UNIT 1 TEST STUDY GUIDE

ALL of UNIT 1 vocab

o Cultural Diffusion
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Nomad

Neolithic Revolution

City-State

Mandate of Heaven

Cuneiform

Technology

Hammurabi

Ziggurat

Polytheistic

The Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras, and two important facts about each

Impact of Phoenicians

Philosophies in China (Legalism, Confucianism, and Daoism)

The locations of all major civilizations

Religious beliefs of all river valley civilizations and early empires

Rivers and the civilizations they are associated with

Code of Hammurabi

Different writing systems for each civilization and their impacts

Ruling characteristics of the early empires

The impacts of early civilizations

What caused various religions to move or spread

Major achievements of civilizations

The importance of agriculture and rivers

Five features of a civilization