
A government run based on politics
Belief in more than one God.
10
What was the Mesopotamian system of writing?
Cuneiform
Code of Hammurabi
Hieroglyphics
Cave paintings
11
What percentage of land is suitable for farming in China?
25%
10%
66%
15%
12
What is specialization?
Mastering production of one product
Working in the job you are best at
Being a special person
Trading with the closest civilization
13
What two rivers run through Mesopotamia?
Tigris and the Nile
Indus and the Nile
Euphrates and Ganghes
Tigris and Euphrates
14
What two rivers were important resources in Ancient India?
Indus and Tigris
Ganges and Indus
Yellow River and Yangtze
Nile and Euphrates
15
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A government based on religious authority in Egypt
There could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time
Religious system in ancient India
Name of the first work of literature
16
What natural barriers did Mesopotamia have?
Himalayan mountains
They had no natural barriers
Bay of Bengal
Nile river
17
What led to the decline of the Ancient Indian civilization?
Earthquakes and Invasion of the Aryans
China was becoming more successful
They decided to migrate out of India
Lack of food
18
What is Pre-History?
The time period of Egypt and Mesopotamia
The time before humans existed
The time of the dinosaurs
The time before written language
19
What is a nomad?
highly mobile people
Early farmers
Highly skilled people who hunt, farm, and are great traders.
Cavemen that stayed in one place.
20
What were the major innovations of the Harappan Civilization?
City Planning and the Grid system
Houses and roads
Pyramids and Ziggurats
Coining money and Blast furnaces

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