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Question 1
Push Factors
- Competition for resources
- Natural disasters
- Diseases
Pull Factors
- Abundant food and water
- Little to no competition for resources
Question 2
Complete the Sentence: Around 20,000 BCE, people lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer groups. Once they learned how to domesticate plants and animals, the Neolithic Era began.
Question 3
Match the Government Types:
- City-State: a small independent state with its own government, often consisting of a city and the surrounding territory.
- Empire: a large political structure that extends across diverse territories and peoples under a single sovereign authority.
- Theocracy: a system of government in which priests or religious leaders control the government, claiming to rule on behalf of a deity.
Question 4
Internal Factors
- Economic troubles
- Political corruption
- Decline in central authority
External Factors
- Invasions by nomadic tribes
- Competition from rival states
- Natural disasters
Question 5
Fill in the Blanks: A dynasty is a family that rules a nation from generation to generation. Dynasties in China ruled by the Mandate of Heaven, which stated that the leader was chosen by heaven to rule.
Legalism is a philosophy based on qualifications instead of birth. Filial piety is an example of Confucianism respect of children to parents and citizens to rulers.
Question 6
A) What is the subject of this quote?
- Cultural advancements of the Gupta
B) Why did the author write this article?
- To inform people
C) Who is the intended audience?
- Anyone interested in learning about the Gupta
D) Who is the author and what year was the article written?
- Barbara Krasner-Khait, 2002
E) What evidence can you use from the quote to support the argument that this time period can be considered a golden age? Choose all that apply:
- advancements in literature, science, and art
- relative peace and prosperity
Question 7
This picture is an example of a:
- Ziggurat from Mesopotamia.
Question 8
Match the Picture Example to the Correct Term:
- Aqueduct: Structure for transporting water
- Urban Planning: Designing and planning urban spaces
- Irrigation: System for supply of water to crops
- Agriculture: Practice of farming
- Neolithic Village: Early human settlements focused on agriculture
Question 9
Fill in the Blanks: When an empire falls and leaves no leadership, a power vacuum forms. This is when people fight for control of a specific area.
In Europe and China, after Rome and the Han fell, the centralized systems governing the empires and trade networks collapsed.
In Europe, this led to the rise of local, self-reliant, tribal governments and the early medieval feudal system. When the Han Dynasty fell in China, the empire was split into smaller kingdoms and even smaller independent states later.
Trade in China remained under threat from invasions by Mongols and Xiongnu. In Europe, trade was limited to local exchanges between manors.
Religion was a unifying factor in Europe and China at this time. In China, Buddhism became popular, while Christianity united communities in Europe.
Question 10
Match the Person with their Philosophy/Accomplishment:
- Student of Plato; believed logic and deduction using evidence should always be used in research; used a very early form of the scientific method. Aristotle
- Explored the power of human thought and executed for questioning the status quo. Socrates
- King of Macedonia; conquered land from Greece to Pakistan. Student of Aristotle. Alexander the Great
- Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer
- Roman academic who translated works of Greek philosophers for future generations. Executed for criticizing the Roman government. Seneca
- Student of Socrates; believed the human mind should be rational, orderly, and virtuous. Plato
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