OSA/NSA
What is a simple definition of the Paleolithic era/ Old Stone Age?
The oldest period of time where people lived in caves, hunted and gathered, and moved from place to place.
What rivers did Mesopotamia survive on?
The Tigris and the Euphrates.
What was the major river in Egypt?
The Nile
How did they make cotton in India?
Cotton plant
What was one river in China?
The yellow river
How did the neanderthals survive
Hunting and gathering, living in caves and moving from place to place.
What is a river valley civilization?
A civilization that depended on a river to survive.
What was the religious writing system?
Hieroglyphics
What was the main religion in India?
Hinduism
What was a way of writing in China
Calligraphy.
What is culture?
A way of life
Where is the fertile crescent? Describe it.
It is in the middle east. It is a fertile land that is shaped a crescent.
What was the religious process of preparing the body for the afterlife?
Mummification
What was an art form in India.
Dance
How long was the great wall of china?
13,171 miles long
What were some important achievements of the neolithic era/ NSA?
Domestication and farming.
What is the definition of Mesopotamia?
The land between the rivers.
Who was Hatsheput?
The second female pharaoh.
cotton
Who was Shi Haungdi
First emperor of the Qin dynasty.
What was the agricultural revolution?
The New Stone Age.
What was the Metal Age?
The age of civilization/ Mesopotamia.
What is the Rosetta stone?
A stone found in 1799 (In Rosetta) That had different writing on it (Hieroglyphics, Greek and demotic)
What was the river in India
The Indus river
What were the religions that came from India but traveled to china
Hinduism and Buddhism.