Neolithic
The Neolithic Revolution is considered a major turning point in human history because people shifted from hunting and gathering to this way of life.
What is farming (or agriculture)?
This rich, fertile soil left behind by annual river floods made land ideal for early agriculture.
What is silt?
Mesopotamia developed along these two major rivers in the Middle East
tigeris and euphrates
The Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He societies are collectively categorized by historians as these.
What are River Valley Civilizations?
What are some religious practices seen in ancient China?
During the Neolithic Revolution, the production of an excess amount of food directly led to this demographic change.
Double Points
What is an increase in population (or food surplus leading to population growth)?
The early river valley civilizations were all situated near dependable sources of this vital resource.
What is fresh water?
This large, arc-shaped region of fertile land in the Middle East was well suited for early farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Both ancient Egypt and ancient China shared this common achievement in record-keeping.
What are written forms of communication (writing systems)?
This term describes the religious belief in only one God.
What is monotheism?
This vocabulary term refers to an excess amount of food beyond immediate survival needs.
What is a food surplus?
This term describes the exchange of ideas, goods, and cultural practices between different groups of people.
What is cultural diffusion
This group of people is recognized as the very first to develop a civilization in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
Most early river valley civilizations shared this religious belief structure involving multiple deities.
What is Polytheism?
name 2-3 concepts related to Judaism
(codes,figures, etc)
ten commandments
abraham moses
torah synagogue
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
hunter gather for food and traveling
Historians study this discipline to show connections between people and places and to understand how location shapes culture.
What is geography?
Human environment inturaction
Early Mesopotamians modified their environment to increase food production by digging these channels.
What are irrigation canals?
The development of written language systems and urban city planning only occurred once human societies became this.
What are complex societies (or civilizations)?
Judaism served as the historical and religious foundation for these two later major world religions.
What is Christianity and Islam?
Evidence shows that Egyptians grew wheat and barley more than 7,000 years ago, which falls into this historical period.
What is the Neolithic Revolution (or Neolithic Era)?
This historical thinking skill involves describing in specific detail the circumstances that led up to a historical event
What is historical context?
Mesopotamia was organized politically into these independent units consisting of a city and its surrounding farmlands.
What are city-states?
The primary reason all four major early civilizations began in river valleys was access to water and this type of land.
What is fertile soil (fertile farmland)?
Or
River Valleys
Early ancient civilizations in Egypt, Sumer, and China practiced polytheism, whereas this group of Middle Eastern people was strictly monotheistic.
Who are the Israelites (or Jews)?