Digging Up The Past
Early Civilizations
Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Ancient China
Ancient India and Persia
100
What are archaeologists most interested in?
What are finding and analyzing ancient artifacts?
100
What technologies did the people of Mesopotamia develop?
What are cuneiform, irrigation, the wheel, and the plow
100
What did Egyptian farmers do during the time of the Nile's floods?
What is worked on pyramids
100
What color is the Huang river and why?
What is yellow because of loess
100
What are the main beliefs of Hindusism
What are brahman, dharma, and reincarnation
200
Where was evidence found that proved other people may have lived in the Americas before the Clovis people?
Where is Monte Verde, Chile and Topper Site, North Carolina?
200
Where did the first civilizations settle?
Where is southwestern Asia in a cresent shaped area
200
Name the months the Nile flooded.
When is between May and Septemeber
200
What is Confusius' first principle?
What is respect
200
What are some limitations to the caste system?
What are marriage,jobs, and dharma
300
What did cultures rely on to develop?
What are climate, landform, and natural resources?
300
How did early Mesopotamians get most of their food?
What is domestication and planting
300
Why is the Nile called the "Giver of Life"? "Taker of Life"?
What is because it provided Egyptians with water and fish. And why is because when it flooded it killed many people and damaged shelters.
300
What are the two parts of a climographs?
What are a bar graoh and line graph
300
What are some physical features found in South Asia
What are the Himalayas, Mount Everest, and the Indo- Ganges Mountains
400
Name three things that affect a cultures development
What are technology, customs, and beliefs?
400
What was the overall purpose of Hammurabi's Law Code?
What is to give structure to society and protect the people so the strong do not opress the weak.
400
What is unique about the Nile?
What is it flows northward and is 4,000 miles long
400
What dynasty reinforced the Great Wall of China?
What is the Ming Dynasty
400
What are the qualitites recommended by the Eightfold Path?
What are wisdom, morality,and meditation
500
What is another name for early agriculture and animal domestication?
What is the New Stone Age or Neolithoic Revolution
500
What information does a circle graph show?
What is the relationship between parts and a total
500
How were archaeologists able to decode hieroglyphics?
What is the Rosetta Stone
500
What dynasty had the first female ruler?
What is the Tang Dynasty
500
What are the Four Noble Truths of Buddhisim
What are: 1. Suffering is for life for all people 2. People suffer because they want so many things 3.If people can free themselves from wanting so many things, they will not suffer 4.People can free themselves from wants and from suffering by following the Eightfold Path
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