Vocab
Hot Mess-O-Potamia
The Shang
Egypt
Indus River Valley Civ.
100
A scientific field in which someone studies the past
What is anthropology?
100
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The Shang is an example of this, a ruling family.
What is a dynasty?
100
The early Egyptians built these structures as tombs for their great leaders.
What are Pyramids?
100
Seasonal winds that brought a lot of rain to India.
What are monsoons?
200
A person who moves from place to place.
What is a nomad?
200
Most of the people who lived in Mesopotamia worshiped many gods, also known as this term.
What is polytheism?
200
The Shang often worshiped this group of people.
What are ancestors?
200
Egyptian civilization was formed along this major river.
What is the Nile?
200
One of the two major Indus River Valley cities we discussed.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo Daro?
300
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
Hammurabi's code, the first recorded set of laws, favored this group of individuals.
What is higher social classes?
300
The Shang developed between these two rivers.
What are the Yellow (Huang He) and Yangtze?
300
Egyptian government can be described using this term, implying a society ruled by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
300
Major trade good of the Indus River Valley Civilization.
What is Cotton?
400
Belief system in which everything in nature has a spirit, It was the belief system of early people.
What is animism?
400
Mesopotamia was made up of these, political units with their own governments.
What is a city state?
400
The Shang used these items to ask their ancestors questions.
What are oracle bones?
400
Egyptian system of writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
400
In India, your caste was determined by this.
What is Birth?
500
Title given to the shift from hunting and gathering (nomadic life) to the domestication of plants and animals (farming).
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
500
Sumerian System of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
500
The Shang were located in this modern country.
What is China?
500
Granite slab that allowed historians to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphics into modern language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Wet location, possibly used for large scale baptisms, maybe contributed to hygiene at Mohenjo Daro.
What is the Great Bath?
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