Agriculture
This major shift from hunting & gathering to farming allowed humans to settle permanently.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This invention from China allowed ideas to spread more easily across regions.
What is paper?
A system where a king or queen rules & power is inherited.
What is a monarchy?
This term describes a society ranked into levels like elites, commoners, and enslaved.
What is a social hierarchy?
This famous trade route connected China to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Road?
Domestication of plants & animals led to this key result in societies.
What is food surplus?
This Chinese invention revolutionized navigation & helped martime trade/
What is the compass?
This system ruled by religious leaders was common in early civilizations.
What is a theocracy?
Common in India, this rigid system divided people into hereditary groups.
What is the caste system?
These seasonal winds made Indian Ocean trade possible.
What are monsoon winds?
This crop from the Andres supported large populations like the Inca.
*hint: it grows underground*
What is the potato?
Gunpowder was first developed in this country.
What is China?
This Chinese belief system justified rulers through the "Mandate of Heaven".
What is dynastic rule? or mandate system?
This group often held the most power in early civilizations besides rulers.
Who are priests (or religious elites)?
Gold & salt were major goods trade across this desert network.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade route?
This agricultural improvement in China led to rapid population growth during the Tang/Song era/
What is fast-ripening rice?
(Champa Rice)
This technology improved farming by allowing deeper soil turning.
What is the iron plow?
This political system gave power to citizens to vote directly.
What is a democracy?
In many societies, these roles were typically divided between men & women.
What are gender roles?
This concept refer to the exchange of goods, ideas, & culture between regions.
What is cultural diffusion?
This staple crop was central to Aztec agriculture & diet, often grown on chinampas.
What is maize (corn)?
This innovation made books cheaper & more widely available across Eurasia.
What is printing? (woodblock or movable type)
This empire used a centralized bureaucracy & civil service exams.
What is Imperial China?
This elite warrior class dominated feudal Japan.
Who are the samurai?
Trade networks helped spread not just goods, but also this major religion from India to East Asia.
What is Buddhism?