Early Humans
What is a nomad?
A person who never settles and moves from place to place to find food since they had no where to go.
What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
It is located on Asia.
How did the Nile affect life in Ancient Egypt?
It helped them farm, bathe, trade, travel, drink, and protection.
What kept India isolated?
The mountains along the northern border and bodies of water.
Why was Julius Caesar killed?
People believed he was getting to powerful and ruled like a king for to long.
What is domestication and how did it help them?
Domestication is training an animal to do certain jobs like heavy farm work and they were and extra source of food.
Name some Sumerian inventions?
The Cuneiform, wheel and axle, plow, chariots, and sailboat, and bronze.
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa.
How was Mohenjo Daro planned?
The city was planned with streets and houses kind of close together they had a sewage system and indoor plumbing.
What was the role of the Senate?
To propose new laws and make them, the Senate was mostly made-up of the rich.
What is specialization?
A job someone does based on their skill set an example is, farmers, merchants, artisans, house builders.
What is the Fertile Crescent and where is it located.
It is located between the Tigris and Euphrates river it is called the Fertile Crescent since the land is very fertile.
What protected Egypt from invasions in the North, South, and East and West?
The delta marshes, cataracts, and the desert.
How did monsoons help people in Ancient India?
It gave them rain to help farm, and cold, dry air, summer monsoons brought warm wet air.
What kind of civilization was Rome not?
It was not a river valley civilization.
What marked the beginning of the Neolithic age?
Systematic Agriculture.
The first set of written laws were written by who?
Hammurabi.
What are the achievements of Narmer/ Menes?
He united Upper and Lower Egypt and established a dynastic rule.
These two world major religions began in India.
Hinduism, and Buddhism.
What would spread their ideas to the rest of the world?
Trading by boat.
When was fire created?
It was created during the paleolithic age but was controlled during the Neolithic age.
Writing was developed here.
Sumer.
Why did the people of Ancient Egypt study the stars?
To track time seasons and to help with travel, to predict flooding in the Nile.
What did Buddha believe?
He believed they had to give up all worldly desires to reach inner peace.
Name their characteristics.(GRAPES)
G:Mountainous terrain
R:Polytheistic
A:Their building skills/Colloseum
P:Senate or consuls
E:Trade by boat
S:Rich and Senate and consuls on top traders farmers and slaves on the bottom.