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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mesopotamia means the "land between the rivers".

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

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

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

Land bridges allowed for...

Homo sapiens evolved in Africa sometime...

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

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

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

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

The rise of agriculture is associated with...

Bipedalism

Cuneiform

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

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

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

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

ma'at

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Nile River allowed for...

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

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

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

How was trade helpful in the spread of Islam?

How were canals revolutionary for early civilizations?

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

Anthropomorphic

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

Most early humans were...

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

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

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

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

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

The Sumerians were associated with which civilization?

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

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

Historians organize Egyptian history using the system of _____________ dynasties.

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

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

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

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

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