People & Society
This term describes a permanent town or city where people live together and develop social roles, like artisans and priests.
What is civilization?
Early civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt developed near these features that provided fertile land for farming.
What are the Indus and Nile rivers?
The Ten Commandments influenced moral rules and later legal systems in which religion?
What is Judaism?
The Twelve Tables were important because they were the first set of written laws for which ancient civilization?
What is Rome (the Roman Republic)?
How did the development of writing change human society, according to the document?
It allowed civilizations to keep records, pass laws, and preserve ideas.
In many ancient civilizations, this group included farmers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved people and formed different levels in society.
What are social classes?
How did monsoon winds help the development of civilizations in South Asia?
What is by providing seasonal rainfall needed for farming?
This belief described in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says that the self is reborn into another body after death.
What is reincarnation?
The Laws of Hammurabi show an early legal idea that someone accused must prove the charge — this principle is similar to which modern legal idea?
What is “innocent until proven guilty”?
What important trade network connected China with Central Asia, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, helping exchange goods and ideas?
What is the Silk Road?
This process, shown in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, allowed people to focus on specific jobs (potters, scribes, doctors). It increased productivity.
What is specialization?
Scientists think the first peoples reached the Americas by using this land connection between Asia and North America.
What is the Bering land bridge?
List two central ideas in the teachings of the ancient Israelites shown in the document.
What are belief in one God (monotheism) and the need to obey God’s rules?
Which ancient government had three branches that later influenced the U.S. government?
What is the Roman Republic?
Name one technological or engineering achievement shared by the Indus Valley civilization and ancient Rome.
What are advanced sewage systems?
Why did the ancient Egyptians obey the pharaoh’s commands?
Because they thought the pharaoh’s rule brought order and safety.
The Grand Canal connected which two major Chinese rivers and helped link important cities?
What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)?
From Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Athens is called this type of government where power is held by the people.
What is democracy?
Why did the plebeians want the Twelve Tables written down in Rome?
What is to guarantee fair treatment and make laws public and clear?
Which achievement from ancient South Asia had a lasting effect on mathematics?
What is the concept of zero and advances in mathematics?
Name two groups that were organized into city-states in the ancient world.
Who are the Sumerians and the Greeks?
The Germanic migrations of groups like the Visigoths and Vandals moving into the Roman Empire helped cause this major change in Western Europe.
What is the fall (decline) of the Western Roman Empire?
What is the word for the spread of Jewish people outside of Israel?
Diaspora
Compare the 3 Chinese philosophies that arose during the Warring States period.
Confucianism teaches that people should behave kindly and respectfully to keep society peaceful.
Daoism says people should live simply and in harmony with nature.
Legalism believes people need strict rules and punishments to keep order.
Which two Roman emperors helped bring stability and prosperity through reforms?
Who are Augustus and Constantine?