AP World: Ch. 1, 2, and World Religions Review

Which function in government did Plato feel philosophers should be in and why?

The rise of agriculture is associated with...

How were canals revolutionary for early civilizations?

Mesopotamia means the "land between the rivers".

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are associated with which river valley civ?

The earliest transition to agriculture occurred first in the Middle East.

Modern Iraq is where most of the Indus River Civilization was located?

Which of the following was not part of the free, landowning class in Mesopotamia?

During the transition to crop cultivation, women were the primary gatherers of wild plant foods.

Cuneiform

Historians organize Egyptian history using the system of _____________ dynasties.

Most early humans were...

THIS Mesopotamian ruler was the first to unite many cities under one king and capital:

Destabilization and fragmentation of the Abbasid empire allowed Islam to spread to larger areas.

Along with metallurgy, mummification was a technology used in the Indus River Valley civ.

“Systems failure” that brought down the Indus Valley cities included...

Control of a geographic area as a means of power, cities, status distinctions, & record keeping are all...

The Sumerians were associated with which civilization?

How did Christianity’s development from Judaism help it spread?

How could a popular religion, like Hinduism, aid an emperor?

Edicts of Milan, of Nicaea, & of Thessalonica were important for Roman legalization & acceptance of Christianity.

Shared aspects of culture include shared religious beliefs, similar values, learned patterns of expression & action, and

Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Indus Valley civs were all based on fertile floodplains and river valleys.

Confucianism was dominant philosophy (even a sort of a religion) between which time periods in ancient Chinese history?

Which building material did both the Indus River Valley civ and the Mesopotamian civ primarily use?

How was trade helpful in the spread of Islam?

Most cave art is thought to only represent religious and mythological topics.

Homo sapiens evolved in Africa sometime...

Land bridges allowed for...

Hinduism spread because poetry made it more accessible to the lower castes & Hindu gods were popularized in literature.

It is believed that many species of large mammals may have disappeared between 40,000 & 13,000 years ago because...

Ziggurats were used as storehouses for grain, pottery, and sometimes weapons.

Tools and other useful objects make up most of the metal artifacts unearthed in the Indus River region.

The religions of farming communities tended to focus on...

The Nile River allowed for...

The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between about 8000 & 2000 BCE was called:

One of the main characteristics which set Judaism apart from many other ancient religions was that it was...

Political conflicts with the ________________ led to forceful separations of Jewish people from ancestral lands.

Anthropomorphic

These three religions are/were monotheistic: Christianity, Confucianism, and Zoroastrianism.

Confucianism taught self-reflection & duty to the state. Legalists espoused strong centralized rule & government.

The culture that developed in Egypt was unique largely because of:

Bipedalism

Region that gave birth to earliest known civ in the Indian subcontinent is located in what modern country?

Ziggurats were extensively used by the Egyptians and the Indus River Valley civilizations.

Amorite ruler of Babylon best known for a code of laws and for principles to be used in legal cases:

System of writing, pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, concepts, & was used for official inscriptions:

Both of these religions developed during the classical period of Indian history & both emphasized Dharma and samsara:

The Achaemenid Empire of the Persians helped to spread...

Head of Egyptian state and earthly representation of the god Osiris:

THIS academic practice is a question and answer method of analysis for topics and discussions:

ma'at

Trade & missionaries and state support from the Mauryan emperor Ashoka contributed to the spread of Buddhism.

These types of people were mobile populations without many material goods:

Egyptian religion was largely based around the environment, particularly the...