STONE AGE
Describe the roles of hunter-gatherer groups.
Men hunted animals for food
Ladies and old men gathered fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and grains.
CUNEIFORM
RAMSES II (THE GREAT)
THE TANAHK (HEBREW BIBLE)
HARAPPA AND MOHENJO DARO
The most important river in China has a Chinese name, an English name, and a nickname. What are these names, and why does it have that nickname?
WHAT IS A POLIS?
A CITY STATE IN GREECE
OCTAVIAN/AUGUSTUS
What does AD stand for?
Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) aka the year Jesus was born.
Who was the 1st person to ever write down laws, what was this set of laws called, AND give three of the laws
Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi
Eye for an Eye, Life for a Life, Innocent until proven guilty
WHAT IS THE AREA CALLED WHERE THE NILE RIVER MEETS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA?
NILE DELTA
NAME THE FIRST THREE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND WHAT EACH IS KNOWN FOR.
SAUL-UNITED TRIBES
DAVID-MADE JERUSALEM THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL
SOLOMON-BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE
WHAT WEATHER SYSTEM BRINGS RAIN TO THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT?
MONSOONS
WHO WAS THE ONE EMPEROR TO UNITE CHINA, BUILD THE GREAT WALL, IMPROVE ROADS AND IRRIGATION, AND INSTITUTE LEGALISM?
QIN SHI HUANGDI
WHAT WERE THE ONLY THING GREEKS HAD IN COMMON?
SHARED THE SAME GODS, LANGUAGE, AND BELIEF THAT ANYONE WHO WASN'T GREEK WAS A BARBARIAN.
IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE JEWISH DIASPORA
70 AD
Fire meant life to the stone age hunters and gatherers. Name the four uses of fire in the Stone Age.
heat, light, protection from predators, and cook food
WHAT IS THE NICKNAME OF MESOPOTAMIA, AND WHAT IS THE REASONING BEHIND THAT NAME?
FERTILE CRESCENT BECAUSE
THE SOIL IS VERY RICH AND THE
LAND IS SHAPED LIKE A CRESCENT
WHAT IS MUMMIFICATION?
THE PROCESS OF PREPARING THE BODY FOR THE AFTERLIFE
NAME THE THREE BODIES OF WATER IN ISRAEL
DEAD SEA, JORDAN RIVER, AND SEA OF GALILEE
NAME THREE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE INDUS RIVER VALLEY.
PERFECT MUD BRICK ARCHITECTURE
GRID SYSTEM ROADS
SANITATION AND SEWER SYSTEMS
DURING THE WARRING PERIOD IN CHINA, CONFUCIUS INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF FILIAL PIETY.
WHAT IS FILIAL PIETY?
RESPECT YOUR ELDERS BECAUSE FAMILY IS NUMBER ONE
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
DIRECT-I VOTE FOR ALL THE LAWS MYSELF
REPRESENTATIVE-I VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE THE LAWS FOR ME
HOW LONG DID THE ROMAN REPUBLIC LAST BEFORE BECOMING AN EMPIRE?
400 YEARS
THIS EVENT occurred, and because of it, civilizations were able to be created!
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
NAME 2 INVENTIONS CREATED IN MESOPOTAMIA TO HELP WITH TRADE, AND 1 INVENTION TO HELP WITH FARMING.
Wheel and sail for trade
The plow for farming
WHAT IS THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF THE EGYPTIANS CALLED?
HIEROGLYPHICS
WHO IS CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF THE HEBREWS?
ABRAHAM
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM?
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA
ALTHOUGH BUDDHISM BEGAN IN INDIA, IT EVENTUALLY SPREAD TO CHINA.
-HOW DID BUDDHISM SPREAD TO CHINA?
SILK ROAD
HOW WERE ATHENS AND SPARTA DIFFERENT IN
EDUCATION
GOVERNMENT
TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND SLAVES
EDUCATION-SPARTA DID NOT VALUE EDUCATION
GOVERNMENT-ATHENS WAS A DIRECT DEMOCRACY; SPARTA WAS AN OLIGARCHY
TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND SLAVES-SPARTAN WOMEN WERE ALLOWED TO OWN PROPERTY, BUT THE HELOTS WERE TREATED HARSHLY.
NAME AT LEAST THREE GROUPS THAT CONQUERED THE ROMAN EMPIRE BECAUSE OF ITS CORRUPTION AND INSTABILITY.
