Chapter 1

Question 1

Types of Societies

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Hunters and Gathering
Horticulture
Pastoral
Agriculture

Question 2

Occupying at least 90 percent of human history

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Hunters and Gathering

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A Belief that all objects whether animate or inanimate such as animals, trees and rocks, possess an impersonal supernatural power

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Animatism

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Simple gardening, supplementary to hunting and gathering

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Horticulture

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The domestication of animals in a semi-nomadic lifestyle

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Pastoral

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Societies whose economies are based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland

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Agriculture

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Coined Money

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Specie

Question 8

By 3000 B.C. the Sumerians had established 12 independent city-states in southern Mesopotamia, in a region called the

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Fertile Crescent

Question 9

Sumerian cities significantly recurring problem, that of the spread of disease

Answer 9

Contaminated Water

Question 10

Never really developed

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a system for waste disposal

Question 11

Devastating floods

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Sophisticated irrigation system

Question 12

Necessitated the creation of a centralized government

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The need to organize workers for construction and maintenance of the canals

Question 13

Compare and Contrast

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Compare- All Egyptian/Sumerian life centered around religion

Compare- Each saw their kings or pharos as gods

Contrast- Egyptians gods were far more benevolent and helpful to humans, Sumerians gods unleashed deadly floods and wars on humans for irrational reason

Question 14

Kings’ supreme responsibility was to

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Ensure Justice

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Main structure in every city was the temple to the gods called a

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Ziggurats

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Constant raiding which could conclude with no virtual extermination of the losing side

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Bronze Age

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3 main reasons of slavery

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Prisoners of war
Voluntarily selling themselves (escape starvation or satisfy debts)
Born a slave

Question 18

In 3500 BC the Sumerians invented a form of writing called

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Cuneiform

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Worship of more than one God

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Polytheistic

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The more important the god

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The more power over humans

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Sumerians built the ziggurats

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to pacify the gods thus avoiding divine punishment

Question 22

Sumerians greatest contribution to Western civilization

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Invention of a written language

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Creates the first recorded empire in Western Civilization

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Sargon the Great

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The Assyrians major impact on Western Civilization

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The development of long-distance trade

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The Babylonians major impact on Western Civilization

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Established written laws known to people

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Its Western and Eastern boarders are protected by the desert was also a course of tremendous wealth

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Large Deposits of Metal ores

Question 27

Around 1600 BC the Ganaantes invented

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Alphabet

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The river produced left, that enriched the sail and diluted harmful mineral salts

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Silt deposit

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A crucial crop, secured Egypt's diplomatic relationships with other countries, and contributed to economic stability

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Wheat

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Around 3000 BC the Egyptians developed their own form of writing called

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Hieroglyphics

Question 31

Egyptians clearly illustrates how the Egyptians valued

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Order and Predictability

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Menes made his royal capital

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Memphis

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Great pyramids were built -they were not built by slave labor but by

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Free Egyptians laborers

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The capital city of the middle kingdom

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Thebes

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The Hyksos brought several items that significantly influenced the Egyptians in the New kingdom period

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-Bronze Making Technology -Humpback Cattle -Composite Bow -Horse Drawn Chariot

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Second Intermediate Period

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Hyksos

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Especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism

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Akhenaten

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Regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom/Egyptian Empire

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Ramesses II (the great)

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Ancient World's Largest Chariot Battle

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Battle of Kadesh

Question 40

The Ptolemy made their royal capital at

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Alexandria