Neolithic Age
The major change that began the neolithic age.
What is agriculture?
One city within Indus River Valley.
What is Mohenjo-Daro or Harappa?
Nickname for Mesopotamia
What is the land between two rivers, fertile crescent, or the cradle of civilization.
Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
Religion where 1 god is worshipped.
What is monotheism?
An abundance of food that can support a civilization.
What is a food surplus?
Name of the people of the Indus River Valley civilization.
What is the Harappans?
Two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Buried within the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who is King Khufu?
Patriarch of the Israelites.
Who is Abraham?
The formation of different jobs.
What is specialization?
Part of IRV city where the upper class resides, where grain is stored, and where religious practices are.
King who created the first law code.
Who is King Hammurabi?
Ruler of ancient Egypt who expanded Egypt's power through trade.
Led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
Reason written language emerges in early civilization.
What is record keeping for trade?
Ritual pool found in Mohenjo-Daro.
What is the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro?
What are The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Drove the Hyksos out of Egypt.
Who is Prince Ahmose?
Group of Canaanites that invented the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Criteria for a civilization.
What is 1) Near a river 2) Food surplus 3) specialization with social classes 3) Written Language 4) Government 5) Religion/ shared beliefs 6) cities?
Waterproof bricks with indoor plumbing, sewage system, streets in grid pattern with city blocks.
Five innovations, inventions, or firsts from Mesopotamia.
What are Cuneiform - first written language. Gilgamesh - first literature, wheel, plow, 12 month calendar, first iron weaponry, first library?
All of the natural barriers that surround Egypt.
Nile Delta, Nile cataracts, Sahara Desert, Eastern Desert
Warrior leaders of the Israelites upon return to Canaan.
Who were the Judges?