global terms
Characteristics of Civilization
geography
religions
Civilizations
100
keeping information from excavation sites examining radiocarbon dating of artifacts
What is the job of an archaeologist?
100
The birthplace of governments with democratic principles.
What is Ancient Athens?
100
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the area known as Mesopotamia?
100
The text essential to the practice of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
100
Fertile soil, transportation and communication were all characteristics.
What are the characteristics of early river civilizations that developed along rivers (such as the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates and the Huang He)?
200
an economy in which people barter for goods and services
What is a traditional economy?
200
A code of harsh laws based on social classes meant to maintain order and control
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The temperature of a location can be partially determined by its distance from the equator.
What is the impact of the latitude of a location?
200
A belief system based on the four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path and nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
200
The concept of zero, the decimal system and medical advances.
What are some of the Gupta Empire's achievements?
300
Producing just enough food for a family to use.
What is subsistence agriculture?
300
The concept of government by laws, in which men were innocent until proven guilty.
What is Ancient Rome's major contribution?
300
Which geographic feature helped isolate China?
What is the Himalayan Mountains
300
Filial piety and the five relationships.
What is Confucianism?
300
A city-state with a military focus from Ancient Greece.
What is Sparta?
400
A social scientist who studies the production and exchange of goods and services.
What is an economist?
400
Egyptians and Sumerians separately developed these to communicate.
What is written language?
400
seasonal wind
What is a monsoon?
400
The belief system which emphasizes the development of harmony between humans and nature.
What is Taoism?
400
prosperity and a focus on the individual led to philosophy, and works of art and architecture.
What are characteristics of the Golden Age of Greece?
500
A surplus of food, permanent settlements that developed in river valleys, domestication of plants and animals, and job specialization.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
500
A government in which people have power through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
500
Both Italy and India are examples of this.
What is a peninsula?
500
The Golden Rule is a major belief of this religion.
What is Christianity?
500
Alexander the Great's conquests of Greece, Persia and Egypt led to the spread of this culture.
What is Hellenic culture?
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