Ancient Civilization Origins
Ancient Civilization Characteristics
Ancient Civilization Facts
Ancient Civilization Notes
Ancient Civilization Stuff
Potpourri
100
Based on our maps we completed in Unit 2, humans first appear on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
It is a tomb visible from great distances. It is a reminder to all who see it of the wealth and power of the leader of the people who built it and of his glory and greatness as a god here on earth. The speaker of this passage above is referring to the _____________________.
What is an Egyptian Pharaoh and his Pyramids?
100
The earliest civilizations in Egypt, India, and China have this geographic feature in common that provided protections from invasion.
What are mountains?
100
This is how the ancient Mesopotamia modified their environment to increase food production.
What is digging irrigation canals?
100
The contacts between civilizations were primarily made by these types of traders.
Who are merchants?
100
It takes twelve (12) pounds of milk to make this summertime treat.
What is ice cream?
200
This development most enabled early people to form permanent settlements and move away from a nomadic lifestyle?
What is advances in agriculture production? AKA FARMING
200
The concept of zero, the expansion of the caste system, and the creation of the decimal system are most closely associated with this civilization.
What is Gupta Empire (Ancient India)?
200
Name two of the Ancient Civilizations we have studied in class.
What are Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient China, Ancient India, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome?
200
This Chinese belief system best exemplifies having good relationships.
What is Confucianism?
200
This process illustrates the importance ancient Athenians placed on participation in Government.
What is political process/voting?
200
The first of these 'wondrous' page-turners was published in 1939.
What is Marvel Comics?
300
This scientist directly engage in these activities:
* Keeping field notes from excavation sites.
* Analyzing radiocarbon dating test results.
* Examining and cataloging artifacts.
What is an Archaeologist?
300
Cities / Complex government / Job specialization / Writing systems are all labeled as this.
What are 'characteristics of civilization'?
300
The Ancient Greeks developed this because of the influence of Greece's mountainous terrain and its series of small islands.
What is political system based on independent city-states?
300
This circular art form originally celebrated the tenants of Buddhism.
What is a mandala?
300
This belief system viewed people as inherently bad and needed to be harshly ruled.
What is legalism?
300
In Germany, you could go to school in a building with this 'feline' design.
What is a cat?
400
This is how the geography of the peninsula of Greece influenced the development of agriculture.
What is the people adapted and raised animals and crops that needed little land to survive (goats, barley, etc.)?
400
This road led to wealth for various countries and the exchange of culture and goods.
What is the Silk Road?
400
The belief people turned to when they desired to be harmonious with nature.
What is Taoism?
400
This geographic factor affected the development & agriculture of the Gupta Empire (ancient India).
What are monsoons?
400
This country has all the geographic features of the Thar Desert, Ganges River, Deccan Plateau which contributed to its unique landscape and agriculture.
What is India?
400
This dangly treat was introduced to the world on July 15, 1981, but don't expect to find any in your garden.
What are gummy worms?
500
This is the primary reason Ancient civilizations used myths about their gods.
What is explain events in the natural world?
500
This is a place that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state and might have its own deity and identity.
What is a city-state?
500
This is why Hammurabi's code of ancient Mesopotamian society was important.
What is it established one of the first legal codes/listed the laws and the corresponding punishments?
500
Cuneiform and hieroglyphics were important achievements in the development of this innovation.
What is written language?
500
All of the words used in the English language today originated in myths of this civilization.
What is the Greek civilization?
500
This state's capital shares its name with a friendly ghost.
What is Wyoming? (Casper)