Early Man
What does Paleolithic mean?
Old stone
What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
Asia
Nile River
What river runs through Egypt?
What is the oldest religion started in India?
Hinduism.
Who were the three early Greek Philosophers? (S.P.A.)
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
How did people get their food in the Paleolithic Age?
Hunting and gathering
They were nomads they moved place to place when they ran out of food.
name Sumerian inventions.
Writing (Cuneiform), Wheel and axle, plow, bronze, and the sail boat.
Deserts
What protects Egypt in the east and west?
Filial Piety
What did Confucian believe in?
Who was Augustus? (Rome)
Leader who brought great improvement and peace to Rome. Rebuilt the city of Rome.
What does Neolithic mean?
New stone
What is the nickname of Mesopotamia?
The Fertile Crescent, or The Land Between Two Rivers.
Why are the Isrealites different from all of the other civilizations we learned about.
They are monotheistic. Believed in one god.
Are china or India peninsulas?
NO
Is Athens and Sparta in Greece or Rome
Greece
What is surplus?
A extra supply of something. More than is needed.
Are people from Mesopotamia monotheistic or polytheistic? Why?
polytheistic. they believe in multiple gods/goddesses.
Who united upper and lower Egypt?
Narmer/Menes
They had grid like streets and sewer systems.
Mohenjo-Daro was a well planned city. Explain.
How are Greece and Rome alike? Explain.
They believed in multiple gods/goddesses. (polytheistic) The gods/goddesses are the same but with different names. They have mostly mountainous terrain.
Describe the Neolithic Revolution.
Start of farming. People settled and started to have a surplus of food. They domesticated animals for help farming and food.
Who wrote the first law code? What was the name of the code? Were the punishments fair?
Hammurabi wrote it. It was called the Code of Hammurabi. The punishments are fair because if you poke someones eye out you get yours poked put. so it is a punishment that treats you how you treated others.
Africa
What continent is Egypt on?
Did Hinduism or Jainism believe in reincarnation?
Hinduism
Why was Julius Caesar killed?
He took away the Senates power. He ruled for to long. Senate was afraid of him taking their power away. they stabbed him even his best friend.