Category 1: Early Humans & Neolithic Revolution
100 pts: Someone with no permanent home in search of food.
What is a nomad?
100 pts: What was the written language of Mesopotamia called?
What is Cuneiform?
A religion consisting of many gods
What is Polytheism?
Which Indian Religion rejects the Caste System
What is Buddhism?
Obtaining food by hunting, fishing, and foraging describes…
What is a hunter-gatherer?
What did Hammurabi create the first of?
What is the first written legal code, "Hammurabi's Code"
Ancient Egyptians had little concern for the after-life. True or False?
False
What idea, within Hinduism, supports the Caste System idea and means a persons responsibility or role in society?
What is Dharma?
300 pts: The Neolithic Revolution is known for…
the transition from hunting/gathering to agriculture and cities
The type of religion practiced by Ancient Mesopotamians.
What is Polytheism?
What two types of Power did the Egyptian Pharaoh hold?
What is political and religious power?
What is the goal of a Buddhist practitioner who follows the Eightfold Path?
What is Nirvana?
What was NOT an innovation made by Paleolithic Humans?
A. Stone Tools B. Spoken language C. Written Laws D. Use of Fire
What are written laws?
What is the most famous idea, taken from Hammurabi's Code?
What is, "An eye for an eye"?
This group made up about 80% of the population of Egypt.
Who are peasants and slaves?
A sum of all good and bad actions in a lifetime, based on dharma, is called...
What is Karma?
What were the effects of the Neolithic Revolution?
Name at least 2
Surplus Food Supply, Specialization of Jobs, Permanent Settlements, civilization, agriculture, domestication of animals.
What was the first ever book written by humans, written in Mesopotamian Cuneiform?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The religious practice of mummification also allowed Egyptians to become experts in this:
What is surgery?
Name 2 categories on within the Indian Caste system, along with their role in society.
Kshatriya: Warriors and Kings
Vaishya: Farmers and Merchants, "money-makers"
Sudra: Lowest caste, bury bodies, manual labor, etc.