Sources
A source created at the time of the event or by someone who experienced the event.
What is a primary source?
Benefits include a source of water for drinking and cleaning, fertile soil, and transportation.
What are the benefits of living near a water source?
This is one geographic similarity between ancient Sumer and ancient Egypt.
What is developing near rivers?
This is the sea around which the Greek civilization developed.
What is the Mediterranean?
These two rivers allowed for the development of civilizations in ancient China.
What are the Yellow and Yangtze rivers?
A source created by someone who was not present at the event.
What is a secondary source?
This is the name of Sumerian writing.
What is cuneiform?
This is the name for a political, religious, and military leader in ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
These are two Greek city-states mentioned in the textbook.
What are Athens and Sparta?
This civilization is considered the first Chinese dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty?
This is what we call everything that has ever happened.
What is the past?
This innovation allowed people to progress from hunter-gatherers to more advanced societies.
What is farming?
This is the number of ancient Egyptian kingdoms.
What is three?
This is the form of government used by ancient Athenians (people from Athens) that continues to be used today in many countries.
What is democracy?
This feature of a civilization is shown by evidence of priests and temples in ancient China.
What is religion?
This is what we call our interpretation and understanding of past events.
What is history?
What is Iraq?
These were the three most important cities of ancient Egypt.
What are Memphis, Thebes, and Alexendria?
This city-state is most famous for its warriors and inspired the movie 300.
What is Sparta?
This feature of a civilization is shown by evidence of people doing different jobs.
What is job specialization?
A newspaper is usually this type of source.
What is a primary source?
These are the two rivers the Mesopotamian civilizations developed around.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Ancient Egyptians were able to develop their understanding of human anatomy and medicine through this process, which they performed on their dead.
What is mummification?
These are three influential philosophers from ancient Greece.
Who are Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates?
These are the 8 features of a civilization.
What are job specialization, religion, writing, development of cities, art/architecture, infrastructure, social classes, government/laws?