First Civilizations: Assyria and Minoans and Mycenaean
Early Civilizations: China, India, Phoenician
Key Innovations
100
A person who moves from place to place in search of food
What is a nomad?
100
Historians call the earliest period of human history.....
What is the Old Stone Age?
100
The Mycenaean developed a unique way to decorate their homes using this technique.
What are frescoes?
100
The Chinese civilization grew in this surrounding area.
What is the Huange He River Valley? Yellow River or River of Sorrows
100
What were the key innovations in Sumer
What is wheel, cuneiform writing, and advances in astronomy and mathematics
200
A system of managing of government through specialized departments run by appointed officials
What is bureaucracy?
200
Eight basic features common to most early civilization
What are cities, well-organized central governments, complex religions, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, public works, and writing?
200
Assyrians used this group of leaders to help collect their taxes.
What are satraps?
200
Aryans were -
a nomadic people who raided the villages of the Indus Valley
200
What were the key innovations in Babylon
What is legal code, and advances in astronomy and mathematics?
300
A skilled craft worker is referred to as -
What is artisan?
300
Neolithic farmers established permanent villages and developed.....
What are new skills, tools and animal domestication?
300
The Minoans used this to feed their Minotaur -half-bull, half-man.
What are labyrinths?
300
About 1650 B.c., a Chinese people called the ____ came to power and established this unique feature of Chinese history.
What is Shang Dynasty and the Mandate of Heaven?
300
What was the key innovation by the Phoenicians
What is Phonetic alphabet?
400
Simple drawings on cave walls that represented ideas are -
What are pictographs?
400
Stone Age people learned to......
Adapt to their environment for survival by using fire and protective living environments.
400
After his death, the Babylonian region that was taken over by Assyria revolted against their satraps and decided to attack once more.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
400
This is the rise and fall of dynasties throughout most of China's history.
What is dynastic cycle?
400
What were the key innovations in India
What is plumbing system, sewers, and caste system?
500
These prevented the Egyptian from traveling the 4, 258 miles of the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
500
While empire building brought painful defeat for conquered people,.....
What is helped limit war and establish connections between neighboring communities called cultural diffusion?
500
The Myceneanans develop a very particular way of writing called this which led to this unusual language.
What is Linear A and B or Eteocretan?
500
Phoenicians used the shell of the Murex sea-snail to create this unique substance.
What is Tyrian purple dye?
500
Key innovations in Persia consisted of -
What is use of deadly weapons, coins and money (taxed) economy?