Neolithic & Mesopotamia
This concept explains the use of pictograms for early writing systems.
The Rebus Principle
This Mesopotamian ruler is credited with developing one of the earliest legal collections in world history.
Hammurabi
Older scholarship placed the blame for the Late Bronze Age collapse (ca. 1200 BCE) on this migratory group.
The Sea Peoples
These TWO rivers hosted the earliests village communities in east Asia.
(Answer must name both)
Yellow River
Yangtze River
This species of insect is responsible for Sleeping Sickness in central Africa.
The tse-tse fly
This event (occurring around 10,000 BCE in SW Asia) is credited as the moment that human societies discovered agriculture.
The Neolithic Revolution
This object from pre-dynastic Egypt depicts the unification of upper and lower Egypt.
Palette of Narmer
This region of SW Asia formed the borderland between New Kingdom Egypt and the Hittites during the Amarna Period.
The Land of Canaan
Chinese writing was first inscribed on bone fragments and turtle shells for this purpose.
Divination
This culture is thought by some scholars to be a mother culture in the Mesoamerican super area.
This Mesopotamian god was the lord of wisdom and magic. He was believed to have created humans.
This Egyptian woman of the New Kingdom Egypt established herself as pharaoh & depicted herself as a male ruler.
Hatshepsut
This principle of cosmic chaos/order was used to justify the rule of the pharaohs.
Ma'at
This concept, developed by the Shang and Zhou rulers of China, describes divine approval of kingship.
The Mandate of Heaven
This linguistic group spent centuries migrating throughout central and southern Africa, making their language group the predominant language family of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bantu people
This figure was seen as both the goddess of love and war in Mesopotamian societies.
Ishtar
Development of this tomb structure led to the first Egyptian pyramids.
Mastaba
This Syrian city (allied w/ the Hittites) was an early victim of the Late Bronze Age collapse, the fate of which is preserved in Akkadian letters.
Ugarit
This concept was seen by Xunzi to be a means of restraining human nature?
Deliberate Effort
Ritual
Li
This system of watery caves was the underworld of the Maya.
Xibalba
This family of powerful Mesopotamian deities was seen as descended from the god An (Anu) and as rulers of the universe.
The Anunnaki
This symbol -- a falcon perched on a fortress wall -- was used to represent Old Kingdom rulership in Egypt.
Serekh
This monument was built to commemorate Egypt's defeat of the Sea Peoples in the Nile River Delta.
What is Medinet Habu?
This ruler ended the Warring States Period, supported Legalism, built the Great Wall of China, and was buried alongside an army of terracotta warriors.
Qin Shi Huang
This massive Mesoamerican city in the central Mexican plateau extended its political influence over many Maya city-states during the Classic Period.
Teotihuacan