The Most important social scientist that studies Artifacts such as Stone Tools from the Paleolithic Era.
Archaeologist
Where did the Ancient River Valley Civilizations begin?

JEOPARDY! x5
Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China
No one could understand Hieroglyphics until they discovered something in the town of Rosetta in 1799.
The Rosetta Stone
Greece was a peninsula with many mountains and islands. Therefore they developed separate ___________________.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! x2
City-States
with their own laws and ways of life
Network of trade routes by land and sea
The Silk Road
Hinduism originated in what Ancient River Valley Civilization ?
INDIA
Why did Hunter- Gatherers use stone tools and weapons ?

HUNTING - GATHERING and protection
What water feature did all of the first Ancient Civilizations have in common ?

They all had rivers or located near rivers
The Mesopotamians built Ziggurats to worship __________.
GODS
Alexander the great who was born to King Philip the II built cities in the places that he conquered and believed in a HELLENISTIC way of life. This meant that the people were exchanging with each other and of mixed backgrounds living amongst each other. Otherwise known as __________________.
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
During Rome and the Middle Ages (Medieval Times) the people in WESTERN EUROPE were greatly influenced by the POPE and what specific religious Church?
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ROMAN CATHOLIC
Buddhism was the major Religion in _______________
CHINA
Paleolithic Age =
Old Stone Age
Ancient River Valley Civilizations built irrigation systems that gave them a stable food supply and they even had extra or a surplus. What did they do with the extra food ?
The would TRADE it
The Ancient Egyptians built PYRAMIDS because they believed the mummified Pharaoh would go to an ____________________
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AFTERLIFE
The most important thing to know about Greece's government is that they created a ______________________democracy.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Muhammad, Mecca, Middle Ages, 610 C.E.
BIRTH of ISLAM
What were the two things Hinduism and Buddhism had in common?
KARMA and REINCARNATION
Neolithic Age =
NEW STONE AGE
If you found a clay tablet with Mesopotamian Cuneiform writing on it. What type of source would that be?

PRIMARY SOURCE
If you lived during a DYNASTY such as the QIN Empire and were ruled by Emperor Shi Huang Di , then you lived in which Civilization?
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CHINA
Athens was different from Sparta because Athens was a place for education and Sparta was all about war.
If you were living in Sparta then you had to join the
_______________________.
MILITARY
belief, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage
5 pillars of Islam
What are the 3 MONOTHEISTIC religions we learned about in order?
JUDAISM , CHRISTIANITY , ISLAM
FARMING is invented and becomes the most important TURNING POINT in the existence of the world! Early Humans now have a STABLE FOOD SUPPLY and could STAY in ONE PLACE during this age / era...
The New Stone Age or Neolithic era began
I THINK: Hammurabi kept law and order in his city-state because he posted the first written laws and punishments. I KNOW:_______________________.

Hammurabis Code of laws
If you followed the teachings of CONFUCIUS in China, then you probably believed in being a respectful, responsible, better, good _____________________.
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CITIZEN or PERSON
This man was the first to culturally mix or diffuse Greeks with Persians, Egyptians, and Indian peoples.
ALEXANDER the GREAT
Islamic Muslim GOD
Allah
The people who follow Buddhism believe they will reach Nirvana if they follow these two numbers of truths and paths
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What is 4 and 8
The 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path
The Neolithic Era or New Stone Age and staying in one Place led to the FIRST _____________________________
CIVILIZATIONS
The Ancient Egyptians had a writing system used to document and keep records called _____________________________.
HIEROGLYPHICS
Without the SILK ROAD ( A network of roads and sea routes named after the invention of SILK. They would not have been able to trade or exchange these 3 things _____________. _____________. ______________.
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GOODS, SERVICES, IDEAS
The most important thing to know about Roman Government was that it was a __________________.
REPUBLIC
After Rome falls and splits, this Empire prospers and succeeds for the next 1000 years.
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BYZANTINE EMPIRE
People from different cultural backgrounds who traded and exchanged ideas such as Religious Ideas on the Silk road is an example of ______________________________.
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Cultural Diffusion
location, place, region, movement, human-environment-interaction
The 5 themes of Geography
If RIVERS provide WATER for drinking, farming, and growing crops, then what kind of circumstances are these?
GEOGRAPHICAL
If you use the resources around you to change and make the area around you better, then what theme of geography are you?
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HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-INTERACTION
The Romans left behind a legacy of government that inspired American Government because they had these things and so do we...
3 BRANCHES, SENATE, VETO, REPUBLIC,
REPRESENTATIVES, VOTING
If you lived during a "GOLDEN AGE" in Greece or ROME then there was probably a lot of successful __________________and_______________.
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ACHIEVEMENTS or ACCOMPLISHMENTS
If you were a Brahmin Priest, Vaisyas Merchant, or Sudras worker then you lived in which River Valley Civilization?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! x2
INDIA