WHAP Ch. 1

Which river-valley civilization was most completely destroyed by invasion?

Indus-valley

As with most influential of the smaller ME regional cultures, the Jewish culture was characterized most by...

Monotheism

Egyptian civilization differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing

More centralized and durable empires

A smaller regional culture called the __ devised an alphabet with twenty-two letters; this in turn was the ancestor of the Greek and Latin alphabets.

Phoenicians

The characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was what?

Regional city-states

By about about 1500 B.C.E, a line of kings called the __ ruled over the Huang River valley civilization.

Shang

A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was what?

The ability to spread geographic units and climate zones.

The human species was characterized in the Paleolithic Age by what four things?

The development of simple stone and wooden tools, slow population growth, the ability to communicate with speech, the ability to express themselves freely.

The Paleolithic age refers to what?

The period in which simple stone tools were developed.

Jewish monotheism emphasized what?

The power and abstraction of God

Jewish monotheism came about during what civilization?

Tigris-Euphrates

The belief in a single deity is known as __

monotheism

The era in which sedentary agriculture began is called __

the Neolithic Revolution

What criteria are required to define an area as a civilization?

A writing system, social classes, and development of cities.

The civilization with the longest-lasting stability was in __

Egypt

What does not define a civilization?

Equality between the social classes.

The development of writing helps...

Explain why governments could become more formal and bureaucratic.

It was under the Babylonian rule that King __ introduced the most famous early code of law.

Hammurabi

The largest city to develop along the Indus River was __

Harappa

Early civilization began in China along the __

Huanghe river

Most civilizations developed writing, starting with the emergence of __ in the ME around 3500 B.C.E

cuneiform