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Ancient River Civilizations
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This is all about the ancient civilizations that began in river valleys. Good luck!
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1
What were the seasonal winds that dominated India's climate and affect crops called?
Tornadoes
Huricanes
Typhoons
Monsoons
2
What for of writing did the ancient Chinese use?
hierogliphics
inscribing
pictograghs
models
3
Which is the area in SW Asia that civilization first arose?
Fertile Crescent
Bejing
Peru
Egypt
4
What ruler made a uniform code of laws to unify his empire?
Hammurabi
Shang
Chang Jian
King Tut
5
What did ancient Chinese priests use to communicate with the gods?
Oracle Bones
Pharaohs
Papyrus
Shang Di
6
What is the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another called?
Oracle Bones
Loess
Mandate of Heaven
Cultural Diffusion
7
What for of writing did the ancient Egyptians use?
magic
cuneiform
hierogliphics
pictographs
8
What was the early civilization that had the first carefully planned cities?
Indus Valley
Egypt
Bejing
Shang
9
Who was the first ruler of united Egypt?
William the Conquerer
Narmer
Nermal
Jon
10
What were built to house the pharaoh's bodies after death?
Temples
Shrines
Pyramids
Sphinxs
11
What's it called when royal family and nobles are granted use of land belonging to the king?
Digging
Feudalism
Polytheism
Empire
12
What is the rise, decline, and replacement of families of rulers called?
Shang
Loess
Dynastic cycle
Mandate of Heaven
13
What is the Belief in many gods?
monotheism
judeism
cuneiform
polytheism
14
What is a ruler who is believed to have godlike powers called?
Ra
Bishop
Emperer
Pharaoh
15
Who's the legendary Mesopotamian king whose adventures are in one of the worlds earliest books?
King Tut
Sargon
Babylon
Sumer
16
What were the ancient pyramids used for?
Temples
Parties
School
Tombs
17
Who overthrew the Shang dynasty around 1027 B.C.?
Qin
Xia
Shang
Zhou
18
What is the land mass that contains India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal called?
a peninsula
a continent
an island
a subcontinent
19
What was a series of rulers from the same family called?
Duck Dynasty
Dynasty
Gilgamesh
Kingdom
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What is the process of drying and preserving someone's body?
Mummification
Crusification
Meditation
Evaporation
