Early Mankind
Continent where humans first appeared
What is Africa?
The people of Mesopotamia lived in these
What are city-states?
The Egyptian people depended on this for their agriculture and their entire civilization
What is the Nile River?
The religion that believed in one god, the exodus from Egypt, and being the chosen people
What is Judaism?
What is Athenian Democracy?
Time when humans survived on hunting and gathering
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The place where the first civilization appeared, named so because of its land
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The structures created for the burial of Egyptian Pharaohs
What are the pyramids?
The philosophy that dictated the behavior of upper class citizens in Ancient China
What is Confucianism?
The administrators of the Persian Empire
What are satraps?
The significant development from hunting and gathering to growing crops for food
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The first attempt at a legal code, consisting of examples of judgements given by the ruler over the Babylonian Empire
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The idea that the Pharaohs were chosen by the gods to rule
What is divine kingship?
The structure of Olmec civilization could best be described as this
What are, major urban centers/city states/limited area of control? (Anything besides an empire)
What is trade/commerce?
The end of this event prompted the Great Settling Down
The name of the writing system used by the Mesopotamians
What is cuneiform?
The writing system of the Egyptians, which they used for record keeping as well as different forms of literature
What are hieroglyphics?
The reason we know very little about the Indus Valley civilization
What is, their writing system was never deciphered?
What caused the decline of Mycenaean Greece
What is, we have no idea?!
This tool led to the proliferation of agricultural cultivation
What is the hoe?
The first work of literature that indicated the existence of a corrupt government and society in Mesopotamia
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Egypt did not have a formalized one of these, unlike Mesopotamia
What is a social hierarchy?
The structure of the Zhou Dynasty of China, similar to that of later European civilizations of the Middle Ages
What is feudal/feudalism?
Walled enclosures where thousands of urns containing the burned bones of sacrificed children
What are tophets?