Neolithic Revolution
This was the main development of the Neolithic era.
What is agriculture?
These were some of the earliest state leaders, who blended political and spiritual leadership.
What are priest-kings?
Hinduism is the only of the five largest world religions that this term characterizes.
What are ethnic religions?
This term describes the phenomenon of a culture or practice adopting local characteristics as it spreads.
What is syncretism?
This, the first major unified Chinese empire, was surprisingly short-lived.
What was the Qin dynasty?
These two aspects characterize events called "revolutions"
What is big change and rapid change
These two water-management activities were important early state activities.
What are flood management and irrigation?
This belief system has guided numerous Chinese dynasties as the state ideology.
What is Confucianism?
This aspect strongly distinguishes the leadership of Mohammed and Jesus as Abrahamic prophets.
What is Mohammed's political leadership?
While people associate this mathematical innovation with the Islamic Golden Age, it is really an example of the Abbasid's preservation of previous civilization's innovative knowledge.
What are Arabic/Hindu numerals?
Jared Diamond identified these as reasons for calling agriculture "the worst mistake of the human species"
What are increased hierarchy, disease, conflict, poorer nutrition, less free time, etc.
This was one of the earliest functions of the state, allowing for it to fund/facilitate all its other activities. Like death.
What are taxes?
This argument was invoked by early monarchs to justify their rule.
What is Divine Right?
This community is actually not considered a part of the Hindu caste system, but are seen as "outside" of it.
Who are the Dalits?
Cyrillic script originates from the Eastern Roman Empire, also knwn by this name.
What is the Byzantine empire?
This consequence of agriculture allowed for job specialization and further complexity in human society, but also led to conflict between agriculturalists and pastoralists/hunter gatherers.
What is food surplus?
These are the three defining aspects of empires.
What is expansionism, diverse populations and hierarchies between citizens and subjects.
These two elements contributed greatly to the early spread of Islam beyond the early Caliphates, especially in Africa and Central Asia.
What are the Arabic language and guidance on statecraft?
The death (or martyrdom) of the Prophet Muhammad's Grandson Husayan at the battle of Karbala marked this development in Islam.
What is the Sunni Shia split?
This system of offices is seen in essentially all large-scale states, allowing them to conduct a broad variety of specialized tasks.
What is the bureaucracy?
These factors contributed to increased inequality in human societies during the late neolithic.
Sedentary lifestyle leads to accumulation of private property, job specialization, shifts in worship of women's fertility to male-led worship of land's fertility, growth of patriarchy due to job specialization and as a form of status display etc.
This political motivation might be seen as an ulterior agenda behind the conversions of Emperors Ashoka and Constantine.
What is an attempt to rally support from the lower classes?
These two practices constituted much of pre-neolithic religious belief.
What are animism and female-fertility worship?
These are the major similarities and differences between Buddhism and Hinduism.
What are belief in Dharma, Samsara and Nirvana and what is rejection of caste?
This little menace won't shut up and stop biting my feet from 5 (4:30 on a bad day) to 7 when he gets fed.
Who is Fred?