Origins of Civilization
This allowed people to cook food and scare off dangerous animals.
What is fire?
A state containing several countries or territories.
What is an empire?
This was used to make paper
What is papyrus?
According to Hinduism, this determines how a person is reborn.
What is karma?
These were used to predict the future.
What are oracle bones?
The belief that spirits fill the natural world.
What is animism?
Goods made and shipped by Phoenicians to other lands.
What are exports?
These served as tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
This is how Buddha achieved enlightenment.
What is meditation?
This symbol represents the ideal of balance.
What is Yin and Yang?
This phrase defines the time called prehistory.
What is "before written records"
Symbols were used in the Phoenician alphabet to represent these.
What are sounds?
This refers to the buying and selling of goods and services.
What is commerce?
This physical feature separates the subcontinent of India from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This was a network of trade routes that crossed Asia.
What was the Silk Road?
This group is thought to be the first to bury its dead.
Who are Neanderthals?
An area ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
This kingdom conquered Kush.
What is Egypt?
This is a system of offices that carries out government rules and regulations.
What is a bureaucracy?
This Han invention was called the "wooden ox."
What was the wheelbarrow?
Objects made or used by humans.
What are artifacts?
This is the name for the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
This Egyptian pharaoh built the most monuments.
Who is Ramses II?
These are Buddhist commemorative burial mounds.
What are stupas?
This philosopher helped shape Chinese thought and was known as the "First Teacher."
Who was Confucius?