Mesopotamia
What is the other name/term for the Mesopotamia region?
Fertile Crescent
Longest river in the world used for transportation, which ran right through Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile
What is the name of the main river for the river valley within India?
The Indus River
What are the two rivers that supported the early Chinese Civilizations?
Yellow and Yangzi Rivers
Time period where early humans were moving place to place.
Paleolithic Era / Old Stone Age
What are the names of the two rivers that went through Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates
What often refers to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as the Indian?
What is the subcontinent?
Why did China's geography have such a significant impact on the development of these early civilizations?
Their geography created natural barriers which made it difficult to develop, and also interact with other cultures and groups.
Event where early humans started to settle in River Valleys and create civilizations, domesticate animals, and plant crops.
Neolithic Revolution
What was the name of the set of laws created within this ancient civilization?
Code of Hammurabi
Religion based on the spiritual teachings of Dharma, Karma, Reincarnation, and the Caste System.
What is Hinduism
What important technology/inventions came out of Zhou Dynasty
Builds roads, canals, and coins.
What is the main difference between religions that are Polytheistic and Monotheistic?
Polytheistic Religion is a religion with MANY Gods, meanwhile a Monotheistic Religion is a religion with ONE God
What was the overall purpose of King Hammurabi's Laws? (Daily Double)
To provide order, justice, and overall control of human behavior.
The whole purpose of the mummification was to prepare your body and soul for what?
The afterlife.
What was the main Hindu god?
Who was Shiva?
Which dynasty was the first to leave written records?
Who was the Shang Dynasty?
Explain to me what Cultural Diffusion is.
When 2 or more groups/ethnic groups of people share ideas, goods, foods, clothing, and cultural knowledge to help cultures fuse together.
What is the well known cliché that is derived from the Code of Hammurabi?
Eye for an Eye.
The day we covered Egypt, we completed that in-class reading together. In the reading it said that most Pharaohs wore a fake beard attachment on their chin. Why?
To resemble some of their Gods.
Indus Valley civilization is sometimes called?
What is the Harappan civilization?
Once a new dynasty was chosen to rule in China, the people who were picked went through a process called the Mandate of Heaven. If they were deemed fit to rule, they were given Divine Rule. What does this mean?
Not only are you physically fit to rule your people, but you have been given approval from the Gods, and have religious authority/superiority over all.
During the Old Stone Age, people are known for doing what modern day ritual with their dead community members?
Burying their dead.