Chapters 1+2
The way Paleolithic humans altered their environment.
What is they deliberately set fires to encourage the growth of particular plants?
Persian political organization included use of these.
What are lower-level officials drawn from local authorities?
Similarity between Christianity and Zoroastrianism.
What is they both foretold of a savior to return and bring peace to earth.
The factor that led to the emergence of slavery in the First Civilizations.
What is the early domestication of animals?
The description of the Bantu migration.
What is slowly and with only a few families at a time.
This is what the Paleolithic outlook on life was like.
What is elaborate and complex.
Shared trait of the rulers in both Ancient China and Ancient Rome.
What are religiously sanctioned rulers?
A distinctive feature of Greek thought in the Classical era.
What is human reasoning?
Difference between India and China's social structures.
What is the rigid definition between castes?
Similarity between Axum and Mayan culture.
What is they both ad written scripts?
Agricultural problems in Afro-Eurasia that weren't problems in the Americas.
What is deadly diseases caught from domesticated animals.
Ways both Mauryan Dynasty and Persian Empire kept tabs on distant provinces.
What are imperial spies?
These two religious figures were transformed into gods by their followers.
Who are Jesus and Buddha?
Classical Greece's economy relied on this, Han China's economy didn't.
What are slaves?
Classical civilization that Maya was most like politically.
The way agriculture developed differently in Sub-Saharan Africa than in the Fertile Crescent.
What is widely scattered farming practices?
Ways that political culture differed between Greece and Persia.
What is Greece allowed free people to participate in government?
All religious and philosophical ideas of Afro-Eurasia in 500 BCE sought this.
What is to define a single source of order and meaning to the universe.
Why Ancient Chinese social organization was different.
What is because it was shaped by the actions of the state.
What is they were dominated by cities rather than a single empire?
Possible explanation for the development of the First Civilizations.
What is the need for large-scale irrigation projects?
Shared characteristic of all Classical civilizations.
What is they were all capable of coercion?
The ways in which Confucianism had long-term effects on China.
What is the civil-service exam that allowed social mobility.
Social similarity between Classical China and India.
What is they both hard sharp distinctions and great inequalities in their social order?
Civilizations in the Mississippi River Valley and Chaco Canyon took this food source from Mesoamerica.
What is maize?