4785634535 | What does fossil, linguistic, and genetic DNA support? | Homoerectus and homosapiens migrating out of Africa | 0 | |
4785658785 | What is the first region of the world where there is evidence of permanent agricultural villages? | The eastern Mediterranean | 1 | |
4785675181 | What caused the Neolithic Revolution? | Small villages surrounded by agricultural villages | 2 | |
4785681797 | What did the transition from hunting to gathering cause? | patriarchal families | 3 | |
4785922051 | What did paleolithic hunter-gatherers use fire for? | warmth, hunting, and foraging | 4 | |
4787950650 | What are some of the main characteristics of the human species? | an opposable thumb on each hand, relatively high and regular sexual drive, omnivores, facial expressions, and a distinctive human brain | 5 | |
4787962446 | What were the most significant human achievements before the rise of agriculture? | development of speech, beliefs, imporvment in their tools, and the spread of human species throughout the earth. | 6 | |
4787997344 | What were the patterns of early human migration? | starting from Africa, then migrating to the Mediterranean and Europe, east to Asia, then finally across the seas to the Americas and Oceania. | 7 | |
4788066066 | homo sapiens sapiens | the most successful human species that emerged at the end of the Paleolithic period | 8 | |
4788222120 | What are the main differences between an agricultural and a hunting and gathering economy? | agricultural economy allowed people to settle while hunters and gatherers moved around | 9 | |
4791486349 | How did agriculture encourage technological change? | humans began using metals as tools | 10 | |
4792000060 | Why are nomadic societies important in world history? | nomadic societies spread important knowledge in travel, religion, domestication, and warfare | 11 | |
4795619481 | What did hunting and gathering lead to? | agriculture | 12 | |
4812957149 | Egypt was a polytheistic empire | they believed in many gods | 13 | |
4812964639 | Egypt built pyramids to | Store the dead bodies of rulers | 14 | |
4812972615 | The Old age | the building of Egyptian empire (advances in agriculture, metalworking, and transportation) | 15 | |
4812972616 | Middle Age | expansion and improvment of the Egyptian empire | 16 | |
4812973524 | New age | the decline of the Egyptian empire | 17 | |
4812983152 | The Nile River's floods | annually created massive destruction | 18 | |
4815128924 | Code of Hammurabi | A list of rules written by Hammurabi to regulate his people that came with punishments for harsh crimes | 19 | |
4815147785 | Egyptian ruling | A pharaoh who is supposably "god on earth" and maintains most of the power | 20 | |
4815215756 | Mesopotamia | the first civilization built completely from scratch | 21 | |
4815223247 | Why is Mesopotamia important? | It developed a system of writting called cuneiforn | 22 | |
4815267778 | Why is Mesopotamian govenment important? | It maintained and expanded agricultural production | 23 | |
4815290921 | Why was Enema Elisha written? | To assert a special relationship between the city of Babylon and her gods | 24 | |
4815299259 | What supports the land bridge territory? | Data that shows a close genetic relationship between the Indians and indigenous Siberians | 25 | |
4815308377 | Where did the Bantu people spread their language? | Other African regions | 26 | |
4821115997 | Why do we know less about Harappan civilization than about Egypt? | we can't translate their writting system and we don't know what caused their civilization to fall | 27 | |
4821131881 | Where was Harappa located? | Along the Indus River | 28 | |
4821160149 | What special features did Harrapan cities have? | A system of running water and drainage systems, and a community bath | 29 | |
4821183417 | Harappan weapond | bronze tipped arrows | 30 | |
4821190912 | The fall of Harappa was called | the Vedic and Epic ages | 31 | |
4821204534 | What did the Aryans encourage? | tight levels of village organization such as village chiefs, defense tribes, and patriarchal control | 32 | |
4821234758 | Aryan literary epics | were about Aryan gods, mythical battles, and mystical stories | 33 | |
4821872832 | ideographic symbols | chinese writing that consisted of a combination of knotted ropes and scratches of lines | 34 | |
4821890085 | How did the Shang impact the develpment of chinese civilization? | silk manufactoring, ancestor worship, important rituals, horseback riding | 35 | |
4821912404 | What caused the collapse of early chinese civilization? | the Zhou dynasty's inability to handle disorder | 36 | |
4821930290 | Civilization in the Americas was different compared to the previous ones because | they had little animals to use for domestication, travel was difficult, no metals were available for tools | 37 | |
