Ancient Mesopotamia
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is located between.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris?
The Egyptian Pharaohs were believed to be Gods and had absolute rule while Mesopotamian Kings were considered to just be representatives of Gods.
How were the Pharaohs from Ancient Egypt different than the Kings in Mesopotamia?
Geographers name for the landmass that includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
The founder of Buddhism.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The oldest written detailed legal code of laws in human history.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The system of writing developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The largest river in the world that the Ancient Egyptians relied on for drinking, bathing and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
Seasonal winds blowing dry air westward from October to February creating powerful storms dominate India's climate.
What are monsoons?
The four teachings main teachings of Buddha that comprise of the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
What are the four noble truths of Buddhism?
This often determined the severity of punishment under the Hammurabi's Code.
What is social class?
The name for the curved shape region of the Mesopotamia which depicts the richness of the land.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The act of embalming and then drying a corpse of to prevent it from decaying.
What is mummification?
Another name for the Indus Valley. This area includes the Kalibangan, Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa cities.
What is the Harappan civilization?
The place reached that releases one from selfishness and pain in the Buddhist religion.
What is Nirvana?
In the Hammurabi Code, this crime was punishable by having both hands chopped off.
What happened if a son hits his father?
The belief that many different gods controlled the various forces in nature.
What is polytheism?
The immense structure that serves as a final resting place after death for Egyptian Kings in the Old Kingdom.
What are the Pyramids?
This city was the first civilization to have houses with indoor plumbing and private bathrooms with toilets.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
The Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration are guidelines for this Buddhist teaching.
What is the Eight Fold Path?
1772 B.C.
When was the year Hammurabi's Code was written?
The Mesopotamians utilized various materials and innovations to make technological discoveries. They were the first to use the potter's wheel to make better pottery, irrigation to get water to their crops, bronze metal to make strong tools and weapons and looms to weave cloth from wool. The ingenuity of the Mesopotamians led to new technologies previously unknown that improved their society tremendously.
What are technology advancements developed by Mesopotamians?
The ancient Egyptians developed many technologies that benefited their society. The Egyptians developed a calendar to plan for planting crops, created a system of numbers to help build structures and collect taxes, and developed medical practices to heal broken bones and treat wounds. The advancements in many fields led to new technologies that enriched life in ancient Egypt.
What are technology advancements developed by ancient Egyptians?
Environmental factors contributed significantly to the to the decline of the Indus Valley culture. Satellite images reveal shifts in tectonic plates caused earthquakes and floods that altered the course of the Indus River. Water sources for people and crops in the Indus Valley dried up. The satellite images provide clear evidence that environmental changes led to the end of the Indus Valley.
What factors caused the end of the Indus Valley culture?
Buddha practiced asceticism due to the belief that denying ones self of any pleasures was the path to enlightenment. Buddha originally started practicing asceticism because it promoted not indulging yourself (and practically making yourself starve to death). However, overtime, he learned people needed a balance of pleasure and self restriction to achieve enlightenment. The practice of Asceticism to obtain enlightenment ultimately led Buddha to realize this practice lacked a true life balance.
Why did Buddha practice asceticism and why did he eventually quit practicing it?
Hammurabi's Code required accusers to bring the person they have accused of a crime into court to determine they're innocence. Many of the laws required the accused to jump in the Euphrates River to prove their innocence. If the accused washed up to shore safely, they were deemed innocent. But if they drowned, then they were guilty. While the Hammurabi Code included a system to determine guilty or innocence, some of the methods were unreasonable and dangerous.
How could one prove him/herself innocent according to Hammurabi's Code.