Ch 1 & 2 {first empires/civilizations}

Question 0

Nomads

Answer 0

Highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging for new sources of food

Question 1

5 things needed for civilization:

Answer 1

1. Advanced cities 2. Specialized workers 3. Complex institutions 4. Record keeping 5. Advanced technology

Question 2

Slash and burn

Answer 2

Cut trees/ grasses and burn them to clear a field, the ashes would fertilize they would use, leave, come back and the grasses would be grown and it would start all over

Question 3

Domestication

Answer 3

Taming animals

Question 4

Ziggurat

Answer 4

Pyramid shaped monument to worship looming gods, means “mountain of god”

Question 5

Hammurabi

Answer 5

Reached Babylonian empire peak, made code of Hammurabi

Question 6

Mesopotamia

Answer 6

in Greek “land between the rivers” one of the first civilizations, inhabited by the sumerians

Question 7

Fertile Crescent

Answer 7

Curved shaped region in Southeast Asia with rich land

Question 8

Sumerians

Answer 8

First people to settle in Mesopotamia

Question 9

Sargon of Akkad

Answer 9

Defeated city states of Sumer and created first empire

Question 10

Silt

Answer 10

Thick bed of mud

Question 11

Irrigation

Answer 11

Carried river water to fields and allowed more crops

Question 12

Dynasty

Answer 12

Series of rules of a single family

Question 13

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 13

Some of the richest accounts of Mesopotamian myths and legends, 1st written records, look for the fountain of youth, never found but realize humans are meant to die,

Question 14

City-state

Answer 14

City and surrounding land it controlled (most like a country)

Question 15

Polytheism

Answer 15

Belief in many gods

Question 16

Empire

Answer 16

Brings together several peoples, independent states,or nations under one rule

Question 17

Nile

Answer 17

4,100 mile (longest in world) river flowing through Egypt

Question 18

Delta

Answer 18

100 mi before end or Nile, lower Egypt, broad marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at mouth of river

Question 19

King menes & his crown

Answer 19

(Narmer) united upper and lower Egypt and wore a white and red crown

Question 20

Theocracy

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Type of government in which ruler is based on religious authority

Question 21

Mummification

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Preserved in death

Question 22

Hieroglyphics

Answer 22

A picture is an idea for Egyptians “sacred carvings”

Question 23

Papyrus

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Reeds, crosswise, dampened, pressed in a paper like sheet

Question 24

Neolithic revolution

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Agriculture revolution

Question 25

Cuneiform

Answer 25

Sumerian “Wedge shaped” symbols

Question 26

Pharaoh

Answer 26

Egyptian god-kings

Question 27

Pyramids

Answer 27

Tombs for royalty and pharaohs

Question 28

Old kingdom

Answer 28

Early pharaohs 2180 BC.

Question 29

Middle Kingdom

Answer 29

1040-1680 BC pharaohs restored law and order and improved technology

Question 30

New kingdom

Answer 30

A group from Israel came called Hysksos which means “rulers of foreign lands” and took over 1630-1523 BC

Question 31

Monotheistic

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Belief in one God

Question 32

Subcontinent

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A large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent (ex: Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan. Bangladesh)

Question 33

Harrapan civilizations

Answer 33

Named for Indus Valley because of archaeological discoveries at site and city planning, first Egyptian society, plumping: complex institutions

Question 34

Plumbing

Answer 34

Indus Valley had sophisticated plumbing system and drainage

Question 35

Rivers in Indus Valley

Answer 35

Ganges and Indus

Question 36

Two rivers flow from mountainous west to Pacific Ocean in china

Answer 36

Yangtze (Chang Jiang) 
Yellow river (huang he)

Question 37

Loess

Answer 37

Fertile soil, looks like yellow silt from haung he

Question 38

XIA

Answer 38

First Chinese dynasty

Question 39

Shang

Answer 39

Took of over xia, second dynasty, first written records 1000 - 1027 BC

Question 40

Zhou dynasty

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(Joh) overthrew Shang 1027 BC used mandate of heaven

Question 41

Mandate of heaven

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Claim divine approval

Question 42

Dynastic cycle

Answer 42

Pattern of rise, decline and replacement of dynasties

Question 43

Feudalism

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Political system in which lords are granted the use of land legally owned by the king

Question 44

Oracle bones

Answer 44

Animal bones and tortoise shells that Chinese priests had scratched questions for the gods

Question 45

Upper and lower Egypt

Answer 45

Remember there opposite the beginning leading into the med sea is lower and the lower is upper Egypt

Question 46

Hammurabi’s way to deal with committing a crime: restitution vs reconciliation:

Answer 46

Restitution: act of restoring to an original condition by giving an equivalent ex: eye for an eye

Reconciliation: restore to harmony & friendship, fix, forgive

Question 47

Monsoon

Answer 47

A wind that shifts in direction at certain times each year, dominated India’s climate, Included seasonal rains

Question 48

Majenjo-Daro

Answer 48

Early Indus River civilization( also called Harrapan civilizations) that had innovative plumbing system close to the one created in the 1900s

Question 49

Cast iron

Answer 49

During the Zhou dynasty, one of their innovations was blast furnaces that produced cast iron to create weapons & farm tools

Question 50

Place that has indoor plumping?

Answer 50

Mahejo daro. It’s a building (Spelling is incorrect)