Civilizations
Elements of Civilization
Mes-o-Potamia
Harappa/Indo-European
Vocab
100
This group of people developed the Caste System to provide social order and settled modern India.
What are the Aryans?
100
These begin to make their appearance when farmers begin to make a surplus of food and need a place to exchange goods.
What are Cities (In each of these cities was a temple or shrine to the Gods Egyptians-Pyramids, Ur-Ziggurat, Harappans-Citadel)?
100
This place is best defined as 'land between the rivers' where the first civilizations arose.
What is Mesopotamia? Bonus:What Rivers are the?
100
The biggest influence that the Indo-Europeans have had on the world today is this.
What is Language?
100
This is the term used to describe that there are fewer groups but the groups are becoming more densely populated.
What is Intensification?
200
Little is known about this Civilization because of their writing system of 400 characters.
What are the Harappans?
200
This developed because people no longer needed to grow their own food and could focus on other tasks.
What is Specialization?
200
This was the first legal code/set of laws written down in ancient Babylon.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
This is the level of the Caste system with Generals and Warriors?
What is Kshatriyas?
200
This term means "New Stone Age" or "Agricultural Revolution".
What is Neolithic Revolution?
300
This is the term used to describe having more than you need of something to survive.
What is Surplus?
300
This is a division caused by the possession of goods or resources in a civilization.
What is Social Class?
300
This is one of the first written languages to be discovered in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
300
Seasonal winds in the Indus Valley and India are called this.
What are Monsoons.
300
This term refers to the process used in Big Era 3, of clearing away land for farming use.
What is Slash-and-Burn?
400
Name two of the oldest Civilizations we know about.
What are Catal Huyuk, Harappans, Ur, Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Aryans? Bonus: which of the two civilizations interacted/traded with one another?
400
This was necessary in a civilization to make sure people have record of events and trading deals.
What is writing and record keeping? Bonus: Name two different types of writing from this time and what they wrote on?
400
These are the benefits of living in Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.
What are that rivers provide excellent growing conditions with irrigation and the ability to trade goods such as bronze?
400
This is the oldest known religion that develops in the Indus Valley and uses Karma to determine how someone will be reincarnated.
What is Hinduism?
400
This is the 'Great Thaw'.
What is the ending of the ice age around 15,000 years ago?
500
This is the process of taming which lead to the development of civilizations. Also name the two things that are tamed.
What is Domestication? Plants and Animals.
500
Pharaohs, kings and priests were the people in charge of this aspect of civilizations. Hint: Think Hammurabi
What are Central Governments and Law Codes?
500
Because of food surplus not everyone farmed, so people needed to specialize so to get food they engaged in this.
What is Trade and Bartering?
500
These are all 5 levels of the Caste System. (Name them or tell me who is in each)
What are Brahms (Priests), Kshatriyas (Rulers and Warriors), Vaishyas (Peasants and Traders), Shudras (Laborers), Untouchables worthless pointless should not be in existence freshman
500
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a Dynasty?