Neolithic Revolution
Types of tools developed in the Neolithic Era that did not exist in the Paleolithic period.
What are tools of metal (cooper/tin)?
The name of TWO rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The act of getting one's food by killing wild animals and collecting wild fruit, vegetable, and nuts.
What is hunting and gathering?
The two present-day countries that the Indus Valley runs through.
What is India and Pakistan
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
Social scientists that study physical artifacts of culture. They would look at the objects found of Otzi to research his lifestyle/status.
What are archeologists?
The earliest territory (cradle of civilization) in the world between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and stretching to the Nile River in Egypt.
What is Fertile Crescent?
An extinct species of human that had a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. Some of us share their DNA.
What are Neanderthals?
A weather pattern involving high winds and heavy rains that impacted the Indus Valley.
What is a Monsoon?
Bones and Turtle shells that were used to divine the future by reading the cracks.
What is Oracle Bones?
“The New Stone Age”, when humans first started farming and settling down.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Law code of the Sumerians; first written law code in human history; “eye for an eye”.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What is a nomad?
One of the aspects of organization that was displayed in the Indus Valley civilizations city-states.
What is...
- Plumbing, Great Bath, Wells, Granary, grid-pattern for streets, etc.?
A metal made from cooper and iron that was used in the Shang Dynasty to produce vessels, chariots, and weapons.
What is Bronze?
Cities, central government, organized religion, social classes, architecture, writing are all major aspects of this.
What is a Civilization?
Pyramid like structures in Mesopotamia that served religious and political purposes.
What is Ziggurats?
The name Louis and Mary Leakey gave to the skeleton they discovered that suggests human beings first appeared in the Great Rift Valley.
The field of study where people learn about the development of early human beings. This field has not been able to decipher the writing on Indus Valley objects.
What is Anthropology?
Providing offerings, sacrificing, and asking questions of past-away family members spirits they believed to be in nature.
What is Ancestor Worship?
The taming and use of animals for human use.
What is domestication?
Earliest writing system; first developed in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
Continent and location (BOTH) where the first hominids appeared.
What is the Great Rift Valley, Africa?
The TWO major cities of the Indus valley civilization. It had 35,000+ inhabitants. It emerged between 3000 BC and 1500 BC.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
The other major river in China that influenced early dynasties (not the Yellow River (Huang He)).
What is the Yangtze River?