The raising and adapting of wild plants and animals for human use
What is domestication
100
The belief in one god
What is monotheism
100
A form of ancient writing in which picture symbols represent sounds
What is hieroglyphics
100
In Hinduism, the totality of a person’s good and bad deeds and the way in which they affect that individual’s fate in the afterlife
What is karma
100
Method of learning through questions
What is Socratic method
200
Skilled crafts workers
What are artisans
200
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism
200
A government ruled by religious leaders who claim God’s authority
What is theocracy
200
The religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama, which teaches the Four Noble Truths and following the Eightfold Path
What is Buddhism
200
The process of making inferences
What is logic
300
Economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual
What is traditional economy
300
King of Babylon in 1792 BC; most famous for his code of laws known as Hammurabi’s Code
Who is Hammurabi
300
A granite stone found in 1799 that bears an inscription in hieroglyphics, demotic characters, and Greek; gave the first clue to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics
What is Rosetta Stone
300
Seasonal winds in India
What are monsoons
300
Clear and ordered thinking
What is reason
400
The period after the Stone Age, when people began to make items out of bronze
What is the Bronze Age
400
Sumerian writing
What is cuneiform
400
A highly structured organization, often governmental, managed by officials
What is bureaucracy
400
The Middle Way and part of the Four Noble Truths that the Buddha taught as the means to nirvana or enlightenment
What is Eightfold Path
400
Argued that people should use reason to help them learn about the world
Who is Aristotle
500
The buying and selling of food, raw materials, and finished products between regions
What is trade
500
The area that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southwest Asia
What is Mesopotamia
500
The process of preserving the body with chemicals after death
What is mummification
500
Collection of the thoughts of Confucius
What is Analects
500
Believed that only philosophers should lead governments, he did not support Athenian democracy