River Valley Civilizations

Where did the first civilizations rise?

• Along river valleys

• Near mountains

• Along the ocean front

• Near Seas

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is known as

• irrigation

• architecture

• fishing

• cuneiform

Who was a ruler of ancient Egypt?

• pharaoh

• scribe

• noble

• mummies

What society was known as the Gift of the Nile?

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• The Indus Valley

• China

The mountains that separate India from the rest of Asia are the

• Khyber Pass

• Himalyayas

• Rockies

• Cascade

What river valley would have been here?

• China
• Mesopotamia
• Indus
• Egypt

What two rivers are associated with the Indus River Valley?

• Ganges and Indus
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Tigris and Ganges
• Nile and Indus

Which two cities were discovered in the Indus River Valley?

• Tigris and Euphrates
  
• Sumer and Babylonia
• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
• Cairo and Bahgdad

Using the map, what river valley is shaded in yellow?

• Egypt
• Mesopotamia/
  Sumer
• India
• China

Using the map, what river valley is shaded in pink?

• Egypt
• Mesopotamia/
  Sumer
• India
• China