Vocabulary
A people’s unique way of life, as shown by its tools, customs, arts, and ideas?
What is Culture?
Irrigation systems, tools, weapons, and plumbing systems are all examples of?
What is Improved Technology?
What factors made the Neolithic Revolution a turning point?
What is farming and domesticating animals?
The earliest set of laws was?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Japan is a good example of what geographic feature?
What is an Archipelago?
What Social Scientist is known for studying the physical artifacts of a culture?
What is an Archaeologist?
What is monotheism? What is polytheism?
What is the belief in one god? what is the belief in more than one god?
How did people live their lives before the Neolithic Revolution?
What is Nomadic/Hunter Gatherers?
What is it called when a king is given his rule by divine approval but can be taken away when deemed that he is a cruel ruler?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What is a narrow strip of Land connecting two larger bodies of Land?
What is an Isthmus?
What is a form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money?
What is Barter?
A Ziggurat is a good example of?
What is Complex Institutions?
What is a result of the Neolithic Revolution?
Civilizations created what to obtain resources that were limited in their areas?
What is Trade?
South Korea, India, and Saudi Arabia are all located on what geographic feature?
What is a Peninsula?
What is a series of rulers that is passed throughout a family?
What is a Dynasty?
Civilizations developed a surplus of food following the Neolithic Revolution. What developed as a result of the food surplus?
What is a Specialized Worker?
A person that moves from place to place with no set home is an example of?
What is a Nomad?
One similarity between the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations is that they both created?
What is a Written Language?
What kind of map shows geographical features?
What is a Physical Map?
What is the belief that your culture is superior to other cultures?
What is Ethnocentrism?
What is the name of the Sumerian form of writing that uses hand carved wedge-shaped symbols?
What is Cuneiform?
The Neolithic Revolution led to the development of what?
What is a Civilization?
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Yellow River civilizations created a system that divided people up. What is this called?
What is Social Classes?
The Himalayan Mountains, Gobi Desert, Thar Desert, and the Deserts along the Nile led to a limit of what in early Civilizations?
What is Cultural Diffusion?