World History: Unit One

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

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

What were the buildings made out of in ancient China?

What civilizations lived in the mountains?

The Chavin were secluded from everyone else.

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

What empire created the Royal Road?

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

What is believing in many gods?

What civilization is known for their stone heads?

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

What is believing in one God?

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

Who are known as the "rubber people"?

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

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

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

Trade was NOT important to the Phoenicians.

The Babylonian empire continued to grow after Hammurabi died.

Babylonia's economy was based on farming.

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

What rivers did the people of China settle along?

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

What civilization traded purple dye all throughout the Mediterranean?

Most early civilizations were polytheistic.

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

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

What kingdom/empire had a monotheistic religion?

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

What was the first empire in world history?

Someone attempted to erase Hatsheput from history.

Job specialization emerged when civilizations started to grow.

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

The Egyptians were the first people to use chariots.

What is the way of life a people follow?

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

Flooding hurt the ancient Egyptian civilization.

What kind of religion is Judaism?

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

There are similarities between the civilizations of Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia.

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

Babylonian society had no class ranks.

What is a component of a civilization?

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

What civilization was located near the Indus River?

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

Who is known for their communication system and military tactics?

What civilization was located near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?