Mesopotamia/Egypt
Name one of the city-states of Mesopotamia.
What are Sumer, Babylon, Er?
The stone age is divided in these two parts.
What is the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age also known as the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age?
The location for these civilizations.
What is Asia (Present-Day India/China)?
This is the Dynasty when writing first began.
What is the Shang?
Seasonal wet and dry winds shifting in direction during certain times of the year.
What are monsoons?
This is the main river for the Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
Name the scientists who study prehistory.
What are:
1. Anthropologists
2. Archaeologists
3. Paleontologists?
The name of the river for the Harappan civilization?
What is the Indus River?
This dynasty was the largest and wealthiest country in its time.
What is the Tang?
Individuals who practice a religion with more than one god.
What are Polytheist?
The rivers of the Mesopotamia/Sumerian civilizations.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is another name for the Neolithic Revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
These are the two important rivers of Ancient China.
What are the Huang He (Yellow) & Yangtze Rivers?
What is Paper and Ink, Compass, and Gunpowder?
This is the direction in which the Nile flows.
What is South to North?
This is the name for this region describing the richness in its soil and shape of Mesopotamia/Sumer.
What is the Fertile Crescent (Middle East)?
Describe the lifestyle for the Old Stone Age and New Stone Age.
What is the Old Stone Age was primarily hunters and gathers and nomadic while the New Stone Age is agriculturally-based and permanently settled?
These are 2 challenges faced by the Harappan Civilization.
What are unpredictable rivers and strong winds/monsoons?
What is the Qin?
This is supported by Hinduism as a way to structure society in certain strict social groups first seen in the Harappan civilization.
What is the Caste System?
Name a solution to the challenges of city-states in the Mesopotamia.
What are:
1. Irrigation ditches
2. Built city walls with mud bricks
3. Traded with people around them for products they lacked?
Name some pros and some cons for settling in a community.
What are pros being common culture expressed, mutual protection, farming together, grain and seed storage and
cons being diseases spread easily, grain storages tempting to raids, and permanent settlements suffer possible natural disasters?
Describe the Mandate of Heaven.
What is the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the heavens/God to rule?
This is the dynasty for the age of philosophers: Confucius and Mencius.
What is the Zhou?
What is:
1. Father and son/child
2. Ruler and subject
3. Elder brother and younger brother
4. Husband and wife
5. Friend and friend?