Paleolithic
Paleolithic means
Old Stone Age
NEOlithic means
NEW Stone Age
What two rivers make up Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Indian civilization began along the _______ River
Indus
The major river where Chinese civilization began was the ______ River...(often called the River of Sorrows)
Huang He...Yellow
hunting and gathering
The MOST significant development in the Neolithic Age that changed EVERYTHING about society was
farming / agriculture
What river was the "life blood" of Egypt
the Nile
Numerically, ancient India is credited with developing the concept and number ____
Zero
Ancient Chinese writing began to written on ____ of the Shang Dynasty
Oracle bones
Name the technologies available to Paleolithic man
fire, stone, bone, wood tools, hide shelters
Define DOMESTICATION
the taming of animals for human / farm use
temples in Mesopotamia were known as
Ziggurats
The major mountain range that separates India from China is the
Himalayas
Early Chinese religion placed great emphasis on appeasing the spirits of the ________
Ancestors
What can cave art tell us
We can speculate about their lives via the images they left
Define SPECIALIZATION
learning and specific and "specialized" skill in crafts like weaving, pottery, smithing, etc.
Describe how a Ziggurat and Pyramid are different
Ziggurats = temples for the gods
Pyramids = tombs for the god kings (pharaohs)
Name the two cities that dominate the Indus River Valley civilization...though there were thousands
Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
During the Han Dynasty, Chinese trade spread West over what is known as this trade route
Silk Road
writing
Describe HOW farming began to change early human societies
farming = settled villages and surplus population
villages grow into cities over time
specialized labor = emergence of trade economies
war increases between communities
slavery emerges
governments and social classes emerge
Describe the significance of the the rivers to the early Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations
annual flooding allowed the farm land to be re-fertilized every year, also made irrigation of farm lands possible - for Egypt, was also a main travel and trade artery
Describe what happened to the Indus River Valley Civilization around 1500 BC that brought much change to India
Drying up of major regional rivers, depopulation of its cities, invasion and conquest of the Indo-Aryans and the slow transformation to Hindu India
What was the name for the Chinese belief that the gods/cosmos supported or stopped supporting an emperor's dynasty based on the family's virtuous rule
Mandate of Heaven