Origins of Civ.
A complex culture with a large number of people who share common elements.
What is CIVILIZATION?
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
The complex form of writing developed by the Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
Social structure developed in India
What is the Caste System?
A Chinese invention that allowed for writing and record keeping to be easier
What is paper?
How humans USED to obtain their food before farming.
What is hunting and gathering?
This leader of Babylon created the first set of recorded laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
The simpler form of writing developed by the Egyptians
What is the hieratic system?
Early Indian civilizations developed around these two rivers valleys
What are the Indus and the Ganges?
A picture or drawing representing words or ideas
What is a Pictograph?
The Six Characteristics of Civilization
What is?
Cities
Religion
Social Classes
Writing
Art
Government
A government guided by divine authority and religion.
What is a theocracy?
The purpose of building the pyramids.
What is to honor their dead pharaohs?
Writing system developed by the Aryans
What is Sanskrit?
A government led by the richest and most powerful people in society.
What is Aristocracy?
This is the shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture
What was the Neolithic (Farming) Revolution?
An invention of the Mesopotamians.
What are:
Wagon Wheel
Potter’s wheel
Sundial
Bronze
Geometry
Astronomy
Hour = 60 minutes
What is Giza?
The Hindu holy text
What is the Vedas?
The two rivers most important to the development of China
What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?
What is job specialization?
The ____________invented this wedge-shaped system of writing called __________________
Who are the Sumerians? And what is Cuneiform?
BONUS DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This was the pharaoh who the Great Pyramid of Giza was built for.
Who is KHUFU?
The castes of the caste system
What are the:
-Brahmans
-Kshatriyas
-Vaisyas
-Sudras
-BONUS: Untouchables (Dalits)
Ancient Chinese emphasized the worship of this group of people.
Who are their ancestors?