Stone Age
technology that had the biggest impact on a civilization?
What is Fire?
(They used this which was eventually a huge impact)
The shape of a region named, The Fertile Crescent
What is crescent-shaped curve?
(It was a region of the Middle East that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.)
Most Famous Statue of its kind
What Is The Great Sphinx of Giza?
(This very important statue was built about 2,500 B.C)
These things bring seasonal winds
What is a monsoon?
(Monsoons also shape life in this region.)
belief in only 1 God?
What Is Monotheism?
(Judaism and Jewish people were Monotheistic)
Technology that was important to human survival
What is Tools made out of Stone?
(It was so important that archaeologists called this period the Paleolithic Era, or the Old Stone Age.)
Two major rivers of Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and Euphrates river?
(The civilization, Assyria, was on the upper part of Tigris river and another civilization, Babylonia, was located near the Euphrates river.)
First pharaoh of united Egypt
What is Narmer?
(He united the two lands of Lower and Upper Egypt.)
A large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent
What is a subcontinent?
(The Indian subcontinent stretches almost 2,000 miles from north to south.)
The belief in more than 1 god
What is Polytheism?
People who moved to place to place with seasons
What is a Nomad?
(Never have permanent homes.)
A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
What is cuneiform?
(This involved pressing wedge-shaped marks into clay tablets.)
What was The Great Sphinx carved out of?
What is a natural outcrop of limestone?
(Because the sand shifts of The Great Sphinx, measurements of length and height can vary.)
Where some scholars believe that those farmers stored their surplus crops
What is a granary?
(It was also a special building used to hold grain.)
A supreme cosmic consciousness and spiritual force God
What is a Brahman?
(They say, Brahman is the source of all things.)
Paleolithic Greek meaning
What is "old" and "stone"?
(This lasted from about 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago.)
Where the Code Of Hammurabi was engraved
What is a stele?
( Some of the laws and punishments may seem very extreme and cruel.)
The 3 different kingdoms of Egypt
What is the Old, New, and Middle Kingdom?
(Something about the Old Kingdom is that they were the kingdom that built pyramids.)
A main river that all of the other rivers and streams drain into
What is a river system?
(These rivers start as melting snow and ice in the mountains and flow to the sea.)
The Hindus belief that is the effect of a person's actions in this and in previous lives
What is karma?
(Hindus also believe that bad karma leads to bring rebirth into a lower caste as a lower animal. Good karma brings rebirth into a higher caste.)
The people that split stones to make cutting tools for chopping down small trees, cutting meat, or scraping animal skins clean
What is Toolmakers?
(Over time, those toolmakers became more skillful, making thinner and sharper stone blades.)
Temples that were pyramid-shaped brick towers
What is ziggurats?
(They were very tall as well as paintings and statues belonged in there.)
The riddle the sphinx demanded every time travelers came along?
What is, "What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?"
(Oedipus answered, "Man", and because of that he was now king just for answering her riddle.)
A fixed social class into which a person is born
What is a caste?
(These people inherited their caste from their parents.)
A Buddhism belief about an Indian spiritual leader
What is the Buddha?
(The story of his life comes mainly from Buddhist texts that his followers, Buddhists, memorized and passes down by word of mouth.)