The Stone Age
These two ages make up the Stone Age
What are the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age?
The first cities in Ancient Mesopotamia appeared in this southern region
What is Sumer?
This was one shocking religious ritual the Shang practiced when they built a new royal house
What is human sacrifice?
The organization of Sumerian society into upper, middle, and lower classes is an example of this element of civilization
What is social structure?
South Sudan became a country in this year
What is 2011?
In the Paleolithic Age, people depended on this method of obtaining food
What is hunting and gathering?
Sumerians had to build complex _______ systems to help them control the water supply to their crops
What is irrigation?
This is the name of the group that rose up against the Shang Dynasty and took power in 1045 BCE
What is Zhou?
Without this element, none of the other ones would exist
What is stable food supply?
Egypt is on this continent
What is Africa?
Because wild areas have a limited supply of food, Paleolithic people lived this sort of lifestyle
What is nomadic?
Besides the wheel, Mesopotamians were the first to invent this farming tool that made planting easier
What is the plow?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized the importance of relationships between older and younger relatives as a way to learn how to correctly live life
What is Confucianism?
In the Shang Dynasty, ancestor worship was their __________
What is religion?
This element of civilization is most dependent on (or related to) the geography of a region
What is stable food supply?
The Neolithic Age ended when people learned how to do this
What is make tools out of metal instead of stone?
When living in the northern region, Mesopotamians in the foothills suffered from this, leading them to move to the south
What are food shortages?
This is the gemstone the Shang thought represented kindness and wisdom
What is jade?
In Ancient Mesopotamia, their development of the plow is an example of this element of civilization
What is technology?
This ancient civilization that we haven't studied yet is home of the original Olympics
What is Ancient Greece?
These are two of the four positive effects of farming (hint: NOT elements of civilization)
What are making permanent shelters, establishing communities, developing new jobs, and beginning to trade?
These are the two rivers that Mesopotamia lies between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This was the founder of Legalism who named a book of Legalist teachings after himself
Who is Hanfeizi or Han-fei-tzu?
These government officials had the job of recording laws in writing in Ancient Sumer
What are scribes?
One way that VIDA Sharks are like ancient peoples is that we are both focus on _____________, designing, and creating
What are innovating?