Terms To Know
Humans went from being nomadic to settling down mainly because of this reason
What is "agriculture"?
Term for staying put and settled instead of migrated
What is "sedentary"?
Middle Eastern area that is believed to have started farming
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
Type of government in which the people rule through representatives who govern according to law
What is a "republic"?
Means to come into existence
What is "emerge"?
Humans who survives by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants
What are "hunter-gatherers"?
The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What are the "Tigris and Euphrates rivers"?
A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power
What is an "absolute monarchy"?
A complex, highly organized social order
What is a "civilization"?
A member of a group whose economy revolves around its herd of domesticated animals, with which the group periodically moves to find new grazing land
What is a "pastoral nomad"?
The way in which the Nile River flows
What is "South to North"?
Type of government the Romans had after 509 BC
What is a "republic"?
A biological process in which the physical characteristics of wild plants/animals change as a result of human intervention
What is "domestication"?
What is considered the Old Stone Age that existed between 2.5 million years BC to 10,000 BC
What is "Paleolithic"?
The first urban civilization and formation of city states come from this area
What is "Sumer"?
A series of rulers who come from the same family
What is a "dynasty"?
Using wedge-shaped characters, this is one of the earliest forms of writing
What is "cuneiform"?
This is one of the first crops to be grown and harvested in the Fertile Crescent
What is "wheat"?
The large structure located in Greece which was built in dedication to the goddess Athena
What is the "Parthenon"?
System of government where the people carry it out through direct participation
What is a "direct democracy"?
A political unit consisting of an independent city and the lands surrounding it
What is a "city-state"?
Location where the earliest civilization formed
What is "Mesopotamia"?
The roles that Sumerian temples played during their lifetime
What is/are "city center and grain storage"?
The title for an Egyptian king
What is a "pharaoh"?
How diviners in the Shang Dynasty used oracle bones
What is "fortune telling" or "to predict the future"?
The time period referred to as the New Stone Age, lasting from 10,000 BC to 4500 BC
What is "Neolithic"?
The body of water that ancient Middle Eastern empires surrounded
What is the "Mediterranean Sea"?
A large political unit in which a number of different lands or peoples are governed by a single ruler
What is an "empire"?
Name for the 200 year period of peace and prosperity for the Romans
What is the "Pax Romana"?
The jobs most people had by 1 A.D.
What are "farmers and/or herders"?
Area of land where the Roman Empire began as a city-state
What is a "peninsula" and/or "Italian peninsula"?
Term for ranking of groups of people according to their importance, status, or power
What is a "hierarchy"?
Term the Greeks referred to themselves as
What is "Hellenes"?
The three results from an increase in food production within a society
What is/are "more money, increased population, and/or more time for things such as art and buildings"?
Country where the Mauryan and Gupta dynasties ruled
What is "India"?
The alliance formed within Greek city-states to defeat the Persian Empire which victory resulted in the creation of the Athenian Empire
What is/was the "Delian League"?