Developing Civilizations
Jobs
Rulers
Religion
Geography
100
Before the rise of civilization people were nomadic. What does this mean?
They traveled from place to place hunting and gathering food.
100
How did the first farmers cope with challenges posed by rivers?
What is They learned to control flooding and use irrigation systems
100
Why did ancient rulers build large palaces and temples?
What is To make the citizens believe in the power and strength of the rulers and gods.
100
What does polytheistic mean?
What is Believed in many gods and goddesses
100
The first civilizations developed near these two rivers.
What is The Tigris and Euphrates
200
How did ancient people progress in their social organization?
Nomadic clans to villages to city-states to empires.
200
In the ancient world, who was specially trained to read and write?
What is a scribe
200
What did ancient rulers claim in order to justify their authority?
What is The will of the gods
200
How did the Hebrews differ from other ancient people?
What is Were monotheistic, not polytheistic
200
Why did the first civilizations develop in river valleys?
What is Because annual flooding left silt on the surrounding land which enriched the soil
300
What was the first civilization of the ancient world?
What is Sumer
300
Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations?
What is surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food
300
What does it mean when we say that rulers in the ancient world were hereditary leaders?
What is Leadership was passed from father to son
300
What was the most important religious duty of ancient citizens?
What is To keep their gods happy
300
What was the name of the area that gave birth to the first civilizations?
What is Mesopotamia
400
What did ancient people invent to record grain harvests and keep accurate records of the seasons?
What is writing
400
Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations?
What is Surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food
400
How did anceitn rulers use public works projects to ensure the cities' food supplies?
What is built irrigation systems, roads, and bridges and kept records of harvests
400
What were temples in the Fertile Crescent called?
What is Ziggurats
400
Where did the Hebrews escape to?
What is Palestine
500
What developed as a result of the need to control the rivers, collect taxes, and build public works projects?
What is 1) Centralized Government
500
Ranking people according to their jobs led to this
What is the development of the first social classes
500
How did ancient rulers use public work projects to provide for the defense of the city?
What is built walls around the city to protect it from attack
500
What stood at the top of each Ziggurat?
What is A shrine to the chief god or goddess of the city
500
What caused conflict among the first civilization of the Fertile Crescent?
What is They competed to control land and water.
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