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Prehistory and River Valley Civilizations
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River Valley Civilizations
Indus River/Ancient
China
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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