Harrapan Society
Indo-European Migrations Early Vedic Age
Religion in the Vedic Age
Early Africa and Bantu (Ch3)
Early SW Asia (Ch2)
100

Harappan cultures' decline is described with the words

Ecological Degradation

100

Where were the first cities built? 

Sumer

100

What did the Upanishads teach

Karma, Samsara, and Moksha

100

What is one type of transportation system the Egyptians used?

Sail boats

100

What was a Mesopotamian stepped pyramid known as?

A ziggurat

200

What was the Harappan society surrounded by?

Walls

200

Sumerian city-states set up professional armies and bureaucratic governments and became the first ________

Monarchs

200

What types of jobs did the Brahmins have?

They were priests

200

What innovation(s) made a big difference (turning point) in the history of Egypt?

development of iron, pottery, textile manufacturing. woodworking, leather production, stonecutting

200

Who was Enkidu?

Gilgamesh's friend

300

The Harappan society had surpluses at food so that must mean they were a ___________ society

Good at farming

300
Hammurabi was most famous for his __________

legal code

300

What are the Vedas?

A collection a hymns, poems, songs and ritual honoring of Aryan gods

300

Nubia had a noble class and kings but Egypt had ________ and ________

No noble class, Pharaoh

300

Where was the first complex society in the southern Mesopotamian land developed

Sumer

400

Why is little known about Harappan society?

Their written language has not been deciphered yet

400

What was Mesopotamia part of?

The fertile Crescent

400

What were the Indo-Europeans organized into?

Socially organized into tribes
400

In Nubia, what happened to servants when their owners died?

They were killed to serve their owner in death

400

Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by ?

The Hitties

500

What kind of industries did the Harappan Society have?

Diverse
500

Why did Semitic migrants move to Sumer?

For jobs, or briefly to trade their products (fur, animals skin, meat) 
500

Indo-European migrants typically had (looked)

Blonde hair, blue eyes

500

Why was transportation important in Egypt?

It influenced trading

500

The first simplified alphabet was created by the ________.

Phaeacians