Harrapan Society
Harappan cultures' decline is described with the words
Ecological Degradation
Where were the first cities built?
Sumer
What did the Upanishads teach
Karma, Samsara, and Moksha
What is one type of transportation system the Egyptians used?
Sail boats
What was a Mesopotamian stepped pyramid known as?
A ziggurat
What was the Harappan society surrounded by?
Walls
Sumerian city-states set up professional armies and bureaucratic governments and became the first ________
Monarchs
What types of jobs did the Brahmins have?
They were priests
What innovation(s) made a big difference (turning point) in the history of Egypt?
development of iron, pottery, textile manufacturing. woodworking, leather production, stonecutting
Who was Enkidu?
Gilgamesh's friend
The Harappan society had surpluses at food so that must mean they were a ___________ society
Good at farming
legal code
What are the Vedas?
A collection a hymns, poems, songs and ritual honoring of Aryan gods
Nubia had a noble class and kings but Egypt had ________ and ________
No noble class, Pharaoh
Where was the first complex society in the southern Mesopotamian land developed
Sumer
Why is little known about Harappan society?
Their written language has not been deciphered yet
What was Mesopotamia part of?
The fertile Crescent
What were the Indo-Europeans organized into?
In Nubia, what happened to servants when their owners died?
They were killed to serve their owner in death
Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by ?
The Hitties
What kind of industries did the Harappan Society have?
Why did Semitic migrants move to Sumer?
Indo-European migrants typically had (looked)
Blonde hair, blue eyes
Why was transportation important in Egypt?
It influenced trading
The first simplified alphabet was created by the ________.
Phaeacians