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Civilizations
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
100
A change in how humans got their food (called the Neolithic Revolution)
What is hunter-gatherers to farmers?
100
The name of the Sumerian form of writing (and the first writing EVER!)
What is cuneiform?
100
The name of the Egyptian writing
What is hieroglyphics?
100
the most popular religion in India
What is Hinduism?
100
China was unique because it did not trade with the other civilizations
What are the effects of geographical barriers?
200
The change in how people lived after the Neolithic Revolution
What is nomadic to civilized settlements?
200
The rivers that Mesopotamia is located between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
200
The two rivers that are near the ancient Indian civilizations
What are the Ganges and Indus rivers?
200
The two rivers that ancient chinese civilizations were around
What is the Yellow River and the Yangtze River?
300
The name of a religion with many gods
What is polytheistic?
300
Two technological advancements of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia
What is the wheel and the first sewers?
300
the discovery of this made it possible for us to decode hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The cows became "holy" after this group of people stopped using them for food and began farming
What is the Aryans?
300
A family that rules in China for generations
What is a dynasty?
400
The name of a society that is dominated by men and the women have less rights than men
What is a patriarchal society?
400
The king who united all of Mesopotamia
Who is Hammurabi?
400
the religious purpose of the pyramids
What is the ability of the spirit, the ka, to return to the earth and rejoin the body
400
The mountain range that contain Mt. Everest and separate India from China
What are the Himalayas?
400
Intense obligation to make your family proud in China.
What is filial piety?
500
the 5 features of a civilization
What is cities, written records, advanced technology, complex institutions, and specialized labor?
500
Hammurabi's greatest and most long lasting achievement
What are strict laws that applied to everyday life?
500
the type of government the Egyptians had since the Pharaoh was seen as a god-king
What is a theocracy?
500
The four levels of the caste system AND the one group that is left out of the official system
What is the priests, warriors, farmers, workers, and untouchables
500
the man who taught his philosophies of how to live a good life to his students in China
Who is Confucius?