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100
This intellectual invention marked the beginning of history (as opposed to pre-history).
What is written language?
100
The river that flows through Egypt, from South to North.
What is the Nile?
100
Monotheism is defined as what?
What is the belief in one and only one god
100
In the caste system, these people, aslo known as the harijan or dalit, were considered the lowest class of people in Indian society.
What is untouchable?
100
The title of the leader of the Egyptian government.
What is a Pharaoh?
200
The in the Neolithic era people stopped relying on hunting and gathering and started doing this...
What is agriculture?
200
This ancient civilization developed in the fertile plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, also known as the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
_____________ is the belief in several gods.
What is polytheism
200
The Nile provided a route for Egyptians to __________ with other surrounding civilizations for resources in which Egypt was not rich in.
What is trade?
200
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
300
The development of agriculture included both growing crops and this...
What is the domestication of animals.
300
The Greek city-states were isolated because of these physical features.
What are mountains and islands (or seas)?
300
Ancient Egyptians buried their Pharaohs in tombs called _________________. DAILY DOUBLE: The ancient Egyptians did this to their dead to prepare them for the afterlife.
What is pyramids? What is mummification?
300
How did humans change from the old (Paleolithic) to the new stone age?
They began farming, living in villages, raising animals and crops
300
This was a stable and long-lasting form of complex government popular in Egypt and China in which power was inherited, or passed on, from father to son.
What are dynasties?
400
With the development of agriculture people began to live in these.
What are permanent villages or cities?
400
These physical features help keep China isolated. (Name 2).
What are mountains and deserts. DAILY DOUBLE: Name a specific mountain range and specific desert.
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Name the sacred texts of Judaism and Hinduism.
What are the Torah and the Vedas - the Rig Veda being the most important.
400
This is a highly advanced society with a social structure, government, art, religion, writing and technology?
What is a civilization?
400
A _____________ is a city and surrounding land that make up an independent state, with its own ruler, army, and laws.
What is a city-state?
500
The earliest human migrations involved people leaving Africa, probably because of this...
A. enemy invasion B. animal migration C. population increase D. climate change
500
These are benefits of settling along a natural waterway that helped the ancient people of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus and China develop advanced societies. Name 3.
What are fertile soil, a stable food and water supply, transportation, and trade?
500
This is the big idea of the 3 belief systems we studied: If you follow the 10 commandments, your dharma, or the Eightfold path and this will happen to you.
You will go to heaven, reach nirvana or enlightenment, or Moksha.
500
What was the most important cultural element that spread along the Silk Road?
What is Buddhism?
500
These are the basic ways that people interact with each other - in ancient times and still today. Name 2.
What are war and trade or conflict and cooperation. People either resolve conflict by fighting wars (using force like Sparta and Shi Huang di) or cooperation - compromising, trading, finding a way to both get what they need.