Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China

What were city-states?

• Cities that were within a huge state.

• Cities and the surrounding farmland.

• An ancient city.

What is a ziggurat?

• The temples of Mesopotamia.

• The city-halls of Mesopotamia.

• Where the kings were buried.

What was the event where people started to domesticate plants and animals for their own use and stopped hunting and gathering.

• Hunting and Gathering

• Farming

• Agricultural Revolution

Surplus of food led to ______.

• More PEOPLE! (Population)

• More DISEASE

• People MOVING

The belief in many gods is called...?

• Monotheism

• Mythology

• Polytheism

The agricultural region that surrounds the Tigris and Euphrates River is called...?

• Fertile Crescent

• Green Valley

• River Valley

The first form of writing was called?

• Papyrus

• Cuneiform

• Alphabet

The oldest written story on earth is called...?

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• The Epic of Hercules

• Aladdin and the Magic Carpet

The first written laws in Mesopotamia were written by...?

• Gilgamesh

• Cleopatra

• Hammurabi

Which is further north: Upper Egypt or Lower Egypt?

• Upper Egypt

• Lower Egypt