Early Civilizations
This geographic feature supported the rise of early civilizations.
What are rivers
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur’an?
This philosophy believed laws and punishments kept order.
What is Legalism?
This form of government began in Athens.
What is democracy?
People of the Paleolithic Era found food by doing this:
What is hunting and gathering?
This farming method controlled water flow for crops.
What is irrigation?
Of the five main world religions, three religions are monotheistic.
What are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
This philosophy taught living in harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?
These Roman structures carried water to cities.
What are aqueducts?
This trade route connected China with Europe and saw the exchange of goods, ideas, religion, and disease.
What is the Silk Road?
These were the first written laws in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi’s Code or the Code of Hammurabi?
This Jewish holy text contains the first five books of the Bible.
What is the Torah?
This concept in Confucianism means children owe respect to parents.
What is filial piety?
This Greek city-state focused on military training from a young age.
What is Sparta?
Which era in human history saw the creation of permanent settlements or villages?
What is the Neolithic Era?
These are the two main rivers that Ancient Chinese civilizations grew around.
What are the Huang He (Yellow River), and the Yangtze River?
Hinduism
Confucianism valued this as the path to good government service.
What is education?
This is the term for the blend of Greek culture with other cultures that spread as Alexander the Great's empire grew.
What is Hellenism?
This term means the exchange of ideas and culture.
Cultural diffusion
The Neolithic Revolution began when people learned to do this.
What is farming (agriculture)?
This rigid social system is linked to Hinduism.
What is the caste system?
This exam system in China was based on Confucian teachings and allowed officials to earn government jobs based on merit.
What is the civil service exam?
This civilization developed a republic that is most similar to modern representative democracy.
What is Rome?
Hinduism and Buddhism both believe in karma and that happiness requires overcoming this:
What are desires/attachments?