Neolithic Revolution
Before farming was discovered, early human beings lived this type of lifestyle, where they wandered and never stayed in one place for very long.
What is nomadic?
The Mesopotamians lived in an area of land in the Middle East called what?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the river that flowed through ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This river flows through the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Indus River?
Which two rivers flowed through the land where the ancient Chinese lived?
What is the Yellow River and the Yangtze River?
The Sumerian people created the first known written language in human history, which was known as what?
What is cuneiform?
Though it was in an area that did not get a lot of rain, the Fertile Crescent remained a good place to settle and farm because of the presence of which two rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This was the type of material the ancient Egyptians used for many of their recordings and writings
What is Papyrus?
Which mountain range surrounds the northern part of the Indus Valley and isolates it from the surrounding area?
What is the Himalayas?
This was the first dynasty to rule over China from 1500-1027 B.C.
What is the Shang dynasty?
Any invention that makes your life more convenient or makes tasks easier to accomplish is known as what?
What is technology?
The Mesopotamians were polytheistic, and built temples to their many gods on top of huge structures that were called what?
What are ziggurats?
What was the purpose for the pyramids of Egypt? (2 purposes)
What is to bury their dead pharaohs and transform them into gods?
The geography of the Indus Valley is different than that of Mesopotamia and Egypt not only because of the Himalayan Mountains, but because it receives far more __________ per year than the other two regions.
What is rain?
This man wrote a book of moral codes which he believed the Chinese rulers, as well as common people, should obey.
Who is Confucius?
What does it mean to be polytheistic?
What is to believe in many gods instead of one?
Though it seems fair at first glance, why is Hammurabi's Code actually unfair?
Egypt was a _____________, which meant that they believed was not only a man, but also part deity.
What is a theocracy?
It is believed that the Indus people first showed up in the Indus Valley around 2500 B.C., right around the time that the ancient Egyptians were busy building these massive structures.
What are the pyramids?
When there was a change in power between dynasties, the Chinese believed that it was because the old dynasty had lost their blessing, which was known as what?
What is the Mandate of Heaven or Heaven's Mandate?
What is organized religion, a language/writing system, social structure(social classes), job specialization, system of government?
Hammurabi's Code is a collection of how many laws engraved on a giant black stone stele?
What is 282 laws?
What are two things that ancient Egyptian women were able to do that women in other civilizations were not?
What is own property, propose marriage, file for divorce, gain political status?
Name one of the two major cities of the Indus Valley civilization.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo Daro?
The Silk Road not only allowed for an exchange of goods between nations, but also an exchange of culture and ideas, which is known as what?
What is cultural diffusion?