The opposite of creationism
What is evolution?
A period of time defined by the start of agriculture
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Man who created Babylonian legal text during 1755–1750 BC establishing harsh punishments for each law
Who was Hammurabi?
A system where your status is determined by birth
What is a caste system?
Pieces of oxen bone or turtle shell used by the civilization of the Shang to have questions answered by a higher power
What are oracle bones?
History before writing
What is prehistory?
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Earliest civilization founded by Sumerians
What was Mesopotamia/Sumer?
Rebirth of the aspect of an individual that persists after bodily death
What is reincarnation?
A Chinese philosopher who emphasized order through ethical, moral, and social standards
Who was Confucius?
Female Australopithecus found in the 20th century
Who was Lucy?
The spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages
What is cultural diffusion?
A ruler in Egypt
What was a pharaoh?
A collection of ancient Hindu texts
What is vedas?
Having authority to rule from heaven
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A method to estimate how old something is by seeing the amount of carbon in the organism
What is radiocarbon dating?
Civilizations often settled among these
What are rivers/bodies of water?
The wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
What was cuneiform?
Because of these in India, summers are wet and winters are dry
What are monsoons?
The final goal of Buddhism
What is nirvana?
Oldest fully intact body of a man
Who was IceMan?
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
What is a theocracy?
The young pharaoh who's body was found with golden treasures
Who was King Tut?
How a person lives in one life determines what form the person will take in the next life
What is karma?
Main person associated with Buddhism
Who is Buddha?