Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations

Unit 1 Review:Ancient Civilizations

How did the environment impact the development of Chinese civilization?

How did the relations between Egypt & Nubia change over time?

How did the Olmec & Chavin meet the challenges of their different respective

environments?

How did the kingship in Zhou China compare to that in Mesopotamia and Egypt?

Compare Confucianism, Daoism & Legalism

Compare human life for the Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

How did the status of women in Nubia compare to that in other civilizations?

How did plant & animal domestication set the scene for emergence of civilization?

How did the Nile River environment compare to Mesopotamia’s?

How and why did writing develop and evolve?

Compare and Contrast the writing system in the Indus River Valley,

Mesopotamia, and Egypt

How did social standing and freedom change for women from hunter gather period to the time of

early Mesopotamia

What was the writing system of Ancient China?

What was believed to be the first monotheistic religion?

How did Egypt politically and economically alter Nubia?

Culturally?

Describe Nubia’s cultural shift when the capital moved from the North to the South.

Give examples of cultural diffusion

How is pastoralism different than the domestication of animals?

How did Mesopotamia’s conquest of other lands differ from that of New Egypt?

How is ancestor worship different than other religious systems?

What do scholars think happened to the Indus River Valley Civilization?

What are the strongest similarities between China, Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley, and

Egypt

How did China interact with outsiders?

Who developed monotheism in Israel, and why?

An ambiguous term often used to denote complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any

group of people sharing a set of cultural traits

The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the 3rd millennium BC;

responsible for cuneiform

The period of the Stone Age associated with ancient Agricultural Revolutions

A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks; associated with religious complexes in Ancient Mesopotamia; function is unknown

A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words/syllables; originated

in Mesopotamia

Amorite ruler of Babylon who conquered many cities in Mesopotamia and is best known for his

code of laws

Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe; the divine

ruler was the earthly keeper of this order

Historian’s term for the period following the Bronze Age

The first major urban civilization in South America, located in the Andes Mountains of Peru

Fine silt that constitutes fertile soil of the Yellow River valley in Northern Chia

Belief in the existence of a single divine entity

The term for the various means by which ancient peoples attempted to determine the future

The term for tracing the family lineage or inheritance through the mother; somewhat used

in Ancient Egypt

The winds that blow over India from the southwest in the summer and north east in the

winter; bring rain and drought respectively

The term for the lifestyle followed by foragers as well as most pastoralists

Egyptian ruler that launched a massive building campaign even as Egypt was in a decline

Egyptian monarch that took the throne upon the death of her husband, preventing her stepson from taking the throne

until she died; ruled not only as queen, but as pharoah

Name of the Shang Dynasty’s writing system

Perhaps the world’s first monotheistic religion

The system of organizing social groups based on family is called:

Civilization to the south of Egypt rich in gold, etc…