River Valley Civilizations
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- Q1What is the river valley of Mesopotamia?Tigris-EuphratesHuang HeNileIndus30s
- Q2What is the river valley of Egypt?Tigris-EuphratesNileHuang HeIndus30s
- Q3What is the river valley of India?NileIndusTigris-EuphratesHuang He30s
- Q4What is the river valley of China?Huang HeNileTigris-EuphratesIndus30s
- Q5On what continent is the NILE located?AustraliaAfricathe AmericasAsia30s
- Q6Why did civilizations start near rivers?rivers provided water, food, and fertile soilto get settled, these villages must first begin tradingrivers were the most effective means of transportation once ships were inventedit always served as a defense mechanism and nothing more30s
- Q7Rivers did NOT provide which of the following for people living in river valleys?energyprotectiontransportationtrade30s
- Q8What is the writing of the Ancient Sumerians (Mesopotamians) that is wedge-shaped symbols?Sanskritpictographscuneiformhieroglyphics30s
- Q9Most of the river valley civilizations are considered to be this because they worshipped many gods:polytheisticmythologyGodmonotheistic30s
- Q10They 4000 mile long network of trade routes from China to the Mediterranean Sea?the Trans-Saharan trade routesSilk Roadthe barter systemNile River Valley Civilization30s
- Q11What country is the origin of both Hinduism and Buddhism?ChinaIndus RiverIndiaAfrica30s
- Q12What writing system used pictographs Egypt later wrote on papyrus?hieroglyphicsSanskritcuneiformsymbolism30s
- Q13Who had ziggurats?MesopotamiaChinaIndiaEgypt30s
- Q14Why did Egyptians build pyramids?as tombs for pharaohsfor royalty to live into protect their villagesas storehouses of goods in the deserts30s
- Q15Which river valley had people that heavily believed in the afterlife?Tigris-EuphratesIndusNileHuang He30s