Vocabulary 1
The most advanced stage of human social and cultural development.
What is a civilization?
Necessity is the creator of this.
What is invention?
The majority of the Chinese population at the time did this for their occupation.
What is farming?
Due to its location between rivers, Mesopotamia suffered often from these natural disasters.
What are floods?
A ruler in ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
Workers in a community assigned different specific jobs.
What is specialization?
Art created during this time was both "this" and sacred.
What is secular?
Only the elite classes participated in this practice because they had time to learn about it.
What is writing? (Also oracle bones)
Mesopotamia flourished during "this" age named for a type of metal.
What is Bronze?
The transition from small nomadic bands of people to larger settlements and early civilization.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Egyptian writing system created through the use of hieroglyphs.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Hittites introduced this new type of transportation to Mesopotamia involving horses.
What are chariots?
This dynasty replaced the Xia Dynasty.
What is the Shang?
Wedge-shaped characters used in ancient writing system.
What is cuneiform?
The spread of different cultures, including beliefs, food, music, tools, practices, technology, etc.
What is cultural diffusion?
A person who copies out documents before printing was invented.
What is a scribe?
Many inventions that were created in River Valley Civilizations have lasted to our day, including these examples.
What are writing, religion, philosophy, coins, dyed cloth, metal forming, etc.
This was the idea that there was only one legitimate ruler of China at a time and that ruler had God's blessing.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A collection of laws establishing Mesopotamian justice.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The process of taming animals for farms, or the use of a plant for farming/food.
What is domestication?
A government system led by divine guidance or officials who are divinely guided.
What is a theocracy?
Writing was a big new technology invented in these early civilizations, and this group of people invented the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
These were indicators of a lost Mandate in China.
What are wars, over-taxation, loss of morality, increased crime, banditry, etc.
Mesopotamia, when it came to religion, believed in multiple gods, also known as this.
What is polytheism?
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is a city-state?