Geography and the Environment
The first civilizations all settled near this geographic feature.
What is a major river?
The early civilizations all needed this to grow their populations and develop cities and job specialization.
What is a surplus?
This process involves selecting and changing a wild plant or animal so that it can be grown or raised locally.
What is Domestication?
This terms refers to a system for ranking groups of people in a society, usually based on wealth, religion, ethnicity, or other factors...
What is a Social Hierarchy?
What is an Agrarian Society?
Meaning “between two rivers” in Greek, this early civilization was located in geographic region known as the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
Just like today, the early civilizations all faced this environmental phenomenon which contributed to their decline and collapse.
What is climate change?
This form of written language was made up of hundreds of small pictures carved on monuments and pottery, mostly for ceremonial and religious purposes.
What are Hieroglyphics?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This type of society is typically characterized by the belief in or worship of more than one god...
What is a polytheistic society?
This historical region includes parts of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula prior to the arrival of Europeans.
What is Mesoamerica?
This civilization established a system of city-states, built splendid pyramids and temples, and created a sophisticated calendar and number system before almost completely disappearing around 950 CE.
What is the Maya Civilization?
This process involves bringing in water from canals or other man-made means, rather than relying on rainfall alone.
What is a State?
The Silk Road was a series of important trade routes that connected remote cities and civilizations primarily across this continent...
What is Asia?
Domesticating local animals and clearing out forests to create farmland is an example of humans ______ their environment.
What is ADAPTING to or MODIFYING their environment?
Another word for "food scarcity," climate change, crop failures, and overpopulation often led to this disastor in a number of ancient civilizations.
What is a famine?
This system of writing helped scholars and historians decipher the language of ancient China and provided important information on the late Shang dynasty.
What are Oracle Bones?
Historians and archeologists found no evidence of kings or palaces in the remains their cities so it’s possible that this Civilization was run by a number of wealthy families rather than a central ruler.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
What is Babylon or Babylonia?
Farming in North Africa was possible because the Nile River’s annual flooding deposited this fertile, nutrient-rich soil on the riverbanks.
What is Silt?
In ancient China, dynasties often rose and fell. Once a new dynasty claimed power, the new ruler would typically claim that the previous dynasty had lost this title, meaning they lost the favor of the gods.
Hint: Hammurabi claimed something similar in Mesopotamia.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Ancient Egyptians developed a technique for making this common everyday object from a plant, found along the bank of the Nile.
Hint: Provide both the invention and its name derived from the plant.
What is Paper; Papyrus?
This political practice involves the negotiation between multiple states or governments.
What is diplomacy?
This major religion arrived in West Africa via trade and cultural diffusion, and eventually replaced animism and other indigenous practices as the dominant belief system in the region.
What is Islam?