Vocab
DEFINE THE TERMS “POLYTHEISTIC” & “MONOTHEISTIC.”
Belief in many gods or one god.
This civilization built a large wall to protect them from enemies and is called the Great Wall.
CHINA
Athens & Sparta were two famous city-states in this civilization.
Greece
Identify letter N on the map.
Mediterranean Sea
Identify letter I on the map.
Indus River
DEFINE THE TERM “CUNEIFORM” & WHO INVENTED/ USED IT.
CUNEIFORM: PICTURE WRITING SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY THE SUMERIANS AND USED BY PEOPLE IN MESOPOTAMIA
The Babylonians, Akkadians, Persians & Sumerians lived in this civilization.
Mesopotamia
This civilization had three separate governments: kingdom, republic & empire before the civilization fell apart.
Rome
Identify letter M on the map.
Indean Ocean
Identify letter K on the map.
DEFINE THE TERM: “PENINSULA” & GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
A SECTION OF LAND SURROUNDED BY WATER ON 3 SIDES AND CONNECTED TO THE MAINLAND ON THE 4TH SIDE.
EXAMPLE: ITALY, GREECE, FLORIDA, ALASKA
This civilization allowed women to participate in government and have similar rights as men.
Egypt
This civilization wore bright makeup and wrote on a paper called papyrus.
Egypt
Identify letter G and F on the map.
Huang He/Yellow River
Indus River
Identify letter L and J on the map.
Greece
Egypt
IDENTIFY THIS TERM: “a large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea”
FERTILE CRESCENT
This civilization had a very strict caste or class system.
Indus River Valley/Harappa
THESE TWO CIVILIZATIONS WERE ON A PENINSULA.
Rome and Greece
Identify letter A and C and B on the map.
Nile River
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Identify letter H and D on the map.
China
Rome
THESE PEOPLE (Babylonians, Akkadians, Persians & Sumerians) LIVED WHERE? & WHAT DOES THE NAME OF THE LAND THEY LIVED ON MEAN?
The Babylonians, Akkadians, Persians & Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia, which means land between two rivers.
LIST ALL 6 CIVILIZATIONS AND THE CONTINENT THE CIVILIZATION IS LOCATED ON
MESOPOTAMIA: ASIA
CHINA: ASIA
INDUS RIVER VALLEY: ASIA
EGYPT: AFRICA
GREECE: EUROPE
ROME: EUROPE
LIST THE CIVILIZATIONS THAT GREW UP NEXT TO A RIVER & THE NAME OF THE RIVER NEXT TO THEM.
MESOPOTAMIA: TIGRIS & EUPHRATES RIVERS
CHINA: HUANG HE RIVER
INDUS RIVER VALLEY: INDUS RIVER
EGYPT: NILE RIVER
Which civilizations are NOT in Asia
Rome
Greece
Egypt