Pre-History
Key Terms
Notable Early Civilizations
Technological Advances
Mixed Bag
100

Early humans traveled in search of food, without building settlements

Nomadic Lifestyle
100

This is a person who studies written records of the past.

What is a historian?

100

What rivers are associated with Mesopotamia?

Tigris or Euphrates

100

Why did humans shift from hunter-gather societies to agricultural societies?

The shift allowed for humans to create food surpluses.

100

The taming of animals and plants

Domestication

200
Farming makes this possible; Makes large populations possible.
What is a stable food supply?
200

A member of a society that relies on hunting & gathering wild food sources

Hunter-Forager

200

The Shang & Zhou states would become what country in the modern Era?

China

200
Identify one way religion was used to legitimize early state power

Ziggurats, were giant structure, used as religious temples

200

When members of a settlement take on different jobs; farmers, merchants, hunters

Specialization of Labor

300

An early form of weaponry used to hunt large animals, during the Ice-Age

Clovis Spear Points

300

This can be caused by improving food supply through agriculture

Population Growth

300

Where did humans first migrate too after leaving Africa?

The middle east
300

Identify one way urbanization lead to an increase in early state power

- City surrounded by giant walls, to protect against invaders

- More developed cities has social stratification

300

Identify 2 technological innovation that made transportation easier

The Wheel, The Chariot, Domestication of Horses, Boats/Ships

400
Stable food supply, government, social structure, art, religion, writing and technology.
What are characteristics of civilization?
400

Belief in more than one God

Polytheism

400

Which notable civilizations created the "Mandate of Heaven"

Shang & Zhou

400

Identify 2 technological advances that helped increase early state power

Chariots

Writing systems

Wheel

Jamon Pot

Quipu

400

When bricks, weights, and measurements became the same weights in the Indus Valley

Standardization

500

A personal or institutionalized set of beliefs, practices, and attitudes that relate people to supernatural, spiritual, or transcendental elements

What is religion?

500

A belief created by the Early Shang State that claimed, "Emperors were chosen by God"

Mandate of Heaven
500

Identify 1 major contribution of early Egypt

Identify 1 major contribution of Indus Valley

Hieroglyphics or Pyramids

Standardized Weights and Measures

500

                SUPER QUESTION

Name one technological agricultural improvement and explain its impact

Irrigation (systems): enabled consistent food production through controlled water distribution to crops -> led to pop growth

Terraced Farming: increased usable farmland on mountains -> greater food surplus

Three Sisters Farming: a method of planting corn, beans, & squash at the same time -> increase crop production & crop diversity

500

Where is Indus Valley located in the modern day?

Pakistan (India)

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