Historians
A record of past events and their causes.
What does history mean?
An object made by people from the past.
What is an artifact?
Additional crops
What is a food surplus?
What determined the social class of a person?
Their family's class or birth.
A religion that teaches complete nonviolence and respect for all living things.
What is Jainism?
Asking questions and investigating the past.
What is inquiry?
Groups of people moving from place to place to find food.
What are nomads?
A pyramid shaped structure to honor a chief god.
What is a ziggurat
A practice ancient Egyptians used to preserve a body after death.
What is embalming?
Sacred writings brought by the Aryans.
The Vedas
They study artifacts to bertter understand human culture, beliefs, and society.
What is an anthropologist?
A dramatic, drastice, or extreme change
What is revolution?
He conquered Sumerian's weakened city-states
Who is Sargon?
What was the main role of the pharaoh in the kingdom?
To maintain unity and order in the kingdom.
A religion that teaches how to end suffering by using the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
They study historical documents and artifacts to learn about people and history
What's an archaeologist?
This major turning point in history occurred when people began farming and domesticating animals, allowing them to settle in one place and form permanent communities.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Put the following in order: food surplus, specialization, irrigation
Irrigation, food surplus, specialization
What helped the Kushites become wealthy?
Iron
They had well-planned streets and advanced drainage systems.
What did the Indus Valley cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
Primary sources are original, firsthand accounts or artifacts from the time being studied, while secondary sources analyze, interpret, or explain those events after they have already occurred.
What are the differences between primary and secondary sources?
This helped make trade possible, allowed humans to domesticate animals, increased population growth, and created specialized jobs.
What were the benefits that resulted from the Agricultural Revolution?
Put the following Fertile Crescent Civilizations in order: Neo-Babylonian, Assyrian, Akkadian, Phoenician, Sumerian
Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Phoenician
What technolological tools did egyptians use to create fertile land beyond the Nile River Valley?
Levees, dams, and shadoof
They had well-planned streets and advanced drainage systems.
What did the Indus Valley cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?