GOTHS, VISIGOTHS, OSTROGOTHS, HUNS, ANGLOS, AND SAXONS
How did the development of written languages impact early human civilizations?
It helped civilizations keep records.
TO WRITE! TO COMMUNICATE! TO KEEP RECORDS...FOR OTHERS!
What is the oldest written story that has ever been found?
THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE GOD-KINGS
WHAT IS MONOTHEISM?
WHAT IS THE SACRED TEXT OF BUDDHISM?
TRIPITAKA
WHAT IS THE BOOK THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF CONFUCIUS WROTE ABOUT HIS SAYINGS?
THE ANALECTS
NAME THE BLIND GREEK POET AND TWO OF HIS STORIES
HOMER WROTE THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY
WHAT TWO SOCIAL CLASSES WERE IN ROME, AND DESCRIBE SOMETHING ABOUT EACH?
PATRICIANS WERE NOBLE AND PLEBEIANS WERE POOR
Basic Hunting
Fire
Shelter
Tools
AN EMPIRE IS WHERE ONE PERSON RULES OVER MULTIPLE TERRITORIES AND CULTURES.
WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO ESTABLISH AN EMPIRE?
Sargon
1922
DESCRIBE THE PATH OF ABRAHAM
WHAT IS THE SACRED TEXT OF HINDUISM
VEDAS
WHAT TYPE OF GOVERNMENT DID THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA BELIEVE IN? HINT: HE BELIEVED ALL PEOPLE WERE EVIL AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
LEGALISM
WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SPEAK GREEK, ACT GREEK, THINK GREEK, AND BE AS GREEK AS POSSIBLE?
HELLENISTIC
WHO DIVIDED THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
DIOCLETIAN
What is the full definition of a nomad?
A person who wanders from place to place without a permanent home looking for food!
MESOPOTAMIA SAW HUGE ADVANCEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE. ONE OF THESE WAS THE BENDING AND SHAPING OF METAL TO MAKE A TOOL.
WHAT IS THIS CALLED?
METALLURGY
NAME 4 THINGS ABOUT PHARAOH HATSHEPSUT
FEMALE PHARAOH
LOVED TO TRADE
STOLE THE POWER FROM HER STEPSON
LOVED OBELISKS
MADE EGYPT RICH
COMPLETE THIS STORY-NEBUDCHADNEZZAR II, KING OF BABYLON, MARCHED INTO.....
JERUSALEM, AND DESTROYED JERUSALEM. HE TOOK ALL THE RICH, SMART, AND PRETTY PEOPLE TO BABYLON FOR THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WHICH LASTED FOR 70 YEARS. UNTIL THE PERSIAN EMPIRE CAME AND TOLD THE JEWS TO GO HOME.
SURGERY
DURING WHAT DYNASTY WAS THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA BUILT?
THE DELIAN LEAGUE
WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL NAME OF CONSTANTINOPLE
BYZANTIUM
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS DEPENDED ON FOOD SURPLUSES TO BECOME CENTERS OF TRADE. WHAT ADVANCEMENT ALLOWED THEM TO WATER CROPS EASILY?
Irrigation
Explain why the Fertile Crescent is Fertile?
Storms in the Mediterranean Sea create clouds that then travel to the Zagros Mountains. They drop their precipitation on the frozen mountains. Then, when spring comes, the frozen precipitation melts and floods down into the Tigris and Euphrates, which then stir up silt onto the land.
NAME EVERY LEVEL OF THE EGYPTIAN SOCIAL HIERARCHY
SLAVES, SERVANTS, FARMERS, ARTISANS, MERCHANTS, SCRIBES, SOLDIER, NOBLE, PRIESTS, AND PHARAOH
BORN A HEBREW SLAVE, RAISED AS AN EGYPTIAN PRINCE...
WHAT NUMBER SYSTEM WAS INVENTED IN INDIA TO HELP WITH TRADE?
HINDU ARABIC NUMERALS
NAME FIVE INVENTIONS OF THE HAN DYNASTY
SILK, WOOD BLOCK PRINTING, MAGNETIC COMPASS, PORCELAIN, AND PAPER
NAME THE THREE MOST FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS OF GREECE AND ONE FACT ABOUT EACH.
SOCRATES-EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT
PLATO-GOVERNMENT AND ETHICS
ARISTOTLE-MATHS AND SCIENCES
SAY THE ENTIRE ROME POEM
TOO LONG TO TYPE!