A person who travels from place to place(no true home).
What is a nomad?
100
The land between two rivers, "The Fertile Crescent."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
What the Old Kingdom is also called.
What is The Age of Pyramids?
100
God would support a just ruler (Zhou Dynasty).
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
100
Brahma - the Creator, Vishnu - the Preserver, and Shiva - the Destroyer are the main gods.
What is Hinduism?
200
Unusually complete skeleton of female hominid discovered by Donald Johanson.
Who is Lucy?
200
The development of skills in a specific kind of work
What is Specialization?
200
Built the first step pyramid in Egypt.
Who is Djoser?
200
Central Beliefs: Honor, respect and love: traditions, family and ancestors.
What is Confucianism?
200
The belief that after death, souls are reborn into another form.
What is reincarnation?
300
Two hominid footprints preserved in volcanic ash in Africa found by Mary Leaky.
What are Laetoli Footprints?
300
This ancient civilization developed the first city-states.
What is Sumer?
300
The basis and law for Judaism as well as Christianity.
What is the ten commandments?
300
These two rivers are two geographical features in China.
What are the Yellow and Yangzi rivers?
300
social classes into which you are born and cannot change.
What is the Caste System?
400
Competition with other humans, Following animal herds, and Human curiosity.
What are reasons humans left Africa?
400
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
Rule by religious authority.
What is a theocracy?
400
Rulers using force to govern their people.
What is Legalism?
400
The path to nirvana, comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced: right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
What is the Eightfold Path?
500
The beginning of farming, civilizations began to form.
What is the Neolithic Revolution
500
Single, uniform set of laws engraved in stone to help unify diverse groups within his empire (An eye for an eye).
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
Explain the geographical features of Egypt. Why are these so important to the growth of their civilization?
The Nile river, desert surrounding the river on both sides. Provided a natural barrier for protection.
500
This opened trade to China. It was a series of trade routes.
What is the silk road?
500
Life is full of suffering
Suffering is caused by desire
Eliminate suffering by eliminating desire
Eliminate desire by following the Eightfold Path / Middle Way