Vocabulary Terms
characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing.
What is Cuneiform
the part of the world that discovered metal tools first in Era 2
What is Afroeurasia?
the definition of nomadic
What is
having no fixed home and move from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land?
Written language of Ancient Egypt
What is Hieroglyphics
The reason it was important to be nice to the police in ancient Egypt
What is they would not be so quick to accuse you of something
writing system that uses symbols or pictures to denote objects, concepts, or sounds, originally and especially in the writing system of ancient Egypt
What is Hieroglyphics
the invention of technology that started the beginning of the social class system
What is the plow?
Definition of Pastoralism
what is
a way of life where a group of people survives from the secondary products of herds. People follow patterns of grazing to keep their herds alive?
Written language of Ancient Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform
The world zones in Era 2
Afroeurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Oceania
characterized by the rise and fall of kingdoms with strong monarchs, powerful militaries, rigid social hierarchies, growing cities/populations, and an increase of interaction within, across, and between farming societies and pastoral nomads.
What is ERA 2?
the reason the spread of bronze helped to change these ancient civilizations
What is because it was a harder metal and it lasted longer. It was able to endure harder surfaces for long periods of time.
an animal that the pastoral nomads used
what is horse, ox, donkey, sheep, etc.
Ancient Egyptians paid BLANK to their Pharaoh as a part of their economy
What is Tribute
the civilization that took the longest to develop
Oceania
Jared Diamond’s theory that some regions developed more rapidly and expanded and conquered much of the world because the natural resources available to them, climate, and geography gave them an early advantage into agriculture before people in other places.
What is geographic luck?
define smelting
what is getting metals out of ore?
a challenge the pastoral nomads encountered
What is taking care of their animals and making sure they were healthy (they were prone to disease and theft)
The person in charge of the household in Ancient Mesopotamia
Who is the women?
the four ancient river valley civilizations
what is Nile, indus, tigris and euphrates, yellow river
areas of the world that had lots of movement and interaction among the people who lived there, but that were not connected to other world zones
What is World Zones?
the six different types of technology that the early civilizations used
What is pottery, plows, irrigation, woven textiles, metallurgy, and wheels and wheeled vehicles?
Pastoral nomads moved around so much because..
what is they needed new grazing lands
the belief system for Ancient Egypt
what is Believing in the Pharaoh like he was a god
the world zone that discovered metal tools first
What is Afroeurasia