Human Origins
Define: the process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into cultivated forms according to the interests of people. In its strictest sense, it refers to the initial stage of human mastery of wild animals and plants.
Domestication
Between what two rivers was the region of Mesopotamia located on?
Tigris and Euphrates
The Nile River is the longest river in the WORLD. Stretches roughly ______ miles. That is the same distance from us to Anchorage, Alaska!
4,100
a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet season), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry season).
Monsoons
Unlike the other civilizations we looked at, what can be contributed to fertile lands in China?
Loess
Which era began when some groups of humans gave up the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle completely to begin farming. It may have taken humans hundreds or even thousands of years to transition fully from a lifestyle of subsisting on wild plants to keeping small gardens and later tending large crop fields.
Neolithic Age
Define: a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
City-State
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
These rocky rapids divided the Upper and Lower Egypt.
Cataracts
What two rivers did Harappan civilizations migrate around?
Indus and Ganges
A political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the King. In return, the nobles owe loyalty and military service to the king and protection to the people who live on their estates.
Feudalism
Name the 5 characteristics that make a civilization
Advanced Cities, Specialized Workers, Complex Institutions, Record Keeping, and Advanced Technology
a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.
Hammurabi Code of Laws
What early ruler of Egypt is most attributed for unifying Lower and Upper Egypt?
Narmer
Drills, Circular Saw, Straws, and Indoor Plumbing. All of these, EXCEPT FOR WHAT, are known innovations of the Harappan society that we still use today.
Straws
This Chinese river is often regarded as the "China's Sorrow" due its tendency its bank to overflow and cause devastating floods.
The Huang He River (the Yellow River)
What was the name of the unusually complete adult female skeleton. 3.5 million years ago that shed light on the Australopithecus afarensis being bipedal.
Lucy
High priests in Mesopotamian society would reside and command within this centrally located pyramid structure .
Ziggurat
a form of government in which one or more deities of some type are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the day-to-day affairs of the government.
Theocracy
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Due to the fact that minimal weaponry was found and there was uniformity in housing, what do historians believe about their culture?
Minimal Social Divisions
a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
Mandate of Heaven
Nestled in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq, ________ is one of the earliest found AGRICULTURALLY BASED CITIES!
Jarmo
What three major contributions can we attribute Sumerian societies and culture for?
Geometry and Arithmetic (Math)
Architectural Innovations (Architecture)
Cuneiform (Writing)
an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
Hieroglyphics
Khyber Pass
Parts of animal bone, used in divination ceremonies in ancient China. These divination ceremonies were a way to seek guidance from deities or ancestors.
Oracle Bones