Neolithic Revolution
People who moved from place to place to find shelter/food
What are nomads?
The area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
The other name for Egyptian kings
What are pharaohs?
Seasonal winds and rain that help/harm crops
What are monsoons?
One of the factors of a civilization
Where civilizations were developed near
What are rivers?
The main change that resulted after the Neolithic Revolution.
What is producing their own food (farming); creating permanent villages; domesticating animals?
The Southeastern tip of Mesopotamia; 12 different city-states
What is Sumer?
Cemeteries that were built during the Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt (the Great Pyramids of Giza are an example of these)
What are necropolises
A nomadic group of people who migrated to the Indus River valley. Warrior-like people who fought with bows and arrows
What are the Aryans?
Features of organized government
What is:
Coordinating production of large amounts of food
Large projects (dams, canals, walls)
Government officials help run the civilization
Taxes, laws, maintain defenses
Political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands/villages
What is a city-state?
The belief that the world is full of spirits relating to animals, objects, or dreams.
What is animism?
The king of Babylon that brought Mesopotamia under control of one empire. Also contributed a set of laws that he wrote down on stone tablets.
Who is Hammurabi?
The writing system of the Ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
Social system in which land=power
What is a feudalism?
Features of complex religions
What is:
Polytheistic - gods control nature, births, deaths, war, harvests, etc.
Appease gods through ceremonies/rituals, building temples, and making offerings/sacrifices
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one group of people to another
What is cultural diffusion?
Name one PUSH factor and one PULL factor that could have affected people during the Neolithic Revolution.
Push Factors:
What is lack of food, lack of water, lack of shelter, war, disease, etc.
Pull Factors:
What is surplus of food, water, better shelter, etc.
The earliest writing form that was invented in Sumer
What is cuneiform?
The people who would extract the body's organs before the process of mummification could begin
What are embalmers?
Confucius's filial piety teaching described this, it is the first rule in Confucianism and it is placed above all other duties
What is respect for one's parents over everything?
Features of arts & architecture
What is:
Temples & palaces
Rulers order the construction of these to remind people of their power
Decorate with paintings
Statues of gods/goddesses
The 4 river valleys/4 civilizations
What are the Sumer, Indus, Egypt, and Shang - Tigris/Euphrates, Indus, Nile, Huang He?
Neolithic Revolution inventions/changes/new ideas for government
What are calendars, council of elders, men dominating family life, smooth axe heads, clay pottery, cloth from animal hair fibers, etc.
The set of laws the Hammurabi created to govern Babylon
What is Hammurabi's code?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The religion where the main principle include living in harmony with nature
What is Daoism?
Features of public works and writing
What is:
Public Works:
Irrigation systems, roads, bridges, defensive buildings
Costly, both with money/worker's lives
Writing:
Varied in appearance, structure, and purpose
First variations were pictures
Scribes
Less fertile lands that nomadic herders raised cattle, sheep, and goats
What is the steppe?