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Neolithic Rev.
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient China
Indus River Valley
100
The nomadic kinship groups of the Paleolithic Age were known as this
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
The nickname of the land surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The river along which the Ancient Egyptian civilization developed
What is the Nile?
100
The river near which the first civilization of China emerged
What is the Huang He or Yellow River?
100
The winds that determine the dry and wet seasons on the Indian subcontinet
What are monsoons?
200
The discovery (and the subsequent BIG change) that marked the end of the Paleolithic Age
What is agriculture?
200
The ruler whose law code is often paraphrased as "an eye for an eye"
Who was Hammurabi?
200
The writing system developed by the Ancient Egyptians
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The textile (fabric) developed in Ancient China which, over time, became a luxury item in the Roman Empire
What is silk?
200
The social hierarchy containing Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaisyas (herders, farmers, merchants, craftspeople) and Sudras (farm workers, servants, laborers), which was introduced to the Indus Valley civilization through the migration of the Indo-European Aryans
What is the caste system?
300
The economic factor that allowed the populations of the first settled societies to grow into cities
What is agricultural surplus?
300
The writing system developed by the ancient Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
300
The process used to preserve the body of a dead pharaoh?
What is mummification?
300
The system through which ruling families gained and lost power in China
What was the dynastic cycle?
300
One characteristic of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization that suggests a highly organized form of government (though their written language has never been deciphered, so we can't be certain...)
What are (1) planned streets (grid pattern), (2) sewage system, (3) irrigation canals
400
The geographic feature that allowed the first civilizations to emerge
What are river valleys?
400
The stepped pyramids built by the Ancient Sumerians
What are ziggurats?
400
The kind of paper invented by the Ancient Egyptians (made out of a reed that grows in marshy areas)
What is papyrus?
400
Floods and other natural disasters were often perceived as evidence that a dynasty (a ruling family) had lost this
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
The two most well-known cities of the ancient Indus Valley civilization
What were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
500
At least 3 characteristics of an "advanced civilization"...
What are (1) complex institutions (like government), (2) a writing system (for record-keeping), (3) specialized workers, (4) technology, (5) social structures/classes (6) advanced cities
500
One example of a geographic challenge faced by the city-states of Mesopotamia
What is (1) unpredictable floods, (2) lack of natural barriers, (3) limited natural resources
500
This female pharaoh, who became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother at age 12, extended Egyptian trade and oversaw many notable building projects
What was Hatshepsut?
500
Used by priests of the Shang dynasty to divine the future, these artifacts provide evidence of ancient China's oldest known writing system
What are oracle bones?
500
Written in Sanskrit, this is the most ancient collection of hymns and other religious texts from the Indus Valley civilization
What is The Vedas?