First Peoples
The period of time where nomads moved place to place to find food.
What is Paleolithic?
What is cuneiform?
Ancient Egypt sat along what river
What is the Nile?
Which was a major city in the Indus River valley region?
What is Harappa?
In Ancient China, the balance of two forces
What is yin-yang?
The period of time were artisans and merchants created and traded items
What is Neolithic?
What is polytheistic?
The system of writing in Ancient Egypt that included pictures and symbols
What is Hieroglyphics?
What geographic feature protected the Indus River Valley’s Northern region?
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
What type of writing did the Shang Dynasty use?
What is (a) social structure (b) stable food supply (c) written language/records
The oldest legal system known
What is Hammurabi's Code
Ancient Egyptian built large pyramids to function as this
What is a tomb?
Lowest level group of the caste system
Who are The Untouchables?
This was a valuable resource to ancient Chinese economy.
What is silk?
An amount of food left over after requirements have been met.
What is a surplus?
The name "Mesopotamia" means
What is "the land between two rivers"
The king and his royal family were at the top of the social order; directly under them were..
What are priests and military commanders?
A Sanskrit term meaning the way of righteous conduct
What is dharma?
The pattern of the rise and fall of ruling families in early China.
What is the dynastic cycle?
Describe the Neolithic Revolution
What is the change when people stopped hunting and gathering and started growing food and domesticating animals
The boomerang-shaped region of the present day Middle East, named for its rich soil
What is Fertile Crescent?
What are Hebrews?
What are organized, grid-like layout with sewage systems?
Describe the Mandate of Heaven
The ancient Chinese belief that Heaven, the generalized forces of the cosmos, chooses the rightful ruler who rules as long as Heaven believes him to be worthy.