River Valley Civilizations
What are River Valley Civilizations?
Civilizations that arose around rivers for crop cultivation
Monotheistic means....
Belief in one God
The Neolithic Revolution is....
The beginning of farming and civilizations
A Geographer is..
Person who studies how location affects people
A Primary Source is...
Evidence from the time period
The River Valley Civilization along the Nile River was....
Egypt
Where did Buddhism and Hinduism originate...
India
Nomads are...
People on the move all the time
A cultural "norm" for Muslims is....
HINT something they have to do daily (:
Pray 5 times a day
The Fertile Crescent was....
The first set of written laws were....
Hammurabi's Code
The Abrahamic Religions are..
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Irrigation is...
When farmers dig up trenches to bring water to crops
Two forms of early writing were...
1. Cuneiform
2. Hieroglyphics
The belief in many gods was called...
Polytheism
This civilization is in between the Tigrus and Euphrates Rivers?
Mesopotamia
Hinduism used this system to determine social class.....
Caste System
What religions believe in reincarnation AND what is reincarnation..?
Hinduism and Buddhism
To be reborn in a different life
__________ is when aspects of culture spread to different areas of the world
Cultural Diffusion
Laws for Jew's and Christian's
10 Commandments
M-
I-
C-
E-
Mesopotamia
Indus river valley
China
Egypt
Buddhist Heaven is...
Nirvana
Some characteristics of a civilization are....
Jobs
Governments
Social Classes
Organized Religion
The sacred text for Islam is...
The large Islamic Empire was ....