Thinking like a Historian
River Valley Civilizations
Technology & Culture
Belief Systems
Geography
100
Archaeologists help historians by uncovering these, which can provide clues about life in early civilizations.
What are artifacts?
100
Location of earliest civilizations
What is a river valleys?
100
The Chinese built this to help keep invaders out.
What is the Great Wall of China?
100
This is the term for a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Name this trade route:
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
Pre-history is the time period before humans developed this form of communication.
What is written language?
200
The Fertile Crescent / Mesopotamia / Cradle of civilization arose in between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
The Egyptians and Mesopotamians used this to bring water from the river to their crops.
What is irrigation?
200
Karma, yoga, atman, and the caste system are associated with this religion.
What is Hinduism?
200
Egyptian civilization depended on the flooding and irrigation of this river.
What is the Nile.
300
This was a transformation in world history when people domesticated plants & animals and learned to farm.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
This was the first form of writing, and used wedge shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is cunieform?
300
Name this technology.
What is a shaduf?
300
This religion was founded by a Hindu prince. Followers accept the Four Noble Truths and follow the Eightfold Path in hopes of achieving nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
300
These winds are responsible for severe weather changes on the Indian subcontinent.
What are monsoons?
400
These sources are particularly useful to historians because they provide a first hand account of events.
What are primary sources?
400
Wrote the first code of laws.
Who King Hammurabi?
400
Early Indian thinkers invented this mathematical concept.
What is zero?
400
These were stepped temples built by the Sumerians to their gods.
What are Ziggurats?
400
This city was built by King Solomon as the capital of Judea. it is located in present day Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
500
This Chinese belief system is interesting to historians because it helps explain the stability in Chinese government and social order.
What is Confucianism?
500
Most early civilizations had this type of belief system.
What is polytheistic?
500
Name the empire where this artifact was located
Where is Babylon?
500
Followers of the Ten Commandments
Who are Jewish and Christians?
500
This mountain range serves as a natural boundary between India and China.
What are the Himalayas?