Global Studies Early History Overview

Around 3000 BC, civilizations emerged in western Asia, Egypt, China, and...

• the Sahara Desert
• the Amazon Basin
• the Indus Valley

Paleolithic people mostly got food by...

• farming and fishing
• domesticating animals
• hunting and gathering

Mesopotamia would develop between these two rivers.

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Ganges and Indus
• Yangtze and Yellow

This groups trading empire would be the foundation of the Greeks and Romans.

• Phoenicians
• Etruscans
• Babylonians

The Israelites would be significant for developing this type of religion.

• Polytheism
• Agnosticism
• Monotheism

The Aryan people who settled in India are believe to have started this religion.

• Buddhism
• Sikhism
• Hinduism

The Mandate of Heaven was significant in the development of this civilization.

• Egypt
• Japan
• China

This civilization is believed to have developed democracy.

• Ancient Rome
• The Byzantine Empire
• Ancient Greece

The republic was the foundation of this city-state.

• Sparta
• Carthage
• Rome

In the 3rd century, this would become the religion of the Roman Empire.

• Paganism
• Judaism
• Christianity