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Ancient Civilizations and Religions: A Global Perspective, Quizzes of History of East Asia

Definitions and terms related to major ancient civilizations and religions around the world. Topics include agriculture's impact on human life, characteristics of civilizations, influential figures and deities, and the impact of these civilizations on later people. Terms cover mesopotamia, egypt, indus valley, phoenicians, assyrians, zoroaster, buddhism, hinduism, jainism, confucianism, and various wars.

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TERM 1
major crops around the world
DEFINITION 1
near east- wheat, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs east asia- rice,
millet, pigs america- corn, cassava africa- yams
TERM 2
what effects does agriculture have on human
life?
DEFINITION 2
permanent settlement, trade, population growth, more
material goods
TERM 3
what characterizes a civilization?
DEFINITION 3
a hierarchal government ability to keep records (writing)
laws wealth that produces monuments specialization cities
agricultural surplus
TERM 4
what makes mesopotamia, egypt, and the
indus valley a civilization?
DEFINITION 4
mesopotamia- ziggurates (monuments), writing, and cities
(Ur) egypt- pyramids (monuments), hieroglyphics (writing),
and cities (Thebes) indus valley- citadels (monuments),
writing, cities (Harappa, Mohenjo Daro)
TERM 5
epic of gilgamesh
DEFINITION 5
mesopotamian story about a hero's search for immortality
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major crops around the world

near east- wheat, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs east asia- rice, millet, pigs america- corn, cassava africa- yams TERM 2

what effects does agriculture have on human

life?

DEFINITION 2 permanent settlement, trade, population growth, more material goods TERM 3

what characterizes a civilization?

DEFINITION 3 a hierarchal government ability to keep records (writing) laws wealth that produces monuments specialization cities agricultural surplus TERM 4

what makes mesopotamia, egypt, and the

indus valley a civilization?

DEFINITION 4 mesopotamia- ziggurates (monuments), writing, and cities (Ur) egypt- pyramids (monuments), hieroglyphics (writing), and cities (Thebes) indus valley- citadels (monuments), writing, cities (Harappa, Mohenjo Daro) TERM 5

epic of gilgamesh

DEFINITION 5 mesopotamian story about a hero's search for immortality

osiris

god that ruled the afterlife TERM 7

horus

DEFINITION 7 son of osiris, rules the living, in the person of the pharaoh TERM 8

how does mesopotamia and egypt influence

later people?

DEFINITION 8

  1. Serve as a model of civilization: e.g., Mesopotamian influence on Hebrews (Gilgamesh and Noah), and Hittites; Egypts influence on Nubia 2. Develop techniques: e.g. Mesopotamian observation of planets, advances in math; Egypts solar calendar, writing, which influenced later Semitic alphabets. TERM 9

phoenicians

DEFINITION 9 sea-going traders known for their purple dye, and for developing the alphabet TERM 10

assyrians

DEFINITION 10 known for their violence, and the use of iron and siege weapons

dharma

the responsibility of each person to know his duties, to his family, to his caste, and to his society, and then do them. TERM 17

jain

DEFINITION 17 in this eternal universe, souls acquire a coating of karma which must be scrubbed off nby discipline. they dont kill other living souls, they disapprove of sex, lying, and attachment to possessions. there are no gods. TERM 18

confucius

DEFINITION 18 sought to define the role of government in creating moral people. people should be aware of their own responsibilities relative to the varying status of those around them. Good government creates stability. TERM 19

dao

DEFINITION 19 follow the way, in harmony with the contrasting forces of male and female, activity and inactivity. basically: everything is what it is. TERM 20

legalism

DEFINITION 20 won't speculate about eithics, accepts that people are unethical and are to be controlled by a mixture of fear and appeals to their greed. its a government's job to create the laws that will maintain order, and then enforce these laws.

persian

war

athens and sparta together manage to defeat the greatest empire in the world, thus proving the superiority of the free greeks over barbarians. TERM 22

peloponnesian

war

DEFINITION 22 athens and sparta go to war with each other, ending a time of athenian creativity, and sending all of greece into a series of wars, during which mercenaries rank as a greek export right up there with olive oil.