India's Caste System
This group of people were considered "outcasts."
What are the Untouchables?
This was a major trade route that went from Asia to Europe?
What is the Silk Road?
farming led to settlement and a surplus of food. This allowed people to specialize in jobs and trade. This was known as _______________.
What is the farming/argicultural revolution?
The first writing system developed in Mesopotamia was called and was used for RECORD KEEPING.
What is cuneiform?
This is the writing system of Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
This group was at the top of the Caste system making their government a theocracy.
What are priests?
This was built to keep out Xiongnu invaders. It was started under Qin and finished in the Middle Ages under Yangdi.
What is the Great Wall?
These areas provided rich soil for farming; water to cook, drink, and bathe; irrigation, transportation, and trade.
What are river valley civilizations?
Which direction does the Nile run?
What is North?
This is the writing system of India.
What is Sanskrit?
This level was made up of skilled traders, merchants, and minor officials.
What is the common people?
A belief that people should put the needs of their family and community before their own. Also, people who have a talent for government should be in it.
What is Confucianism?
This is an organized way people produce, sell and buy goods. In the civilizations we have learned about it is primarily based on farming and trade.
What is economy?
A paragraph in a textbook describing life in ancient Egypt would be considered a ___________ source.
What is secondary?
This runs East to West, but measures North to South?
What is latitude?
This groups was listed below priests which is unlike most other civilizations.
What are rulers and warriors?
This river was given this name because it killed people and destroyed homes with its dangerous flooding.
What is China's Sorrow?
This person created the first written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This philosophy stated that people were evil and needed to be punished.
What is the Legalism?
This religion was founded by the Aryans, but was influenced by many cultures.
What is Hinduism?
Skin color and the fact they were outnumbered were why the Aryans invented this.
What is the Caste System?
A famous European traveler who reached China. He wrote a book about his travels that caused Europeans to be interested trade and travel to China.
Who is Marco Polo?
A poem written in Sanskrit from an Aryan writing about the war would be a __________ source.
What is primary?
This was the stepped pyramid found in Mesopotamia where they worshiped their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
People in Egypt may work on the pyramids for these two reasons.
What are wages and to honor the pharaoh?