PHYSICAL FEATURES
ELEMENTS OF A CULTURE
NEOLITHIC AGE
EARLY CIVS.
ODDS & ENDS
100
A great place to begin a civilization
What is a river valley?
100
The communication system of a culture.
What is language?
100
Archaeologists have found evidence that the earliest ancestors of man were located here.
What is (East) Africa?
100
A system of writing would be a result of which Age?
What is Neolithic?
100
The writing system of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
200
These separate cultures -such as India and China.
What are mountains?
200
The government and laws of a culture.
What is politics?
200
The establishment of villages and the rise of governments is a result of this revolution.
What is Neolithic Revolution?
200
The area of fertile soil in the desert Middle East-from Sumer to the coast of the Med. Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The river valley of China.
What is Huang He (Yellow R.)?
300
This made it hard for Russia to trade year round.
What is ice?
300
The way a culture gets the things it needs.
What is economy (economics)?
300
The family of archaeologists who found earliest man in Africa.
What is the Leakey's?
300
Sumer and Mesopotamia were located in this river valley.
What are Tigris-Euphrates?
300
Two main urban centers of India's river valley civ.
What are Mohenjo Daro and Harappa?
400
These fertile lands often attract invaders.
What are plains?
400
The traditions of a culture.
What are customs?
400
The name given to the earliest remains in East Africa by the Leakey's.
What is Lucy?
400
Hieroglyphics, pyramids, Pharaohs
What are things from Egypt or the Nile river valley?
400
Cultures spreading from one place to another through trade, war, or travel.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
These often provide good transportation routes.
What are rivers?
500
The organized beliefs and rituals of a culture.
What is religion?
500
The two periods that preceded the Neolithic Age.
What are the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods?
500
"If a tooth of a nobleman is knocked out, the perpetrator shall have one of his teeth pulled out."
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
500
This river valley was affected by mountains, rivers, and monsoons.
What is Indus River Valley?
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