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What is culture?
The unique way of life of a group of people
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What is the fertile crescent?
Arc of land in the middle east that was great for farming
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What are pharaohs?
Rulers considered to be gods by Egyptians
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What are the Himalayas?
The Indian Subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by the tallest mountains on earth
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What is Indo-European?
Many of the languages of Europe and West Asia descend from this common language including: English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Celtic, Sanskrit...
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What are hominids?
human-like ancestors that walked upright
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What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia means "land between two rivers" because it lies between the ___ & ____
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What is papyrus?
Egyptian paper
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What is Mandate of Heaven?
The idea that dynasties had divine right to rule the people of China
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What is the vedas?
The religious text of the Aryans that migrated into India
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What is the Neolithic Revolution?
A time of drastic change when people started farming
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What is cultural diffusion?
Sumerians traded with neighboring people of Mesopotamia and spread their ideas and customs through a process known as ___.
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Who are the Hyksos?
Invaders from Palestine that conquered and controlled Egypt at the end of the Middle Kingdom
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What is a citadel?
The well-planned cities of Harappa contained a well fortified area which contained the major buildings of the city.
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Who are the Hittite?
Through their use of chariots and iron the ___ Empire was able to conquer and dominate lands in Southwest Asia
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What is specialization (or division of labor)?
A surplus of food enabled people to begin to do other jobs
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What is Hammurabi's Code?
A set of laws that often used retaliation as punishment for a crime ("eye for an eye")
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What is there is an afterlife (or a description of the judgments placed on people for deeds done during life)
In contrast with the Sumerians, Egyptians religious ideas included the idea that after death...
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Who is the Xia?
According to legend, China's first dynasty was established because of flood control and irrigation innovations on the Huang He River
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What is the caste system?
A rigorous social hierarchy that was established to separate groups of people in India
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What is record keeping?
Five characteristics of civilization are: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, ___, and advanced technology
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What is wheel, sail, plow
first to use bronze, number system based on 60, arches, design of the ziggurat, cuneiform
Sumerians had many advances in science and technology including... (name 3)
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What is the Rosetta Stone?
The Egyptian form of writing was decoded thanks to a discovery of an object with inscriptions in Greek and two forms of hieroglyphics
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What is: Building roads and canals, developing coined money, OR produced cast iron
The Zhou Dynasty greatly improved transportation and the economy of early China through innovations (describe one).
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What is 1) Brahmins, 2) Warriors, 3) traders and landowners, and 4) peasants
The four levels of the caste system
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