Prehistory
What does BCE and CE stand for?
Must get both right.
What is Before Common Era and Common Era.
What TWO rivers did Mesopotamia settle between?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the belief in and worship of many gods?
polytheism
Name two city-states that joined together to fight the Persians
What is Athens and Sparta.
What was a network of trading routes that united the West and the East
What was the Silk Road.
Who are nomadic people who eat animals and wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
Who are hunter-gathers
What law system is known for "eye for an eye" punishments?
What is Hammurabi's Code.
The Nile River flows from ________ to _________.
What are the names of the two social classes in Rome.
DAILY DOUBLE: Which one is the upper class and which one is the lower class.
What religion influenced the social structure of Ancient India?
What is Hinduism.
What allowed people to settle in one place?
What is farming or the Agricultural Revolution.
What was the writing called that Mesopotamia developed?
What is cuneiform?
From top to bottom, what is the correct order of the social structure of ancient Egypt?
priests
scribes
merchants
farmers
pharaoh
What is pharaoh, priests, scribes, merchants, farmers
What two types of government did Rome have?
What is a republic and a dictatorship (Empire).
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
What is the belief the emperor is instated by Heaven. Dynasties could lose the Mandate of Heaven if the emperor was not popular with the people, and could be overthrown and replaced with a new dynasty and emperor who had the Mandate of Heaven
What is a form of relocation involving a permanent move to a new location.
What is migration?
What is the process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
What is irrigation
How did the Egyptians demonstrate religion was important to their society?
Pharoah and Priest were upper class
The wealthy spent money on mummification
The pharoahs build pyramids to ensure their path to the afterlife
Why did Greece eventually fall to Macedonia?
The Peloponnesian Wars weakened the city-states economically and militarily.
What was legalism and which Chinese Emperor used it to establish order?
What is the belief humans are bad and need strict laws to be good.
Emperor Qin
Why did people migrate?
What is to follow their food source and/or escape cold weather
How did writing advance civilization?
Laws were able to be communicated and spread
Trade increased with records of sales
Relationships between civilizations grew
What three bodies of water boarder or run through Ancient Egypt?
What are
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Red Sea
Name 5 reason why Rome fell.
What is
-spread of Christianity, inflation, too large of borders, hired foreign soldiers, unstable government leaders, desire to live in luxury(not have children)
How did Hinduism impact the social structure of India?
Hinduism believed the karma of one's past life determined the caste. To move up in the social structure you had to do your dharma (caste's job) well.