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geography
religions
Civilizations
100
keeping information from excavation sites examining radiocarbon dating of artifacts
What is the job of an archaeologist?
100
The total learned heritage of a people
What is culture?
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
Another word for farming
What is agriculture?
200
_________ ___________ occurs more quickly in cultures that come into frequent contact with other societies.
What is cultural diffusion?
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
Growing just enough food to meet the needs of the immediate family, for its own use.
What is subsistence agriculture?
300
Which geographic feature helped isolate China?
What is the Himalayan Mountains
300
Filial piety and the five relationships, social order and political organization.
What is Confucianism?
300
In China and India, where this religion is practiced, it is taught that suffering can be lifted by letting go of selfish desire.
What is Buddhism?
400
A social class system in India, supported by the ideas of dharma and karma in Hinduism, that was outlawed in 1949.
What is the caste system?
400
Egyptians and Sumerians separately developed these to communicate.
What is written language?
400
Early River Civilizations formed near these because they helped to provide fertile soil, irrigation and transportation.
What is a river?
400
The belief system which emphasizes the development of harmony between humans and nature.
What is Taoism?
400
Peace, prosperity and progress
What are characteristics of a Golden Age?
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
This brought about the establishment of permanent settlements.
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
500
Both India and Italy are examples of this geographic feature.
What is a peninsula?
500
The Vedas
What is Hinduism's sacred text?
500
Government, writing, religion, different jobs, social classes, art, architecture, and cities.
What are some of the characteristics of a civilization?
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