Misc
The Bronze Age begins when people discover they can do what to create stronger metal?
Alloy copper and tin
The catastrophic demise of Minoan civilization is strongly linked to what major natural disaster in 1628 BC?
The Volcanic eruption of Thera/ Santorini
Harappan Civilization is unique for its lack of evidence of what? (name 1)
i. Religion
ii. Social Hierarchy
iii. Standing army
What items did Shang kings use for divination to communicate with ancestors? How did
they use them?
a. Oracle bones
b. Heated them until the cracked, analyzed where and how they cracked
How did the transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age change society in states?
They became more stratified with the introduction of metallurgy.
What Middle Bronze Age civilization on Crete is named after a figure from Greek
mythology?
Minoan
Harappan Civilization was thought to have been organized as a ___, rather than a
hierarchy, but the culture that came after them established a
____ system.
Heterarchy, caste
The idea (created by the Zhou dynasty to defend their overthrow of the Shang) that a
ruler's right to govern is granted by a divine power, and can be withdrawn if the ruler is
unjust, is known as what?
The Mandate of Heaven
Name 2 culture heroes from two different cultures
a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. Narmer of Egypt
c. Yellow Emperor, Fu Hsi, Shen Nung; Shang
d. Daedulus, Minos; Minoan
How do linguistics help us understand what culture came after Harappan Civilization in
India and Pakistan?
We know they were Indo-Europeans because the old (Dravidian) language was
replaced with Sanskrit, an Indo-European language.
What Bronze Age culture is not considered a civilization because it lacked evidence of a state-level society?
Cycladic Culture/ Cyclades
Name 5 important rivers and the civilizations or monumental sites that formed around
them.
a. Boyne, New Grange, Knowth, Dowth
b. Avon, Stonehenge
c. Yellow, Shang
d. Indus, Harappan Civilization
e. Nile, Egypt
f. Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia/ Sumerian Civilization
g. Jordan, Jericho
h. Copan, Maya
i. Tonala and Amazinac, Olmec