Paleo/Neo
River Valley Civilizations
Comparisons and Contextualization
Vocabulary
100
The lack of government in this time period, before agriculture was invented
What is the Neolithic Era
100
Kings governed their city-state-the city and surrounding farmland, in Sumer
What is a decentralized government
100
These ancient civilizations were decentralized
What are Harappa/Indus River Valley and Mesopotamia/Sumer (Ancient China will be accepted as well but is not necessary because it was not always decentralized)
100
A government in which is the authority and responsibility of governing rests with a small group at the highest level of government
What is a centralized government
200
An invention that caused civilization to be formed and for people to have a surplus of food
What is agriculture
200
The mythical king of the Sumerian city-state Ur that sought for immortality in this story
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh
200
The Hebrews believed in ______ while most other religions were ______ at the time
What is monotheism/one God and polytheistic/many Gods
200
A group of pastoral nomads from the Asian Steppe that eventually migrated across Afro-Eurasia
What are the Indo-Europeans
300
The first place for agriculture to appear
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia or Sumer
300
The late form of Ancient Egyptian writing
What is Demonic
300
The difference in Phoenician writing and cuneiform.
What is Phoenician writing had symbols which represented words and cuneiform was pictographic
300
Bones used in Ancient China to communicate with the gods, spirits, and ancestors
What are oracle bones
400
Neolithic peoples had cave paintings on the walls
What is the belief of sympathetic magic
400
The two rivers located in China that people used to plant crops
What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Yahtzee River
400
Christianity and Islam both got their ideas from a religion made during early civilization
What is how the Jewish people impacted modern religious ideas
400
The later Egyptian writing
What is demonic
500
Caused people to be hunter/gatherers and to live as nomads
What is the impact of geography on people during the Neolithic Era
500
The Chinese and Egyptians were protected from invasions from outsiders for this reason.
What is the abundance of natural barriers
500
People in China developed writing for this reason
What is religious purposes/talking to Gods and ancestors
500
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
What is a bureaucracy