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Early Civilizations Thrive
You Built What?
Notable Vocab
Hodge Podge
100
Map 1
What is Egypt?
100
Home and family are at the center of life
What is early China (or Chinese civilization)?
100
Ishtar Gate
Who were the Chaldeans?
100
Salt build up in the fertile soil
What is salinization?
100
Humans are believed to have originated here
What is Africa?
200
Map 2
What is China?
200
Improved farming techniques resulted in this
What is food surpluses (leading to trade and economic growth)?
200
Pyramids and Luxor Temple
Who were the Egyptians?
200
Belief in multiple Gods
What is polytheism (or polytheistic)?
200
The first code of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
Map 3
What is Sumer?
300
2 of the 5 characteristics of a civilization
What is Trade/Economy Government Social Organization Writing Innovations and Technology
300
Ziggurats and the wheel
Who were the Sumerians or Mesopotamian's?
300
Official record keeper
What is a scribe?
300
Flooding, Volcanoes or another natural catastrophe is believed to have ended them
Who were the Indus Valley civilizations?
400
Map 4
What is India?
400
Migrated from Russia to modern-day Turkey
Who were the Hittites and Aryans?
400
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who were the Chaldeans?
400
Silt deposit carried by the wind
What is loess?
400
Helped scholars decipher the ancient Egyptian hoeroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Map 5
What is the Ganges River?
500
Used governors and an infrastructure to maintain control. Developed the world's first postal service
What is the Persian Empire?
500
Cities laid out in precise grids with streets as straight as rulers
Who were the Indus River Valley peoples?
500
Religion practiced by the Persian royal family
What is Zoroastrianism?
500
New Kingdom Pharaoh that demanded his people practice a new monotheistic religion?
Who was Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten)?
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