Mesopotamia
What were the first settlers of this area called? (Fertile Crescent)
Who are the Sumerians?
Where is the Nile River Valley Located?
What is Ancient Egypt?
Where is the Indus River Valley Civilization located?
What is India and or Pakistan?
What development during the Neolithic Revolution allowed for the exchange of goods and resources between communities?
What is trade?
Which geographic feature had the greatest influence on ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What was their system of writing?
What is cuneiform?
What natural occurrence provided fertile soil along the Nile, crucial for farming?
What is the annual flooding?
What is one of the two great cities of the Indus Valley civilization?
What is Mohenjo-Daro or Harappa?
What key tool, developed during the Neolithic Revolution, was essential for farming and food production?
What is the plow?
How did the introduction of agriculture affect early peoples?
What is the development of Civilizations?
Which two rivers are essential to the development of Mesopotamian civilization?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What writing system was developed by the ancient Egyptians to record their language and culture?
What is hieroglyphics?
What major factor is believed to have contributed to the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1900 BCE?
What is climate change? (BUT WE DON'T OFFICIALLY KNOW!)
What demographic change occurred as a result of the Neolithic Revolution, leading to increased food production?
What is population growth?
What is the process of taming wild animals for human use, which played a key role in the development of agriculture?
What is domestication?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "the land between the rivers"?
What monumental structures were built as tombs for pharaohs in the Nile Valley?
What are pyramids?
What feature of Indus Valley cities indicates their advanced knowledge of sanitation (& hygiene)?
What are public baths or drainage systems?
What was one significant social outcome of the Neolithic Revolution, resulting in the formation of permanent settlements?
What is the establishment of villages (or civilizations)?
What type of government is ruled by religious leaders and is based on religious law?
What is Theocracy?
What is the oldest known legal system?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What are the three periods in which Egypt is organized?
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdoms?
What agricultural technique involving the controlled flooding of fields was utilized in the Indus Valley? (HINT** All of the Riv. Civs. had some sort of system involving this!**)
What is irrigation?
True or False: One result of the Neolithic Revolution was the establishment of villages and the rise of governments.
What is true?
What major transition involved the shift from hunting and gathering to farming?
What is the Neolithic Revolution?