Paleo/Neolithic
What is egalitarian?
The region that the Sumerians settled nicknamed for it's excellent soil
What was the Fertile Cresent?
King is a reincarnation of what God?
Who is Amun-Re?
This was the organization of Harrapan city indicating a degree of centralization
What was the grid road system?
The soil responsible for making the Huang He river yellow
What is loess?
The revolution that caused the increase in farming and settlement
What is the Neolithic revoltion?
The Sumerian writing system and the tools it used/it's purpose
Cuneiform
Used clay tablets and stylus
Used for record-keeping
The king who reunited Egypt in Early Archaic Period
Who was King Menes?
The landform from where the Aryans invaded from IndoEurasia into South India
What was the Khyber Pass?
The mystical fortune-telling turtle shells of Shang
What were oracle bones?
Describe them in detail
What is domestication?
Legislative system Hammurabi codified and established in Babylon
What is Lex Talionis/Laws of Retaliation?
2) Determination for afterlife status
1) What were canopic jars?
2) What was the weighing of the heart?
(What did you have to do to have your atman samsara into next castle)
What was fulfilling dharma (caste rules) to get good karma (Laws of reaction)
The political structure of Zhou
What was decentralized fuedalism through warlords?
What is grain, goats, sheep, horses, water buffalo, and rice?
The Mesopotamian afterlife's name, and the rivers affect on Mesopotamian afterlife?
What is destructive nature led to negative view on gods and afterlife?
The invasion that started the Bronze Age and it's effect
What was the Hyksos Invasion that brought bronze and chariots to Egypt and caused a militarization and defense system?
The original Hindu texts
What were the Rig Veda and Upanishad texts?
The belief system ancient China possessed that dictated who the ruler was
What is ancestral veneration?
This is the religion of the nomads (State and describe)
What is animism (the worship of natural features and nature for it is the belief they have spirits)
The storage of the agricultural surplus
What is a ziggurat?
Who is Aten?
The cosmic man who created the world
Who was Purusha?
What was the Period of Warring States that lasted for 700 years?