<p> World Tour: Ancient Societies and Empires</p><p>Name: Teacher, Period: Date: Toward Civilization: </p><p>Beginnings of Civilization (p. 4-5)</p><p>Historians define eight basic features common to most early civilizations: </p><p>1. ______</p><p>Why did some of the first cities in Africa and Asia emerge in river valleys?</p><p>2. ______</p><p>What is a bureaucracy, and how did the challenges of farming in river valleys help to create a need for bureaucratic government systems?</p><p>3. ______</p><p>What group was it that probably developed writing in many societies? </p><p>4. ______</p><p>Look the word “specialize” up in the dictionary. What might “job specialization” mean?</p><p>5. ______</p><p>Name some social classes that existed in many ancient societies:</p><p>6. ______</p><p>Who were “artisans?”</p><p>7. ______</p><p>What kinds of public works did well-organized governments help to manage?</p><p>8. ______</p><p>What are “pictographs?” First Civilizations: Africa and Asia</p><p>1. Find and Label: Nile River, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia</p><p>2. Read pp. 6-7, and write down definitions for each of the following terms. Look through your folders to find visuals and facts about each term. </p><p>Vocab Word and Picture Definition Interesting Fact Pharaoh</p><p>Cultural Diffusion</p><p>City-State</p><p>Ziggurat Hierarchy</p><p>Cuneiform</p><p>Scribe</p><p>Hebrews</p><p>Monotheistic</p><p>Prophet</p><p>Ethics</p><p>Diaspora Early Civilizations in India and China</p><p>1. Find and label: Indus River, Ganges River, Himalayan Mountains, Gobi Desert, Pacific Ocean, Huang He River</p><p>2. Read pp. 8-9, and write down what changes each of the following brought to the development of human civilization:</p><p>Mohenjo-Daro</p><p>Aryans</p><p>Vedas</p><p>Shang Dynasty</p><p>Zhou Dynasty 3. Read pp. 8-9, and write down definitions for each of the following terms. Look through your folders to find visuals and facts about each term. </p><p>Vocab Word and Picture Definition Interesting Fact Caste</p><p>Polytheistic</p><p>Brahman</p><p>Mystic</p><p>Dynasty</p><p>Dynastic Cycle</p>