Origins of Civilization
This group of people moves from place to place in search of food.
What are nomads?
This river runs through the center of Egypt, providing fertile soil for farming on its banks.
What is the Nile?
This is an account written by someone who had a direct connection with an event.
What is a primary source?
This is another name for the structure of social classes found in the ancient Middle East.
What is hierarchy?
This mountain range covers the Northern part of the subcontinent.
What are the Himalayas?
This is the name for the life-changing event that introduced farming to society.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Who was Osiris?
This is the first step you always take when reading a primary source.
What is sourcing?
Most ancient civilizations practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheistic?
These seasonal winds bring rain or dry air depending on the season.
What are monsoons?
This is another name for the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Period?
This artifact helped archaeologists decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is the historical thinking skill you use when you actually read through the document.
What is close reading?
This is the name for early Sumerian writing.
What is cuneiform?
This is the driest region on the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
What is surplus?
This Pharaoh expanded trade with foreign nations during the New Kingdom.
Who was Hatshepsut?
You do this when you look at the events happening around the same time that your primary source was created.
What is contextualization?
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates
This Varna includes those that are meant to study and teach.
What are Brahmins?
The introduction of jobs like artisan is an example of this feature of civilization.
What is job specialization?
This king united Northern & Southern Egypt before the Old Kingdom.
Who is King Menes?
This is how you verify facts in your primary source.
What is corroboration?
The Persian economy was an example of one of these.
What is a money economy?
This religion was founded partially as a response to the Caste system in India.
What is Buddhism?