SS 1
What does AD/BC mean?
Anno Domini/Before Christ
What was the first river valley civilization?
Mesopotamia
What is job specialization?
Not everyone needed to be a farmer so people would specialize in a job so they could trade for what they needed.
What desert is in Africa?
What are the Ten Commandments?
Became the foundation for the moral principals and many laws in Western Civ
Which year is older? 100 BC or 100 AD?
100 BC
What are the nicknames of Mesopotamia?
Land between two rivers, Fertile Crescent
What is a monarchy?
Government leader who inherited power through the royal bloodline.
Northern Africa is called the land ______
of the Nile
Who created the first temple?
Solomon
What is Prehistory?
Time before history was written down
What is silt?
Fine sand or soil carried by running water and deposited on land
The oldest written epic
Epic of Gilgamesh
What was the irrigation system called in Ancient Egypt?
Shadoof
Name a city in Ancient India.
Mohenjo-Daro
What is a nomadic hunter-gatherer?
Person who moved from place to place. Hunted and trapped animals and gathered things to eat
What was the first civilization of Mesopotamia?
Sumer
The world's first empire
Akkadians
Ancient Egypt was Mono or Polytheistic?
Polytheistic
What is the Hindu Caste System?
Sudras, Vaisyas, Kshatriyas, Brahmin
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Discovery of Farming
What advancements did Sumer have in agriculture?
Irrigation, metallurgy, plow, wheel
How many days did the Sumerian calendar have on it?
360
What was the Mummification Process and why did they do this?
Canopic jars, salt, wrapped, put in coffin, placed in tomb in Pyramids.
What are the Key ideas of Hinduism?
Dharma, Reincarnation, Karma, Moksha