Early Humans
Two hikers discovered this frozen body in a glacier on the Otzal Alps in Italy.
What is Otzi the Iceman?
Original use for Cuneiform
What is business records?
The way the Nile river flows
What is south to north
The importance of monsoons in India (positive & negative)
What is agriculture & floods?
Resulted in early humans planting the foods and raising animals that were most useful for their survival.
What is domestication?
Hammurabi created these
What is written law codes?
The purpose of living along the Nile river
What is could not depend on rainfall.
Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva represent 3 things.
What is creation, preservation, and destruction.
Historians believe that a frozen land bridge along this allowed early humans to migrate from Asia to North America during the Ice Ages.
What is the Bering Strait?
Group of people responsible for creating one of the first versions of the alphabet
What is the Phoenicians?
The purpose of pyramids filled with gold, jewelry, and other valuable possessions of the pharaoh.
What is the afterlife
The ultimate life goal for a person who practices Hinduism
What is life is an illusion and reunite the atman with Brahman.
It is difficult to know for sure what happened during this time period since there are no written documents from that time.
What is prehistory?
Tools scribes used to write in cuneiform
What is reed stylus & clay tablet?
Historians use this to decode hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta stone
The founder of Buddhism
What is Siddhartha Gautama
The idea of humans living together in this can be traced back to early communities of hunter-gatherers during prehistoric times.
What is society?
Phoenicia’s geography did not include much farmland or resources, so they used this.
What is land and sea routes?
Position in Egypt’s social hierarchy that included builders, carpenters, jewelers, metalworkers, painters, sculptors, and stonecutters
Name 4 varnas in India’s social hierarchy.
What is Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra.