Who does what?
They spend their careers researching history and the significance of various events in history.
Who is a Historian?
The river the people of Egypt and Kush settled along.
What is the Nile River?
The transition from a hunter gatherer society to a farming society.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The G stands for this.
What is Geography?
No single person founded this. It developed slowly, over a long period of time.
Who founded Hinduism/When did Hinduism begin?
They study the surface of the Earth and natural phenomena. They look at topics like terrain, the distribution of water, climate patterns, ecosystems, and the relationships between living organisms.
Who is a Geographer?
Mesopotamia was the land between these two rivers. (Half points possible)
What are the Euphrates & Tigris rivers?
The belief in one (1) god.
What is Monotheism?
The R stands for this.
What is Religion?
What happens to a person is a result of their previous actions.
What is Karma?
(E.C:Correct actions for one's class helps achieve karma. What is the term for these correct actions?)
They engage in the academic study of humanity. It deals with all that is characteristic of the human experience, from physiology and the evolutionary origins to the social and cultural organization of human societies.
What is an Anthropologist?
These are 3 environmental factors that impacted early settlements in Egypt, Kush and Canaan. (partial points possible)
What is water, topography, and vegetation?
The belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
This is what the A stands for.
What are achievements?
Non-violence, requires the believer to protect humans, animals, insects, even plants.
What is Ahimsa?
They study human activity, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data.
Who is an Archaeologist?
Farmers worked together, creating large cities.
What is one way Sumerian farmers dealt with an uncontrolled water supply?
A large distinguishable part of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
(Extra Credit Opportunity: What is a subcontinent we have studied in this class?)
The P stands for this.
What is politics/political system?
These are the 4 Noble Truths (partial credit available).
1. Suffering is present in all things, & nothing lasts forever.
2. Suffering is caused by cravings/thirst (desires & wants).
3. The way to end suffering is to give up all cravings.
4. The way to give up all cravings is to live life according to the Eightfold Path.
The way people lived in early human history.
What are/were hunters & gatherers?
Irrigation System
What is one way Sumerian farmers dealt with an uncontrolled water supply?
The Hindu social structure pyramid in India
The E stands for this.
What is Economics?
Release from the pain and suffering of rebirth & becoming one with the universal spirit, which only Brahmins can achieve.
What is Moksha?
(E.C.: What is an equivalent term for freedom from reincarnation in Buddhism?)