Social Studies Exam 1st Flashcards
Paleolithic times
Main job was finding food
Never traded found things in their area
Lived in caves and tent like structures
Neolithic times
People developed more skills in jobs
Started to trade when they settled in one place
Made shelters more permanent
Who was chosen to lead in ancient Egypt
The son
Why did the civilizations need a government?
Control rivers
Collect taxes
Build public works projects
What did governments do?
Write laws
Collect taxes
Provide food supply
Maintain defense
Embalming
Putting someone in a coffin
Topography
What the land was like
Fertile
Land great for growing crops
Hieroglyphs
Ancient writing
Papyrus
Fruit
Pharaoh
The leader
Sarcophagus
Place where they burry the body
Famine
A food shortage
Social classes
The jobs in the ancient world
Peasants
The lowest rank social class
Scribes
Writers
Wrote on papyrus
Nomads
People who follow their food
Delta
Where water spits out into a bigger body of water
Vizier
News-taker for the pharaoh
Why did people settle by the Nile river?
The land there was fertile
Jordan river
Not good for farming
Abraham
Judaism
Siddhartha g
Buddhism
Four noble truths
Buddhism
Five pillars
Islam
Old Testament
Christianity
Dharma
Hinduism
Brahman
Hinduism
Karma
Hinduism
Mosque
Islam
Synagogue
Judaism
Covenant
Judaism
Shabbat
Judaism
Bible
Christianity
Vedas
Hinduism
Allah
Islam
Trinity
Christianity
Reincarnation
Islam
Muhammad
Islam
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Caste system
Hinduism
Social classes
8 fold path
Buddhism
Mecca
The god
Before the rise of civilization people were nomadic. What does this mean?
They traveled place to place finding food
How was the behavior of nomadic people regulated?
Through unwritten customs
How did ancient people progress in their social organization?
Nomadic clans to villages to city states to empires
The first civilizations developed near what two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Why did the first civilizations develop near river valleys?
Because annual flooding made the land fertile
How did the first farmers cope with challenges posted by rivers?
They learned to control it and use irrigation systems
What was the name of the area that gave birth to the first civilization?
Mesopotamia
What do all civilizations need to survive and grow?
Resources
What was the first civilization in the ancient world?
Sumer
What are five key elements of a civilization
Centralized government Organized religions Arts Job specialization Social classes Writing
How did Hebrews differ from other ancient people?
We’re monotheism
What was the most important religious duty of ancient people?
To keep their god happy
What were temples called?
Ziggurats
What stood at the top of every ziggurat?
A shrine
What were the first laws written?
To regulate behaviors
How did rulers use public works projects to ensure the city’s supply?
Build irrigation systems, roads, and bridges
How did cities change the way people worked?
People specialized in jobs for the first time.
Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations
Surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food
Ranking people according to their jobs led to this
The development of social classes
