History & Geography
We use these acronyms to indicate the years BEFORE the year 0.
What is 'BCE' or 'Before Christ Era'
Neolithic is another word for this noun.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
What is one advantage of living near a river?
Fresh water
Fishing
Farming
Fertile Land
Travel (by boat)
Egypt is in located in this continent
What is Africa?
is the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes. The (blank) of a region includes its topography and climate.
What is physical geography?
Humans domesticated both these TWO things that allowed them to stay permanent and no longer be nomads
What is plants and animals?
What did the men do before the Neolithic Revolution?
hunt
Many of the world's first civilizations started their cities, farms and villages around these
What are river valleys/rivers?
Known as the main water source in Egypt
What is the Nile River?
This ocean is to the west of North America and to the East of Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean
BEFORE the Neolithic Revolution women would do this
What is Gather plants/berries(gathering) and have babies?
This was a considered a technology during this time period in which humans received warmth, protection, and light.
What is fire?
describes the right of the government to rule over its people, as perceived by those whom the government rules over
What is legitimacy
Egypt had this system with their pharoah/ruler on top, bureaucrats and elites in middle, and peasants and slaves at bottom
What is this term
What is social heirarchy?
Historians construct these (blank) using primary sources. The (blank) of constructed by different historians differ and the (blank) constructed by historians change over time.
What is a narrative?
Because humans could produce much more food in the same area through farming, they no longer to migrated. Instead they were sedentary and could live in permanent settlements. This caused to (blank to increase)
A downside is more people were easily able to get diseases and sick.
What is population density?
Because this Era pre-dates the invention of writing, our evidence about how humans lived during this time period comes primarily from these TWO things
What are artifacts and cave paintings?
Irrigation is the movement of water from a ___________ to where your farm/house is.
These two things allowed Egypt to become a STABLE state
What is natural barriers of mountains, deserts, and predictable flooding by Nile River?
is the study of how the narratives constructed by different historians differ from one another and how the narratives that historians construct change over time.
What is Historiography?
These are TWO major social costs/negatives of Neolithic Revolution that still occur today due to the condition of how people were first treated different during the Neolithic Revolution
What is inequality (social hierarchy/unequal power amongst classes) and patriarchy (men controlling family and society)?
During the Paleolithic Era, communities were normally small and were often extended families. This helped the people in the group feel connected to each other without the need for an organized government to unify them. Having few belongings, everyone had access to the same few items. What is the term for government having the same access to few items?
What is egalitarian?
When you convert others who are not apart of your faith or religion group from different areas. Christianity is an example.
What is a universalizing religion?
Egyptian Pharoahs/rulers used these two things to legitimize their rules and establish social hierarchy over citizens
What is religion and monumental architecture (pyramids)?