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What river helped sustain life in ancient Egypt?
The Nile
What had a greater impact in the ancient world? People on the environment? Or the environment on people? Explain your answer.
The environment had a greater impact. If it were not for rivers and usable soil to grow crops, life would not have been sustainable in dryer climates.
What are dynasties?
A succession of rulers of the same line of descent.
What did Sumerians (lived in Mesopotamia) carve cuneiform into?
Clay tablets
Where did the earliest civilizations in China appear?
In the Huang He River Valley in the Northeastern part of the country.
Name 3 examples of specialization (different jobs) that we could find in a social system (hierarchy triangle)
Rulers, government workers, priests, architects, soldiers, artisans, builders, hunters, peasants, slaves
Why do we know less about the development of civilization in the Indus River Valley?
While there is much archeological evidence at this point in history, we have been unable to decipher any of their written language.
Name two factors that contributed to the rise of Egypt.
Fertile deltas, trade routes, strong military, central government
How might isolation help a civilization develop?
It is difficult to invade or attack this isolated civilization.
What was different about the Nile River that made it soimportant?
It floods regularly at the same time every season.
How were government and religion mixed in ancient Egypt?
The pharaoh was also seen as a god. Their laws were also divine, or given by priests (the word of God).
How might isolation hurt a civilization’s development?
It is harder to interact, trade, and mutually grow with other civilizations.
What are the two rivers responsible for making the fertile crescent so fertile?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What do we know about the social systems of the early civilizations in the Indus Valley?
Their is no clear answer but it seems they lived as equals and in peace.
Give 3 of the characteristics of a civilization.
Cities, Government and Law, System of Writing, Specialization, Social Systems, Complex Technology, and Organized Religion
What was significant about Egypt's government?
The two separate kingdoms joined together to become more powerful.
What is a city-state?
Is a city that is like a small independent country, due to it having its own laws and government.
How did geography influence the development of civilization in the Indus Valley?
Their location near other civilizations meant they could trade with each other.
What is theocracy?
Government or laws of divine authority (in the name or God)
What do we know about the development of writing in the Indus Valley?
Stone seals and tablets, pottery, jewelry, and even copper weights all bear the same language. The problem is that no one has been able to crack the code and solve the mystery of this ancient language.
What do we know about the development of government and law in the Indus Valley?
It seems incredibly unlikely that cities as highly organized as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro would have been able to be constructed without some sort of governing organization to plan and then construct them
What was significant about Egypt’s system of writing - Hieroglyphics?
Their writing system was a combination of symbols and pictures like animals, plants, and people.
What is significant about the system of writing used in China?
The Chinese have a pictographic language which has thousands of characters to be learned. This written language has developed over time, but in the beginning it was made up of symbols that had looked somewhat like the thing being described
What do we know about the development of government and laws in China?
These cities needed formal leadership to keep them together, and as such, the first dynasty is said to have begun, known as the Xia. Then came the Shang dynasty, and the Qin.
This place was known for farming the Tigris River, building ziggurats, Sumerians, and carving in clay tablets.
Mesopotamia