River Valley Civilizations
The geographic feature that helped all four civilizations grow.
What is rivers?
This was the biggest change in lifestlye when people began to farm.
What is permanent settlements?
This is the title of the Egyptian ruler.
What is pharaoh?
The belief in being born again.
What is reincarnation?
Two natural features that isolated China?
What are mountains, deserts, and seas?
How flooding was helpful to farmers.
What is provided silt or water for crops?
This is why trade developed.
What is to get things they did not have?
The purpose of an Egyptian pyramid.
What is a pharaoh's tomb?
What the caste system did for Indian society.
What is provide social order and stability?
Explain the Mandate of Heaven.
What is the belief that the right to rule came from heaven and the gods?
Why early civilizations needed to control water.
What is for irrigation or to control floods?
How the plow helped farmers.
What is made it easier and faster to plant seeds in fields?
The main difference between Mesopotamian and Egyptian government.
What is Mesopotamia was independent city-states each with a king while Eygpt was united under one ruler?
Ideas that Hinduism and Buddhism share.
What are reincarnation and karma?
How geography impacted China's trade with other civilizations.
What is it made China isolated so limited trade?
The problem that needs to be solved when a civilization beside a river experiences unpredictable flooding.
What is to control flooding?
What is more population, trade, specialization of jobs, or cities?
Why people follow laws with extremely harsh punishments.
What is they are afraid of the punishments?
How the caste system affects a person's place in society (at least 3 ways).
What is determines your job, where you live, what you can eat, who you can be friends with, who you can marry?
A Chinese ruler loses the support of the gods after a natural disaster. The Mandate of Heaven says this must happen.
What is the ruler gets replaced?
Two ways rivers helped early civilizations and one problem they caused.
What is helping with fertile soil, water for crops, transportation, food and problems with damaging floods?
How farming led to both population growth AND the development of cities.
What is a surplus supports more people and more people lead to permanent settlements, specialization, cities, law codes, and government?
A similarity and difference between pyramids and ziggurats.
What is they are both large religious structures but pyramids are tombs while ziggurats are only temples?
How a belief in reincarnation influences the way a person lives their life.
What is your actions now affect your future lives?
How Confucianism and Daoism each try to create a better or more peaceful society.
What is Confucianism focused on proper relationships and social order and Daoism emphasized to live in harmony with nature?