Module 1 // Human Origins
The greatest cause of the Paleolithic migration.
What is a new food source?
These two geographical features provided fertile land in the Mesopotamian area.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This geographical feature contributed to the development of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Where Israelites were kept as slaves.
What is Egypt?
The Hindu caste system is different from a social class because of this.
What is being born into a social class?
Population increases, civilizations develop; this happened in between those events.
What is cities emerge?
Mesopotamia was where these first developed.
What are civilizations?
This person is at the top of the social hierarchy.
Who is the Pharaoh?
This person led the Exodus through the Red Sea.
Who is Moses?
Who is Rama?
This source of energy was a turning point in world history.
What is fire?
New weapons and war strategies were lasting impacts of this person's rule.
Who is Sargon?
This is a ruling family.
What is a Dynasty?
Laws handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.
What are the 10 Commandments?
Hindus and Buddhists both believed in these two things.
What are karma and reincarnation?
Because of a food surplus, not everyone had to farm, which meant that they could have this.
What is a specialized job?
This is the person at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
What is a slave?
These were built to serve as places where the Pharaohs could live eternally.
What are the pyramids?
This person created the temple.
Who is King Solomon?
The feature of the Hindu Arabic numeral system that was a big improvement.
What is zero?
This is the science of extracting metal from ore and creating useful objects.
What is metallurgy?
These were built as temples to honor the gods and goddesses.
What are ziggurats?
This is where you go when you die.
What is the afterlife?
This event occurred when Rome exiled the Jews from Israel.
What is the Diaspora?
The effect that the battle of Kalinga had on Emperor Ashoka.
What is becoming a Buddhist?