World History: Unit One

Most early civilizations were polytheistic.

The Babylonian empire continued to grow after Hammurabi died.

Who are known as the "rubber people"?

The Chavin were secluded from everyone else.

The Nile River Valley relied on what river to help make the soil fertile?

What is believing in many gods?

What civilization was located near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

Trade was NOT important to the Phoenicians.

What were the buildings made out of in ancient China?

Babylonian society had no class ranks.

What civilization was located near the Indus River?

Who is known for their communication system and military tactics?

What was the first empire in world history?

What kingdom/empire is known for their army with the name Immortals?

Flooding hurt the ancient Egyptian civilization.

Babylonia's economy was based on farming.

Ancient China relied on what river(s) to help the civilization flourish?

Empires are easy to create but they can be difficult to maintain.

Who created the first library to maintain the history of Sumeria and Babylonia?

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

What is believing in one God?

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

What kingdom/empire had a monotheistic religion?

Who was well liked by the people he overtook in the Persian Empire?

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

Someone attempted to erase Hatsheput from history.

What rivers did the people of China settle along?

There are similarities between the civilizations of Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia.

What is the way of life a people follow?

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

A pharaoh tried to make the New kingdom of Egypt monotheistic.

What is a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle cart?

What kingdom/empire was known as a trading center with the Roman Empire?

What civilization is known for their stone heads?

What is a component of a civilization?

Hammurabi's Code is known for "an eye for an eye" crime and punishment system.

What civilization traded purple dye all throughout the Mediterranean?

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

Job specialization emerged when civilizations started to grow.

What civilizations lived in the mountains?

What kind of religion is Judaism?

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

What was the set of laws called that was created in Babylon?

Paleolithic art involved a lot of people on the cave walls.

What empire created the Royal Road?

The Egyptians were the first people to use chariots.

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

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