Early Humans
Old Stone Age.
What is Paleolithic?
Hammurabi brought stability (safety) and prosperity (wealth) to Babylon through his ____.
What are his code of laws?
Irrigation systems (levees, dikes, and reservoirs) are built to increase this necessary part of life.
What is food production (AGRICULTURE)?
Judaism is an example of monotheism or __.
What is belief in one god?
True or False: Greece had independent city-states because of the rugged mountainous terrain.
What is true?
New Stone Age.
What is Neolithic?
The Ancient Sumerians were able to increase food production (feed more people) by moving water from once place to the other, called ____
What are irrigation canals?
True or False: Farming with a plow is evidence of living in a settled community.
What is true?
Ancient Indian cities Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro had gridded streets and water pipes that helped with these two areas.
What is for plumbing and social structure?
This form of government is rule by a small group of people.
What is oligarchy?
Paleolithic people got their food in this way.
What is hunting and gathering?
These rivers were found in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Egyptian farmers used this tool to lead to food surplus (extra).
What is a plow (wood log dragged by an ox).
The practice of spreading culture across other regions.
What is cultural diffusion?
Greeks living near the sea specialized in these activities:
What are shipbuilding, sailing, and trade?
Neolithic people settled into communities because of this food-gathering change.
What is farming?
The Sumerian way of writing.
What is cuneiform?
The leaders of Egypt.
Who were the pharaohs?
Geographic features that hinder cultural diffusion includes these:
What are deserts and mountains?
This group of people were dependent on trading with other civilizations to fully meet their needs.
Who were the Phoenicians?
Taming wild plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication?
Trade, surplus (extra) food, strong kings, and farming were all possible in Mesopotamia because of ___.
What is a division of labor (splitting up jobs)?
A thriving (successful) civilization has these important (characteristics) qualities:
What are a government (politics), a steady food supply (economics), trade (economics), division of labor (economics), permanent homes and communities (social structure), religion (culture), and a writing system (culture)?
These mountains lie between India and China.
What are the Himalayas?
What is civic responsibility?