Early Humans
Define the term agriculture.
What is... farming. Cultivating plants and animals for human use.
Mesopotamia is known as the land...
What is... between two rivers?
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is... Africa?
Greece is located on this continent.
What is... Europe?
The Silk Road began in this county (or empire).
What is... China (or the Han Dynasty/Empire).
Define the terms sedentary and nomadic.
What is... to stay in one place, to have a permanent home (sedentary) and to move from place to place with no permanent home (nomadic).
Cuneiform is the first...
What is written language?
The purpose of the Egyptian pyramids.
What is... a tomb for the pharaohs.
The city-state that was known for its military.
This is... SPARTA!
This animal helped travelers cross the Silk Road.
What is... a camel.
The old stone age and the new stone age.
Mesopotamia was a ___lithic society. (paleolithic or neolithic)
What is neolithic?
The name for an Egyptian ruler.
Name the two major physical features of Greece.
What is... mountains and islands.
Name one desert that travelers of the Silk Road had to cross.
What is... the Gobi desert or the Taklimakan desert.
Early humans always built civilizations near what physical feature?
What is rivers?
The purpose of a ziggurat.
What is... a home for the gods.
Name 2 things an Egyptian may have been buried with.
What is... food, weapons, household goods, paintings, statues, jewelry, pots, pets, their organs (stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines).
This city-state is known for being the birthplace of democracy.
What is... Athens.
Name two things travelers from China might trade along the Silk Road.
What is... silk, gunpowder, paper, orange trees, iron, bronze, ceramics, and Confucianism.
Name 1 push factor for migration and 1 pull factor.
What is...
push: lack of food/water, natural disasters, lack of jobs, war
pull: abundance of food/water, better climate, better job/more money, freedom
The two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Name 2 steps in the mummification process.
What is... announcement of the death, embalming of the body, removal of the brain, removal of internal organs, drying out process, wrapping of the body, and the final procession.
What is... Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Dionysus, Demeter, Eros, Atlas, Hermes, Ares, Aphrodite, Athena, Hestia, Helios, Gaia, Prometheus, and Asclepius.
Name 3 dangers travelers might face along the Silk Road.
What is... white-hot sand dunes, forbidding mountains, brutal winds, poisonous snakes, bandits, and pirates.