Civilizations
The river that flows through Eqypt.
What is the Nile?
Which era came first — Paleolithic or Neolithic?
What is Paleolithic?
These are the four main directions on a compass.
What are North, East, South and West?
A place where many people live and work together.
What are cities?
Time before writing existed.
What is prehistory?
This civilization developed cuneiform writing.
What is Mesopotamia?
In the Paleolithic Era, people got food by doing this.
What is hunting and gathering?
Civilizations often began in these fertile areas.
What are river valleys?
When people do different kinds of jobs like farmers, scribes (writers), inventors or builders.
What is job specialization?
A record written by someone who saw the event happen.
What is a primary source?
Mohenjo-Daro was an example of this mark of civilization.
What are cities?
This major discovery allowed people to settle down during the Neolithic Era.
What is agriculture?
This river helped early Chinese civilizations grow.
What is the Huang He river?
This is used to keep records or tell stories in a civilization.
What is writing?
Living without a permanent home and moving for food.
What is nomadic?
This ancient civilization used oracle bones to predict the future.
What is Ancient China?
In the Neolithic Era, people built these instead of being nomadic.
What are settlements/villiages/cities?
Name one reason river valleys were good for farming.
What is fertile soil from floods?
Belief systems with gods, rituals, and temples.
What is religion?
Farming and raising animals is known as this.
What is agriculture?
This ruler created one of the first written law codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
One big difference between the two eras is that Neolithic people could do this for food.
What is grow it/farm it?
These three benefits made river valleys ideal for early civilizations.
What are fresh water, fertile land, and transportation?
A group of people ranked from kings to slaves is called this.
What is social hierarchy?
The spread of ideas and culture from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?