Stone Age
Shift from hunting/gathering to producing food. This was the ______________Revolution. Was this the Paleolithic or the Neolithic Era?
Agricultural/Neolithic
____________ was a way of supplying water to an area of land/crops.
These ditches were responsible for controlling flooding.
Irrigation
Canals
Tool used to draw water from the Nile/had a counter balance.
Shadoof
Used to remove waste and create a cleaner/more healthy place to live
Sanitation systems
This was another phrase for lodestone, or the metal spoon on a base of bronze. Made travel safer and easier.
Magnetic Compass
Domestication
Tool connected to an animal, used to till land and plant seeds behind the animals
Plow
Based off of inundation/flooding of the Nile first, then the phases of the moon. It helped Egyptians plan for food supply.
Calendar
Ancient Indians came up with the process of inoculation or __________.
Made this for the purpose of writing. Similar to in purpose to ancient Egypt.
Paper
Early humans discovered the process of combining one element with another (like copper and tin to make bronze) to make stronger tools. This process was __________.
Metallurgy
Aided the movement of goods over land for long distances, assisted with moving more goods as well.
Assisted in the movement of goods by sea. Initially could only go in the direction the wind blew.
Wheel
Sail
Method of preserving Pharaohs/their families bodies for the journey to the afterlife.
Mummification
Indians came up with Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concept of what number?
Zero
Used for detecting earthquakes
Seismograph
Farming and raising animals created a food ________.
This allowed people to be able to have other jobs, or job _______________.
Surplus
Specialization
The ancient writing of Mesopotamia that used wedge shaped symbols on clay tablets using a stylus.
Cuneiform
Picture-Symbol based writing of ancient Egypt.
could be written on an early version of paper called...
Hieroglyphics
Papyrus
The Mahabarata, Bhagavad-Gita, and the Ramayana were examples of Indian __________.
Literature
The material that made China very wealthy, was highly desirable, only the Chinese knew how to make it.
Silk
Name the GRAPES of Social Studies
Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economics
Social Structures
The world's first written epic poem about a king of Sumer.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tombs of Egyptian pharaohs
Pyramids
The criss-cross grids of ancient Indian cities showed evidence of _________ ___________.
City Planning
The dynasty that valued scientific knowledge the most, followed Confucius teachings, and set up a major trade route called the _________________.
Han...Silk Road