The Emergence of Ancient Civilizations

Question 1

What is the meaning of ancient?

Answer 1

belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence

Question 2

What is the meaning of civilization?

Answer 2

a society or group of people

Question 3

What is the meaning of civilized?

Answer 3

to bring (a place/people) to a stage of Social and cultural development considered to be more advanced

Question 4

What is the meaning of nomad?

Answer 4

People without help fix a habitation

Question 5

What is the meaning of sedentary?

Answer 5

not Migratory

Question 6

What is the meaning of emergence?

Answer 6

Become known

Question 7

What Are The Necessary conditions for civilization?

Answer 7

Freshwater
 Agriculture
 Cities 
 Specialized jobs
 Writing
 Laws and government
 Social structure

Question 8

What are Early Civilization Rivers?

Answer 8

Mesopotamia-the Tigris and Euphrates River
Egypt-the River Nile
Indian-the Indes and Ganges River
China-yellow or hung he

Question 9

What are the Functions of the Rivers?

Answer 9

domestic purposes -example washing and source of food-fish and animals that come for water 
 travel for trade
 for for every for irrigation
 recreational purposes
deposit rich soils 
build mud houses

Question 10

Where does the Tigris and Euphrates Rive flows from and Empty in?

Answer 10

Flows through Central Iraq and empties in the Persian Gulf

Question 11

What does “Mesopotamia” means?

Answer 11

Mesopotamia is known as the land between the rivers

Question 12

Why does Mesopotamia exists?

Answer 12

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flooded the land and deposit rich soil that made it perfect for agricultural practices

Question 13

Where did the men started the earliest civilization?

Answer 13

Fertile Crescent between the two rivers

Question 14

Where does the Yellow River (Hung He) flows through and empties in?

Answer 14

Flows through Northern China and empties in the Yellow Sea

Question 15

Why is it called Yellow River?

Answer 15

It is called yellow because of loess, which is yellow-brown soil that gets deposited in the river

Question 16

What happens to the land because of the Yellow River?

Answer 16

It gets flooded by river and loess is deposited which is good for farming

Question 17

What is the nickname for the Yellow river and why is it called that?

Answer 17

called River of Sorrow because it caused mass destruction such as death, the loss of crops, and lost of the houses

Question 18

What are “Dikes” and what is the reason for it?

Answer 18

dikes are barriers built at the edge of the river to decrease flooding

Question 19

Where does the Indus River flows through and empties in?

Answer 19

Flows through Central Pakistan and empties into the Arabian Sea

Question 20

What is the location of the Indus River valley civilization?

Answer 20

the location of South Asia

Question 21

What is the date that Mesopotamian civilization emerge?

Answer 21

4000 BCE

Question 22

What is the date that the Yellow River Valley civilization emerge?

Answer 22

4000 BCE

Question 23

What is the date that Egyptian civilization emerge?

Answer 23

3800 BCE

Question 24

What is the date that the Indus River Valley civilization emerge?

Answer 24

2500 BCE