Early Man
What is a nomad?
A nomad is a person who does not live in one specific place so they could find food
What does polytheistic mean?
The belief in more than one god
what continent is Egypt on
Africa
What are monsoons?
Winter monsoons brought cold, dry air and the summer monsoons brought, wet air and rain needed to grow crops.
Who were the three mane Philosophers in Grece
1.Socrates
2.Plato
3.Aristotle
How did New Stone Age people get food?
How did Old Stone Age people get food?
New Stone Age people farmed, however some people still hunted and gatherd.
Old Stone Age people hunted and Gatherd food.
What is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates called?
The Fertile Cresent
What geographical feature protected eqypt to the north
south
east/west
North=Delta
South=Rapids
East/West= Deserts
who was Gandhi?
important hindu leader
What are main asspects of Greek religion
-Believed in many gods and goddess(polytheistic)
-Belife that all things in nature were a result of the gods/godesses so they did their best to please them
What is systematic agriculture?
Growing food on a regular basis
What did flooding do to help the people In the Fertile Cresent (Mesopotamia)
it created silt (fertile soil)
How were the Isralites different from the Mesopotamians
They were monotheistic (belived in one god)
What was the Silk Route in China
-It opend China to trade with the wesr
-Goods, religion, culture, and ideas were spread along the Silk Road
Name 2 effects of the mountians
1.Rocky soil=hard to farm
2.created city states
What is domestication?
taming animals
Name Sumerian inventions
wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, potter's wheel, bronze, mathematics/astronomy, cunaiform
what is the jewish holy book
the thorah
Who was Confucious?
-believed that respect within the family would lead to respect within society(field piety)
who was in the Roman Senate
wealthy citizens
1.What were the effects of systematic agriculture?
2. What were the effects of domestication?
1.People could live in one place and in small comunities
2.gave people meat, milk, and wool. Also made farming easier.
1.who is responsible for the first written law code
2. what was it called
3. what were its punishments
1. Hameribie
2. Hameribie's code
3. What ever you do happens to you; eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth
Define theocracy
When the son becomes the next king, then his son, then his son, and so one. the phantom had total power
What did Shi Huagdi do
-Set up a commen system of currency (money), weights and measure, on system of language
-He broke China into portions of the Great wall to create a border to the north
who was Agustus and what did he do
-1st Roman emporer
-Rebuilt the city of Rome
-People were grateful for the peace he brought and improvements he made