stone age
Technology that had the biggest impact on a civilization.
What is fire?
Tigris River and Euphrates River.
What are the main rivers of Mesopotamia?
Set of laws and punishments developed by king of Babylon.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Seasonal winds.
What is a monsoon?
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The time before written records.
What is prehistory?
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the fertile cresent?
Separation from ones homeland.
What is the exile?
A main river and all other rivers that drain into it.
What is a river system?
The affect of a persons actions.
What is karma?
Objects made and used by humans.
What are artifacts?
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is bartering?
More than they need to feed themselves.
What is surplus?
Fortified area.
What is a citadel?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the torah?
Tools and skills that people use to meet their needs and wants.
What is technology?
Adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
What is domesticated?
Pyramid shaped brick towers.
What is ziggurats?
A collection of hundreds of sacred hymns.
What is Veda?
A persons duty or what is right for him or her.
What is dharma?
People who move from place to place with the seasons.
What are nomads?
A system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things.
What is cuneiform?
Groups of rocky rapids.
What are cataracts?
Social class into which a person was born.
What is caste system?
A state of blissful peace without desire or suffering.
What is nirvana?