4821951605 | Olmecs established the first civilization in the Americas | featured irrigation agriculture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings of calendrical and writing systems | 38 | |
4821966881 | Judiasm | a monotheistic religion that stressed God's focus on humankind, and injunctions for ethical behavior among people in obedience to divine commandments | 39 | |
4826076184 | River Valley civilizations flourished because | they had access to water for agriculture and trade | 40 | |
4826081578 | China became popular because | they had silk that everyone wanted | 41 | |
4826086463 | China broke into eight city-states during the Zhou dynasty | This created problems when the Mongols came because united they stand, divided they fall | 42 | |
4826104451 | Three early dynasties of China | Xia (rice and silk), Shang (oracle bones), Zhou (Mandate to Heaven) | 43 | |
4826124082 | Confucius was a man of the Zhou dynasty that | created Confucianism (a philosophy that basically teaches you to live your life for yourself with morals and virtues instead of for the gods) that was used during the Zhou dynasty | 44 | |
4837807931 | River Valley | Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Harappan, and Ancient China | 45 | |
4851290691 | Renaissance | 46 | ||
4851300357 | Classics | 47 | ||
4851300358 | Dark Ages | 48 | ||
4851302168 | Industrialization | 49 | ||
4851304236 | World Wars | 50 | ||
4851344889 | The Mesopotamian government | maintained and expanded agricultural production. | 51 | |
4851349495 | Assyrian forced other weaker nations | to pay tribute to them. | 52 | |
4851354255 | The emergence of social Mesopotamian hierarchies | supported the unequal distribution of surplus food. | 53 | |
4851359973 | Assyrian military conquests | caused Jewish diasporic communities. | 54 | |
4851366409 | Landholding aristocracies tend to be | the dominant class of most societies. | 55 | |
4851375699 | Early civilization shared | urban centers, growing populations, and writing centers. | 56 | |
4851385524 | Myths provide insights about | the cultures and traditions of their societies. | 57 | |
4851393763 | The expansion of communication and trade in Afro-Eurasia | resulted in scientific exchange (decimal and concept of zero) | 58 | |
4851414790 | Confucian social hierarchy | privileged government officials in China | 59 | |
4851435547 | Confucian social order taught | loyalty to the ruler, filial obedience to one's father, and respect for the old | 60 | |
4851455061 | Confucianism taught | the virtue and duties of family members | 61 | |
4851463396 | Confucianism focused on social cohesion | but Daoism centered on human connection to nature. | 62 | |
4851472401 | The Code of Hammurabi (Babylon) | was the first written law | 63 | |
4851479806 | The Greek physician Hippocrates looked more to medical causes and cures rather than | supernatural causes and cures | 64 | |
4851487238 | Greek dramas were influenced by | religious and moral values | 65 | |
4851492629 | Christianity and Islam are both | monotheistic | 66 | |
4851496532 | Judaism and Hinduism both had | written scriptures and an ethical code to live by | 67 | |
4851502778 | The Vedic regions of Hinduism | practiced the caste system | 68 | |
4851508742 | Hinduism taught a cyclical nature of | death and rebirth | 69 | |
4851512312 | Buddhism became more popular than Hinduism because | there was no caste system | 70 | |
4851529577 | Rome was depopulated by | Germanic and Central Asian peoples | 71 | |
4851540587 | As Rome migrated east to the Byzantine Empire | Western peasants binded into feudal societies. | 72 | |
4884121698 | During the Mesoamerican culture of 400 BCE-800 CE, | monumental structure were built for religious rituals. | 73 | |
4884126831 | A Buddhism statue in India is an example of | cross-cultural interaction. | 74 | |
4884132873 | Romans and Myans both used religious practices | in order to legitimatize their authority. | 75 | |
4884147048 | The Chinese emperor Xunxi | relected the principle of Confucianism. | 76 | |
4884159599 | The Chinese empire of Xunzi (Confucianism) | differed from the Hindu society of the Gupta Empire. | 77 | |
4884164225 | The Chinese Emperor Xunzi recruited bureaucrats | on the basis of education rather than noble birth. | 78 | |
4884169972 | The Qin China and Maryann India dynasties | implemented a centralized bureaucracy. | 79 | |
4884174775 | The reliance on a merit-based bureaucracy | resulted into eh centralization of the Han Dynasty in China. | 80 | |
4884180041 | The Han and Roman empires exchanged goods | via the Silk Road | 81 |
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