River Valley Civilizations
Early Humans
Mapping & Geography
World Religions
Vocabulary
100
Name two reasons civilizations are built on rivers
Food source, water source, transportation, trade, travel, irrigation to water crops
100
What is a hominid?
An early ancestor or relative from the past of humans
100
Name the five oceans
Atlantic
Pacific
Southern
Arctic
Indian
100
What does it mean to be polytheistic?
A belief in multiple gods
100
What is agriculture?
Farming
200
Name two achievements from River Valley Civilizations that we still use today
Number system based on 60, wheels, irrigation systems, canals, Medical tools, calendars
200
What is the law of superposition?
Younger rocks are on top and older rocks are on the bottom - Super(over), Position (order) and superposition (placing over)
200
Name the seven continents
North America
South America
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
Europe
Africa
200
Who was Gandhi?
An Indian civil rights activist who used nonviolent resistance
200
What is reincarnation?
Belief that each person has many lives
300
Which civilization created hieroglyphics, pyramids and sphinx?
Egypt
300
What is the vocabulary word for "the science that deals with past human life and activities by studying the bones, tools, etc, of ancient people."
Archaeology
300
What are the five things every map should have?
Title
Legend/Key
Map Scale
Longitude and Latitude Lines
Compass rose
300
What are the four noble truths?
The Buddhist values that explore human suffering
300
What is domestication?
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful for humans
400
What are two geographic features that impacted the Indus River Valley and how did they impact the civilization?
Mountains: created protection and isolation from other civilizations
Indus River: trade, natural resource, irrigation
Monsoons: seasonal direction change in the wind - creates either dry or rainy weather
400
What is the difference between history and prehistory?
Prehistory is before the invention of writing and during the emergence of early humans - history is after the invention of writing
400
What type of map is being shown below? How do you know?
Physical Map because it shows the landforms
400
What is the caste system in India/Hinduism?
A class structure that is determined by birth into which the Hindu people in India were typically divided
400
What is enlightenment?
A spiritual awakening/a deep understanding
500
Why was trade impactful between the Indus River Valley and Mesopotamia?
Allowed for the exchange of resources to gain wealth and exchange of cultures
500
Why was the Neolithic revolution impactful?
The Neolithic revolution caused for early humans to settle in permanent villages, domesticate animals and begin farming
500
What type of map is being shown below? How do you know?
Political map because it shows the borders for the states.
500
Why are untouchables called untouchables?
They are at the bottom of the caste system since they perform jobs no one else wants to do like funerals and clean animal skin - makes them polluted
500
What is irrigation?
A way of supplying water