Vocabulary
Clearing land for farming is also known as.
Slash-and-burn farming
This is the name of the sacred literature of the Aryan people.
What is Vedas
What caused the major difficulties in uniting ancient Greeks under a single government?
the geography
What was the dramatic and far-reaching change in human life caused by the discovery of farming?
Neolithic Revolution
Name that century. The 700s
8th century
This is a huge peninsula also known as Asia Minor and is present day Turkey.
Anatolia
Seasonal winds that dominate India’s climate and affect crops.
Monsoons
Immediately following his death, rebellions erupted throughout the Persian Empire.
Darius
The Peloponnesian War was won by
Sparta.
Despite its severity, what reinforced the idea that government had a responsibility for what occurred in society.
Hammurabi’s Code
What does an Archaeologist study to determine what life was like in the ancient past?
Physical Remains
This philosophy that was adopted by Shi Huangdi?
Legalism
What is the term for the unique way of life of a group of people?
culture
What happened If conquered people refused to pay tribute to the Assyrians?
They were exiled
- an executive branch.
-political power limited to citizens.
-laws directly proposed and voted on by citizens.
All of the following were characteristics of Athens direct democracy
What was in wide use during the Neolithic Age?
domesticated animals, irrigation and fire
The 9th century is what time period?
800s
Confucianism stressed a strong belief in this.
Filial piety
What developed during the Zhou dynasty when members of the royal family and noble were granted to use of land that legally belonged to the king.
Feudalism
What were the Minoans were known for?
-bull-leaping for sport
-painted pottery
-female-led religious ceremonies
The Trojan War was fought between who around 1200 B.C.
What allowed early man to migrate to cold climates?
fire
When was the first version of the spoken language (ughh) used?
50,000 years ago
He freed the Hebrews and was a fair leader.
Cyrus
This is the name of the dry grasslands north of the Caucasus.
steppes
The language that English, Sanskrit, Persian, and Spanish are all derived from?
Indo-European.
It appears that, for the next 400 years after the Dorians migrated into Greece, the Greeks somehow lost their ability to use a what?
written language
When did the last ice age end?
10 million years ago
This is a place Archaeologist’s wish to explore.
Site
What was a major advantage of the Chinese system of writing?
People all over China could read it, even if they spoke other languages.