Midterm Review: Vocabulary

2. A belief in the unity of everything, that god and creation are one
8. Scientist who locates, uncovers and dates artifacts and fossils
10. A trade good such as wheat, rice, fish or lumber that has an immediate use
11. Aryan king of ancient northern India
12. Type of trading ship built by the Phoenicians
15. Used by the Shang Dynasty of China to communicate with nature spirits
18. Term used to describe the period before written records were kept
19. Purple dye traded by the Phoenicians
20. Creator of the universe according to Chinese mythology

1. Culture capable of supporting large permanent settlements with complex social, economic, & political systems
3. “Half Sphere” - in reference to half of the globe
4. Person who must travel around in search of food and water
5. Anything that was made by human hands
6. Seasonal storms that form over the Indian Ocean
7. Trading one good or service directly for another
9. Most important crop that enables a civilization to form
13. Small map within a larger map that helps provide more information
14. Yellowish sediment that deposits in the eastern rivers of China
16. Bills and coins
17. Form of ritual suicide practiced by widowed women in ancient India
19. Belief in only one god