Key Terms
What is the process of taming animals and growing plants?
What is domestication?
The Neolithic Revolution marked the shift from hunting and gathering to what?
What is farming?
Which two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What river was essential for life in Ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What is one of the key cities of the Indus Valley civilization?
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
What river was central to the development of ancient Chinese civilization?
What is the Huang He (Yellow) River?
What do you call having more food than you need?
What is surplus?
During the Neolithic Revolution, where did people settle down?
What are river valleys?
What system of writing did the Mesopotamians create?
What is cuneiform?
Who was both a political and religious leader in Ancient Egypt?
Who is the pharaoh?
What system did the Indus Valley people use to manage water and waste?
What are drainage systems?
What natural barriers helped protect ancient China from outside invasions?
What are mountains and deserts?
What is the growth and development of cities called?
What is urbanization?
The Neolithic Revolution allowed people to create permanent homes and what?
What are communities?
What was one of Mesopotamia’s main trading goods?
What are crops?
What annual event provided fertile soil for Egyptian farmers?
What is the flooding of the Nile?
What was the main river in the Indus Valley civilization?
What is the Indus River?
What type of government did ancient China have, where rulers claimed they had the approval of the gods?
What is a monarchy with the Mandate of Heaven?
Which term refers to a system where leaders have both political and religious control?
What is theocracy?
What tools did farmers develop during the Neolithic Revolution to grow more food?
What are plows?
Who was the king that created the Code of Laws in Mesopotamia?
Who is Hammurabi?
What was the form of writing used in Ancient Egypt?
What are hieroglyphics?
The Indus Valley people were known for trading which two materials?
What are cotton and precious stones?
What was the name of the trade route that connected China to the West?
What is the Silk Road?
What is the type of farming where you grow just enough food for your family?
What is subsistence farming?
What did the Neolithic Revolution lead to in terms of food supply?
What is food surplus?
What is the name of the region known as the "land between the rivers"?
What is Mesopotamia?
What did Egyptians use to water their crops in the desert?
What are irrigation systems?
What was the name of the writing system used by the Indus Valley civilization?
What is still undeciphered?
What Chinese philosophy emphasized respect for elders and the importance of family?
What is Confucianism?