Chapters 1 - 3

Review

Rise of early civilizations

} Eras
} }

referred to by types of tools

Stone Age Bronze Age

} Many

cultures saw the transition from small communities to large settlements } Required a steady food/water supply } People worked different jobs } Creation of organized governments } Foundation of world religions

Differences among the early cultures

} Various } No
}

physical environments

one type of government

i.e. Chinas Mandate of Heaven

} Different
} }

religious views

Monotheism (one god) Polytheism (many gods)

Key to development Agr. Rev.

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} } }

Started in the Fertile Crescent Shift from eating wild grains to growing crops Domesticated animals Population increase Increase in disease

Ancient Mesopotamia
} Birthplace

of

civilization } Sumerians and Babylonians

}

Divine right kings

} Epic

of Gilgamesh } Ziggurats } Hammurabis Code } Hebrews and monotheism

Ziggurat of UR

Ancient Egypt
on the Nile } Ruled by the pharaoh
}

} Centered

Both a king and a god

} Emphasis
} } }

on preparing for the afterlife

Pyramids Mummification Book of the Dead

The Pyramids of Giza

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Book of the Dead

Ancient India
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Indus Valley civilization Aryan invasion Caste system

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Samsara Dharma Karma Hinduism Buddhism Jainism

Major religions
} } }

Ancient China
} Centered

on Yellow

Riv. } dynastic cycle of history

}

Mandate of heaven

} Silk

cultivation } Ancestor worship } Maintain balance w/in nature

}

Yin Yang

Early Americans
came over ice bridge at Bering Straits } Range of lifestyles and languages } Earliest cultures in modern day Peru
} Probably

Comparing Peruvian and Sumerian pyramids