Themes
Irrigation, Agriculture, Natural Resources
What is Interaction with the Environment?
Mesopotamia relied on two rivers
What is the Euphrates river and Tigris river?
Triangle shaped area of land made of silt left by the river, very fertile
What is a Delta?
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras, and the Untouchables
What is Caste System/Varnas?
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
What are Dynasties?
The shape of ALL economic, political, and social systems over time. Civilizations are KNOWN for their specific contributions.
What is Culture and Intellectual Development?
The process of making plants and animals useful
What is Domestication?
the METHOD of preserving a body for the afterlife
What is Embalming?
What is a natural/protective barrier?
the two religious philosophies that arose during this time period
What is Confucianism and Taoism/Daoism?
The foundations of different states and their interactions beyond their respective states. The study of how a state emerges, expands, and collapses.
What is State formation, Expansion, and Conflict?
the earliest surviving major work of literature
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Rosetta Stone made it possible for historians to do this
Vedas, the holy text of hinduism contained these
Fortified walls that protected against nomadic invaders
Humans face challenges through social systems, which include civic, economic, and social actions.
What is Social Systems and Order?
282 paragraphs of strict laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
- first female pharaoh
- increased trade
- increased imports and exports
- built monuments and temples
Developed the Caste System
Who are the Aryans?
A 4,000 mile long trade route that connected India to the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Silk Road?
What is Global Exchange?
The US supreme court building has this painted on the wall
Who is king Hammurabi?
Queen Hatshepsut, Ramses the Great, and Pharaoh Menes all played a huge part in the ___________ of Ancient Egypt.
What is Global Exchange?
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