Neolithic Revolution
What term describes the act of taming animals or plants for human use?
What is domesticate?
What irrigation method did Mesopotamians develop to control water supply?
What are canals?
What are the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Name one major city of the Indus River Valley civilization.
What is Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
What modern day country is the Yellow River Valley Civilization located in?
What is China?
Define the term "surplus."
What is having more than what is needed?
How would you describe the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamians?
What is that they were polytheistic?
Why is the region called the Fertile Crescent?
What is because it is capable of producing large amounts of vegetation?
What is where the 1st civilizations began?
Name one of the mountain ranges that acted as a form of protection for the Indus River Valley.
What is the Hindu Kush Mountains and Himalaya Mountains?
Name one of the two most important dynasties to exist in the Yellow River Civilization.
What is the Shang and the Zhou?
What era is characterized by the use of stone tools and a nomadic lifestyle?
What is the Paleolithic Era?
What did the Sumerian prayer suggest about their view of the gods?
What is that their gods were powerful and often angry?
What are seasonal winds?
What is monsoons?
Besides the Indus River, what other river lies within the Indus River Valley?
What is the Ganges River?
What is the theory about the rise and fall of dynasties?
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
What does the term "prehistoric" refer to?
What is the time before writing was invented?
Discuss one enduring issue that emerged from the Code of Hammurabi.
What is the impact of inequity and injustice in legal systems?
What does the term "subcontinent" refer to in geographic context?
What is a large, distinct section of a continent that is somewhat separated from the rest of the continent
Name one positive effect and one negative effect of monsoons
What are providing lots of rain for crops?
What are bad monsoon seasons can lead to starvation or floods?
What is the vocabulary term for permission to rule from the gods?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What is the time period where people sometimes hunted, but MOSTLY farmed for food?
What is Neolithic Era?
Describe one way that Mesopotamians modified their environment.
What is by building levees and reservoirs?
Water, mountains, and deserts are all examples of these?
What are natural barriers?
In 1800 BCE, nomadic herders migrated into the Indus River Valley and brought their religion, language, and social class system. This is know as what?
What is the Aryan Migration?
Chinese writing was ____________, meaning each written symbol represented a word instead of a sound.
What is pictographic?