World Religions
Buddhism originated in this country.
What is India?
Mesopotamia was an example of the first of one of these.
What is civilization?
The area in the Mediterranean where farming first appeared.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What are the Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods?
What is a primary source?
This is the name of a very sacred book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
The rivers surrounding Mesopotamia that allowed for rich resources and farming. HINT: they often flooded.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This plant is widely believed to be the first grain to be domesticated.
What is wheat.
The period of the Stone Age that Cave Art emerged.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Periodization and Spacial Frames
What are the names for two ways historians organize history?
What is polytheistic?
What is cuneiform?
The way of life prior to the discovery of farming.
What is hunter-gatherer?
What is the Paleolithic period largely defined by?
What are simple tools like stone knives?
Organizing history by date is an example of this.
What is chronology?
This religion is an example of the first monotheistic religion.
What is Judaism?
This is an example of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
What is Sumer?
A biological process in which the physical characteristics of wild plants and animals change as a result of human intervention
What is the Neolithic period largely defined by?
What are more complex tools, like spears with wooden handles, bone needles, etc. ?
The lives of these people were largely based movements of domesticated animals, like sheep or goats.
What is a pastoral nomad?
Brahman is the name of the god from which religion?
What is hinduism?
The breakdown of the word "Mesopotamia" means this. HINT: use your Latin!
What is "the land between rivers"?
Through __________, farming spread to Egypt, Europe, and India.
What is cultural diffusion?
How knowledge was transmitted during the Stone Age.
What is culturally or orally transmitted?
A school placing students who speak English with accents in lower-level classes without assessing those students' academic skill levels.
What is an example of bias?