Civilizations
Humans practiced this type of lifestyle before the development of agriculture and the establishment of permanent settlements.
Nomadic
Enki, the God of Water. Nabu, the God of Literacy. Anu, the God of the Sky. Enlil, the God of Sky.
In Sumer and other civilizations, the presence of multiple gods was known as this.
Polytheism
River valleys
A civilization's customs, traditions, and beliefs.
Culture
Sargon I created the world's first empire under the rule of this Mesopotamian civilization.
Akkadia
Ancient Sumer and Greece were civilizations of these political territories.
City-states
A government where a religion or deity is recognized as the supreme authority is called this.
Rivers and deserts often provided civilizations with this.
Protection
Prehistory is the period before the invention of this.
Writing
Hammurabi, the Hanging Gardens, and the Tower of Babel (Biblically), are associated with this Kingdom.
Babylon
A food surplus led to the specialization of skills, a division of labor and the development of these.
Social Classes
Buddhism began in India, but became the dominant religion in China because of this?
Trade
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sudan, and Mesoamerica all featured architecture comprised of what geometric shape?
Pyramid
The Neolithic Revolution refers to the moment where humans developed this.
Agriculture
What factor played the biggest role in your class, social status, and fate in ancient civilizations?
Birth
The satraps in Persia, the rajas in India, and the officials of Egypt are all examples of what type of management found in government?
Bureaucracy
This religion was a more structured version of Vedism and an earlier version of modern Hinduism. It is named after the caste class of priests and officials who performed the Vedic rituals.
Brahmanism
The Fertile Crescent stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to which body of water?
Persian Gulf
Timelines
Cities in the Indus Valley took the form of what?
The spreading of one culture to multiple different cultures is referred to as this.
Cultural Diffusion
This religion, which began in the Persian empire, established well-known features of religion including messianism, judgment, heaven and hell, and free will.
Zoroastrianism
Name the river(s) that helped the following civilizations develop:
Mesopotamia, Egpyt, India, China
Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia)
Nile (Egypt)
Indus (India)
Huang He (China)
Discovered by Donald Johanson, this 3.2 million-year-old australopithecine skeleton proved that humans became bipedal before our brain sized increased. It was named this, after a Beatles song.
Persia and Egypt both were civilizations known to have a necropolis, which was a large, elaborate one of these.
Cemeteries