FINAL REVIEW

Why WAS EGYPT CALLED THE GIFT OF THE NILE?

• IRRIGATION FROM THE NILE PROVIDED FOR FARMING IN A DESERT REGION

• PROTECTION FROM THE NILE KEPT INVADERS FROM ENTERING FROM THE NORTH

• FISH AND WILDLIFE FROM THE NILE WERE TRADED WITH NEIGHBORING CIVILIZATIONS

• EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THE GODS HAD PLACED THE NILE IN EGYPT AS A SIGN OF SUPREMACY

HAMMURABI'S CODE BECAME A MODEL FOR LATER LAW CODES BECAUSE IT INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF

• GOVERNMENTS HAVING A JUDICIAL BRANCH

• EQUAL PUNISHMENTS FOR ALL SOCIAL CLASSES

• CONSISTENCY AND PREDICTABILITY IN THE LAW

• LAWS NEEDING TO BE INTERPREPTED BY JUDGES

SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA'S QUEST FOR PERSONAL ENLIGHTENMENT BEGAN WITH

• OBSERVING SUFFERING IN THE WORLD

• DEVELOPING A GUIDE TO MEDITATION

• REJECTING THE IDEA OF MONOTHEISM

• TAKING POLITICAL POWER FROM THE KING

WHICH CIVILIZATION DEVELOPED AN EARLY WRITING SYSTEM THAT USED CUNEIFORM SCRIPT ON WET CLAY TABLETS

• EGYPTIAN

• SUMERIAN

• INDUS RIVER VALLEY

• CHINESE ZHOU DYNASTY

MESOPOTAMIA IS LAND BETWEEN WHAT TWO RIVERS

• TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES

• NILE AND GRANDE

• MISSISSIPPI AND RED

• RHINE AND CROCKET

THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO RULE

• MANDATE TO HEAVEN

• FEUDALISM

• CULTURAL DIFFUSION

• THE GREAT SCHISM

WHAT IS CULTURAL DIFFUSION?

• SPREADING OR MIXING OF CULTURE

• BLACK DEATH

• MONOTHEISM

• RELIGION

DEFINE NOMAD

• A person who stays in one place for their entire life
• A large body of water surrounded by land
• A type of bird that cannot fly
• A person who moves from place to place, often in search of food or grazing land for livestock

WHAT ROMAN LEADER GRANTED RELIGOUS TOLERATION TO CHRISTIANS

• Emperor Constantine the Great
• Julius Caesar
• Nero
• Alexander the Great

WHO WAS ASSASINATED BY THEIR OWN SENATE?

• Alexander the Great
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Abraham Lincoln
• Julius Caesar