Early Man
What is another name for the Old Stone Age?
Paleolithic age
what continent is Mesopotamia located on?
Asia
What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What country is china and India located on
Asia
What continent is Greece and Rome located on?
Europe
Describe how the Old Stone Age people got food.
The hunted and gathered
What was the area between the Tigris and Euphrades river called?
The fertile crescent
what was does the word polytheistic mean?
Belief in many gods
What kept india isolated?
Rugged mountains along the boarder and seas along the southern boarder.
what were the Greece religious beliefs?
They beilived in more than one god or goddesses.
What is a nomad?
A nomad is a person who moved place to place as a group to find food for themselves
What does the acronym G.R.A.P.E.S stand for?
Geography, religion, achievement, politics, economics, social structure
Name some sumerian inventions
cuneiform, scribe, epic, ziggurat, wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, bronze
Describe the carefully planned city of mohenjo daro.
grid-like streets or seperate blocks of houses, sewer systems brought waste inside.
Tell why Julius Caesar was killed.
ruled for too long and ruled like a king.
What is surplus?
More of a recourse than needed to survive.
Who was responsible for the first written law code? What was their punishments like?
Hammurabi "an eye for an eye"
Why did Egytian people study the stars.
to understand the cycle of the Nile River
explain the importance of monsoons in ancient India.
brought cold, dry air and the summer monsoons brought warm, wet air to grow their crops
What was the role of the Senate in the Roman republic?
proposed and voted on new land. made up of wealthy Romans.
What is systematic agriculture?
Orginized growing of food on a regular basis ; farming
How did the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrades rivers help the people of mesopotamia?
It exchanged goods and resources
define theocracy
Theocracy is a form of government that leaders hold political power
Discuss the achivements of Shi Huangdi
Set up a currency system, weighs, measures, one system of language.
disscuss Alexander the greats goal for his empire.
wanted to conquer as much land as possible and create a large empire