Hunter-Gatherers
The period between the emergence of stone tools and the appearance of metal tools.
What is the Stone Age?
This dynasty was the first to record their history in the Yellow River valley.
Who are the Shang?
Pax Romana refers to this condition in Rome.
What is peace?
The Egyptian Civilization prospered due to its location on this river.
What is the Nile River?
The taming of animals through human intervention.
What is domestication?
Hunter-gatherer bands organized their society based on this.
What is kinship?
This invention is associated with the rise of the first civilizations.
What is writing?
In the Roman Republic, the people ruled through these.
What are elected representatives?
The Shang Dynasty recorded their history in the valley of this river.
What is the Yellow River?
This term means to stay in one place.
What is sedentary?
These experienced individuals became informal leaders in hunter-gatherer groups.
Who are elders?
Food surpluses from agriculture allowed for the development of these specialized workers.
What are artisans and government officials?
This was the first set of written laws in the Roman Empire.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Ancient civilizations arose in river valleys because of access to water and this.
What is fertile soil?
Natural fertilizer found in rivers that made farming productive.
What is silt?
Hunter-gatherers traveled in groups of this size and shared everything, sometimes returning to a base.
What are 30-50 people?
Mesopotamian civilizations developed these independent political units.
What are city-states?
The Athenians created this alliance to protect themselves from the Persians.
What is the Delian League?
Early settled societies needed areas that were rich in these two things.
What are natural resources and water (rivers)?
An early form of writing using symbols and pictures in ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
This major shift allowed people to stay in one place and changed life from hunting and gathering.
What is the agricultural revolution/the discovery of agriculture?
Early settled societies developed in areas with these two key features.
What are rich natural resources and proximity to a river?
Unlike a direct democracy where all citizens vote on laws, the Roman Empire used this system of governance.
What is a republic?
Mesopotamia developed city-states and trade along this region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Chinese priests used these to predict the future.
What are oracle bones?