Early Civilizations

What rivers did the people of China settle along?

What civilization traded purple dye all throughout the Mediterranean?

T or F: Trade was NOT important to the Phoenicians.

What is the way of life a people follow?

The first writing system of the Aryans developed around 1000 B.C.

T or F: The use of fire was just to keep warm during the cold in the Paleolithic Age.

What civilizations lived in the mountains?

What was the land called between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

What is a component of a civilization?

What is an administrative org. that relies on nonelective officials and regular procedures?

T or F: Flooding hurt the ancient Egyptian civilization.

T or F: The Chavin were secluded from everyone else.

What is the study of human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils?

What is A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements?

What civilization used trash chutes from houses to a specific garbage can?

"wedge-shaped,"a system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to create impressions on a clay tablet

T or F: In the Shang Dynasty, they buried items with the dead bc they believed in an afterlife.

What is the study of past societies through an analysis of the items people left behind?

T or F: Paleolithic art involved a lot of people on the cave walls.

Simplified version of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egpyt for business transactions,record keeping,and other daily needs

What is a government established by divine authority?

A place where two rivers or streams join to become one.

"priest carvings" or "sacred writings", a complex system of writing that used both pictures and more abstract forms

T or F: Job specialization emerged when civilizations started to grow.

What is a state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside?

What is believing in many gods?

What were the buildings made out of in the Shang/Zhou dynasty?

What kind of religion is Judaism?

Who are known as the "rubber people"?

What early civilization was plagued by monsoons?

What is believing in one God?

T or F: There are similarities between the civilizations of Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia.

What is an upper class whose wealth is based on land?

T or F: Most early civilizations were polytheistic.

What civilization is known for their stone heads?