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The New Stone age where people learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops and raise animals
Neolithic Age
The form of writing that was formed by the Sumerians that consisted of symbols.
Cuneiform
These often depicted images of daily life and hunting activities.
cave paintings
This means to worship more than one god.
Polytheism
Samurai could be both men and women
true
to worship one god only.
monotheism
The First humans who walked upright.
hominids
What kind of government did the Romans have?
Republic
This area provided some of the best farming in Southwest Asia, was nicknamed “the fertile crescent.
mesopotamia
The first civilizations were often found by rivers that flooded yearly.
True
The process of dying and being reborn again.
reincarnation
The code of honor that a Samurai lived by.
bushido
What type of Polis was Sparta?
military
Created by the Sumerians, the pyramid shaped temple called the “mountain of God” is called a
ziggurat
Nomads were highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging, or searching for food.
true
Men who were searching for the “truth” about life
philosophers
The period of time where the culture in Greece was a mix between Greek, Egyptian, Persian, Indian influences
Hellenistic era
The rise and fall of dynasties is called
the dynastic cycle
In Greece, the city-state was called a
polis
Egyptians believed that once their Pharaohs died, they were buried and never able to reach the afterlife.
false
A form of writing that combined pictures and symbols that the Egyptians used.
Heiroglyphics
Rival warlords in China surrounded themselves with bodyguards or loyal warriors called
Samurai
Siddhartha Gutama, the founder of Buddhism believed that one could reach nirvana, or the release from suffering and pain by following the
eightfold path
During the Babylonian empire, a uniform code of laws that unified the diverse groups of people within the empire was called
the code of Hammurabi
Empires brought different cities and independent states together under the power and control of multiple rulers.
false