Another name for Mesopotamia is?
When there is too little of something.
What is Scarcity?
Something or someone with divine status, quality, or nature.
What is a Deity?
This religious text includes the Book of Job and the Book of Exodus?
What is the Old Testament?
Characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god.
What is a Polytheistic Religion?
One similarity found in both Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations is that each developed a
What is a written language?
This was the earliest known set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
One similarity between the pastoralists depicted in these images and early hunter-gatherers is that both communities developed.
What is tools and technologies to adapt to their environment?
Which river system is found in Mesopotamia?
What are Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
One of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The action or process of combining a number of things into a single more effective or coherent whole.
What is Consolidation?
This form of farming.
What is terrace farming?
Which geographic factor was most important to the development of the early river valley civilizations?
What is fertile soil?
The Sumerians invented this early form of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
Which geographic feature was common to the development of civilizations in ancient Egypt, China, India, and Mesopotamia?
What are river valleys?

All of these civilizations developed next to this Egyptian River.
What is the Nile River?
The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
What is Animism?
Characterized by the belief that there is only one God.
What is a Monotheistic Religion?

Humans first appeared on this continent.
What is Africa?
Tributary state had to do this.
What are "tokens" sent do the Superior State?
This time period was characterized by hunters and gatherers.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The system depicted in this image.
What are Hydrologic Systems?
Which geographic feature served as a barrier that protected ancient China and was used as an invasion route by the Aryans into ancient India?
What are mountains?
A specific set of organized beliefs and practices, usually shared by a community or group, also about the meaning of life and one’s purpose and existence.
What is Religious Beliefs?
The spread of ideas, culture, and trade.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by
What is building irrigation canals?

This form of farming.
What is intercropping?
The oldest Monotheistic religion.
What is Judaism?
During this period in history the domestication of animals and growing of crops first occurred.
What is Neolithic Revolution?
What is a popular acceptance of a government, political regime, or system of governance that is accepted?
A religious song or poem of praise to God or a god.
What is a Hymn?
China’s earliest civilizations developed in this region.
What is yellow river valley?
How did the introduction of agriculture affect early peoples?
What is civilizations developed?

This is an example of.
What is the Indian Caste System?
The meaning of Spirituality.
An individual practice about the meaning of life and one’s purpose and existence