Early Man
Describe how the Old Stone Age got food?
By being hunter-gathers
What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
Asia.
What continent is Egypt located on???
Africa
WHat kept India isolated from others???
The rugged mountain system.
How Pericles helped people get involed with the goverment?
Helped make Athens more democratic, he gave job to people based on their skills and not place in society. He paided the government officials to allow everyone to have the opportunity to be a part of the government.
What is a nomad? And why were Paleolithic people nomads?
Nomads are people who moved from place to place as a group to find food for themselves, so they could survive or their food ran out?
How were the Israelites different from the Mesopotamia and other people from anicent civilizations?
The idea of monotheism while everyone believed in polytheism.
Invations from the north:
In the south:
In the east and west:
The marshy Delta
cararacts (rough, dangerous )
hot sandy deserts
Describe the monsoons?
Large influence on India's climate in the winter wind would blow cold winds/dry winds form the Himalaya east to west, and in the summer land temperature winds came from the Arabia Sea.
What were Greeks religious beliefs?
The Greeks believed in more than one god or goddesses ;polytheistic. Beliefs that all thing in nature were a result of the gods or goddesses.
What is domestication? How did it help Neolithic people survive?
Domestication is when humans tame or train animals for human use. It made surplus and farming easier.
What does G.R.A.P.E.S stand for?
Geography, religion, achievements, politics, economics, social struture
Why was religion important to ancient Egyptian life???
Religion was important because ethe egyptians wanted to keep their gods pleased, because they believed that their God had all the power.
Explain the silk road and the importance to China?
The Silk route allowed transportation of expensive goods all the way form China to the Middle East. The Silk route spread the knowlegde, culture and religion.
Why was Julius Caesar killed??
One he ruled for too long and the senates were afraid of his power and felt that he would take away the power of the senates too.
What is specilization? What are eosme examples of jobs that early people did since they had surplus and had free time to learn new skills?
The act of training for a particular job. They were pottery makers, jewelry marker, basket weaver, house builders, and weapon makers.
How did the flooding of the Tirfris and Euphrates River affet the people of Mesopotamia?
They food left rich silt that is good for crops/farming.
Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt and the dynasty rule.
Discuss beliefs and teaching of Confucian? Explain the impact it had on China's society.
Confucius wanted people to follow the beliefs of their ancesored. Confucius believed it would bring peace to China. Confucius believed each individual carried out his or her duties society would do well.
What was the role of the senate during the Roman Republic?
The sentates were made up off wealthy Romans and proposed and voted on new laws.
What is systematic agriculture? Describe how this revolution?
Systematic agriculture is organized growing food on a regular schedule. This caused people to grow crops and raise animals for food, to stay in one place growing food ment they had surplus, so they had time to specialize.
What is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates River called? Why is It called this???
It is called the Fertile Cresent it is called the Fertile Cresent because the rich soil (silt) that comes from the flooding.
Why did ancient Egyptains study the stars???
They studied the stars because the stars predicted when the next flooding would happen
Describe the geography of China and how it affected people????
Ancient China had fertile river valleys. Mountains and deserts much of China they act like walls around chins separting them from other civilzations.
Describe how Greece's physical geography influenced its early cilivilzations?
Had many mountains and rocky soil; not much farmable land Surrounded by sea so they became good at fisherman and traders. Mountains and deep valleys separated the Greeks, causing them to become independent of each other and created separate cite-states.