Ancient World 2

Question 1

Clan/Lineage leaders that are usually charismatic

Answer 1

“Big Men”

Question 2

A Pacific Island from 2000 BC that contained Lapita Culture with distinct pottery

Answer 2

Melanesia

Question 3

At the center of Ancestral Pueblo and had dramatic cliffs

Answer 3

Chaco Canyon

Question 4

Area in Arizona “those who have gone before” it was by a water source and rough territory “ball game” and Agave used and the Snaketown is here and the “Great House”

Answer 4

Hohokam

Question 5

In the Four Corners area with evidence of social hierarchy and institutionalized leadership and possible Matrinlineal passing of power

Answer 5

Ancestral Pueblo

Question 6

Lived in fertile swamps and showed major social and political changes and most elaborate prehistoric culture in America

Answer 6

Mississipian Tradition

Question 7

In the Pacific known for the canoes that was used to carry obsidan and food long distances

Answer 7

Lapita culture

Question 8

A Pacific Island along with Melanesia and Polynesia

Answer 8

Micronesia

Question 9

In Polynesia and they were type of a temple

Answer 9

marae

Question 10

large settlement and ceremonial center near gile river in Hohokam

Answer 10

Snaketown

Question 11

distinctive religious ideology appeared in Ohio contains decorated bowls

Answer 11

Hopewell

Question 12

A place in New Zealand that had marae and yam storehouses and war canoes that showed chiefdom power, constant warfare

Answer 12

Maori

Question 13

A Pacific Island with shell and bone artifacts with food surpluses formed from social competition and had little metal

Answer 13

Polynesia

Question 14

best-known great house in Chaco Culture in ancestral puebloans

Answer 14

Pueblo Bonito

Question 15

Ohio Valley first to build extensive earthworks and ceremonial enclosures

Answer 15

Adena

Question 16

appeared in Egypt and Mesopotamia and is a measure of decency and behavior of individual and civilizations

Answer 16

State-organized society

Question 17

saw development of metallurgy and the appearance of a new social class of artisans and specialists who lived in cities

Answer 17

Urban Revolution

Question 18

areas where irrigation was practiced and water was a form of control and power

Answer 18

hydraulic civilizations

Question 19

coastal valleys in Peru to argue that warfare played a key role in state formation

Answer 19

R. Carneiro

Question 20

“urban revolution” great importance in development of all world’s early cities

Answer 20

V.G Childe

Question 21

found that early meso irrigation consisted of cleaning natural river channels

Answer 21

R. Adams

Question 22

distinctive art styles reminding society of a supreme ruler

Answer 22

ideology

Question 23

believed in “hydraulic civilizations” and it was a bureauracy

Answer 23

Karl Wittfogel

Question 24

archaeologist worked on radio-carbon dating

Answer 24

C. Renfrew

Question 25

dirt in layers like "layer cakes"

Answer 25

tell

Question 26

southern Meso, that had inhospitable climate and ecosystem and had irrigation, earliest habitants

Answer 26

Ubaid

Question 27

pictures that represent vowel/consonant combonations

Answer 27

syllabary

Question 28

found the royal cemetry of Ur in 1920s

Answer 28

Leonard Woolley

Question 29

southern Meso, first attempt of an "empire" and had expansion of trade and population growth

Answer 29

Sumeria

Question 30

A ruler that represented the semi mythical heroes

Answer 30

Gilgamesh

Question 31

where the royal cemetery is and had 2000 burials and Queen Shubad, also had the Golden Age

Answer 31

Ur

Question 32

legends of earliest city of all had large temples and assumed great importance

Answer 32

Eridu

Question 33

first "city state", three level settlements hierarchy, large scale ziggurat and writing and metallurgy developed

Answer 33

Uruk

Question 34

small clay tablets with pictures of objects in the culture

Answer 34

Cuneiform

Question 35

ruler of Babylon changed the language and controlled the first true Meso empire and "King of four corners"

Answer 35

Sargon of Agade

Question 36

ruler of Ur, unifies Sumer and Akkad, emphasized art,lit and architecture

Answer 36

Ur-Nammu

Question 37

Babylon's earliest rulers and had famous code of law

Answer 37

Hammurabi

Question 38

diplomatic, exercised enormous political influence in Southeast Asia and fought off Eyptians

Answer 38

Hittites

Question 39

Palace of Knossos, sea faring culture, emphasized trade and had Phaistos Disk

Answer 39

Minoan Civilization

Question 40

royal residence and showed power in Minoan Civilization

Answer 40

Knossos

Question 41

had wealth from warriors skills and trading, had gold and decorated burials

Answer 41

Mycenaen Civilization

Question 42

sea people, wasn't a political unit, traded tyrian purple and collective group of traders

Answer 42

Phoenicians

Question 43

dye like material to show a ruler's power and was wanted by a lot of rulers

Answer 43

Tyrian Purple

Question 44

expansion with absolute monarchs and palaces lived in splendor

Answer 44

Assyrian

Question 45

conquered Meso and Lebanon, founded Nimrud and created the Nimrud Palace

Answer 45

Assurnipal

Question 46

palace in Assyrian empire

Answer 46

Nimrud

Question 47

last king, few literate King and created library of Nineveh and Cuneiform tablets

Answer 47

Assurbinipal

Question 48

Assyrian capital that contained library and fell to Persia

Answer 48

Nineveh

Question 49

ruled over Babylon and Meso, had elaborate gardens and conquered Jerusalem

Answer 49

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 50

took Babylon in 539 BC

Answer 50

Cyrus of Persia