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100

People who are not settled and move from place to place

Nomads

100

Time period in which agriculture was first developed

Neolithic Period

100

Boomerang-shaped region often called a "cradle of civilization"

Fertile Crescent

100

Settled in place

Sedentary

100

This name means "Old Stone Age"

Paleolithic

200

"Land Between the Rivers"

Mesopotamia

200

Term for the Egyptian king

Pharaoh

200

The first Chinese dynasty for which we have definitive archaeological evidence

Shang

200

A series of rulers from the same family

Dynasty

200

Wedge-shaped writing developed by the Sumerians

Cuneiform

300

These two separate river valleys had gentle, predictable flooding

Nile (Egypt) and Yangzte (Southern China)

300

This geographical feature separates the Indian Subcontinent from the rest of Asia

Himalayas Mountain Range

300

This river valley featured two wet seasons due to monsoons

Indus River Valley

300

Writing system developed in ancient Egypt

Hieroglyphs/Hieroglyphics

300

First Chinese dynasty, but could be legendary since we don't have archaeological evidence for it

Xia

400

First metal that people worked with to make tools and weapons

Copper

400

First Indus city to be rediscovered

Harappa

400

This metal is an alloy (mixture) of copper and tin

Bronze

400

Strong natural barriers allowed these two civilizations to develop in relative isolation with strong cultural continuity

China and Egypt

400

Early Chinese inscriptions like these were used to try to tell the future

Oracle bones

500

The _____________ occurs when the old dynasty loses the _________________ and a new dynasty rises to take its place

Dynastic Cycle; Mandate of Heaven

500

Term for the rich, clay-heavy fertile soil deposited by the Yellow River floods

Loess

500

The flooding in Egypt led to their society developing a _________ outlook about the gods and afterlife

Positive/Optimistic

500

This legendary hero is the subject of a Sumerian epic poem

Gilgamesh

500

The flooding in Mesopotamia led to the societies there having a generally __________ outlook about the gods and afterlife

Pessimistic/negative