Origins of Civilization
The belief that spirits inhabited animals, plants, or other natural objects
What is Animism
The first civilization in south Asia
The Indus Civilization
This environmental challenge in Sumerian civilization turned soil into dust, and created famine
What is droughts
The name for people who move around from place to place without settling
Who are Nomads
Games in Greece to show strength of a city state
What is The olympics
This was the greatest change of way of life until the industrial revolution
What is the Neolithic Revolution
This religion has no major founder or sacred text and evolved over 3500 years ago
What is Hinduism
The first great city states ever developed
What are Ur and Uruk
Maize
What is corn
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The theory that first all people lived in Africa and then migrated to other areas
The other name for Siddhartha Gautama
Ziggurats in Sumer are building that are
What are Large Pyramid Temples
The religion of the Aztec, Inca and Mayan people
What is polytheistic
The hilltop of a city state
What is Acropolis
Because of this, people could stay in one place instead of hunting and gathering
What is domesticating animals
The complex system of social groups in Indian society. People are born into it and it rarely changes
What is the Caste System
Ancient Egypt is set in this geographic area
What is the Nile River Valley
Payments of conquered people
What are Tributes
These people ran the family estates in Sparta
Who were women
Tigris/Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Yellow
What are the four river valleys
People settled in river valleys and depended on this to have fertile land
What is flooding
The kingdom in Egypt which was turbulent and filled with corruption and rebellion
What is the Middle Kingdom
These people settled in the Mississippi River Valley
Who are Mississippians
The most powerful Olympian, has children Ares, Aphroditie and Athena
Who is Zeus
What is Polytheistic
Buddha fasted and meditated by a tree for 2 years seeking the purpose of life
What is Enlightenment
Gods 2 promises to Abraham
What are god chose the Israelites and the Promised Land
Philip II son who wanted to conquer the Persian Empire
Alexander the Great
War between Athens and other greeks who resented them. Athens gets defeated by Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War
A person who writes down things for nobles
Who are scribes
This was built under Shi Huangdi, but was mostly a demonstration of strength
What is the Great Wall of China
Ancient Israelites had a unique belief system that differed from most because they were
What is monotheistic
During this era more than 6 million jews died.
Holocaust
Martin Luther King Jr