Chapter 1 & 2 Test

Question 0

Slash and burn

Answer 0

People clear fields and the ashes are served to fertilize the soil

Question 1

Nomad

Answer 1

A member of the group that has no permanent home, in search of food and water

Question 2

Domestication

Answer 2

Taming of animals for human use

Question 3

Ziggurat

Answer 3

Pyramid-shaped structure that formed part of a Samaritan temple

Question 4

Neolithic revolution

Answer 4

People’s shifts from food gathering to food producing

Question 5

5 things needed for civilization

Answer 5

Written record
Complex institution
Advance Technology
Advance cities
Specialized worker

Question 6

Hammurabi

Answer 6

Creates a code of laws for the Babylonian Empire

Question 7

Mesopotamia

Answer 7

Land between Rivers (Tigris and euphrates)

Question 8

Fertile Crescent

Answer 8

An ark of rich farmland Between the Persian gulf and the Mediterranean Sea

Question 9

Samarian

Answer 9

One of the first groups of people that formed civilization

Question 10

Sargon of a Akkad

Answer 10

Defeated the city states of Sumer. Took control of both northern and southern Mesopotamia. Created the first empire

Question 11

Silt

Answer 11

Rich new soil

Question 12

Irrigation

Answer 12

Supply water to land or crops to help growth

Question 13

Dynasty

Answer 13

A series of rulers from a family

Question 14

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 14

Looks for The fountain of youth and discovers humans are suppose to die in Mesopotamia

Question 15

City-State

Answer 15

A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit

Question 16

Polytheism

Answer 16

a belief in many gods

Question 17

Empire

Answer 17

Political unit in which a number of people or countries that are controlled by a single ruler

Question 18

Delta

Answer 18

A Region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river

Question 19

theocracy

Answer 19

Government in which the ruler is viewed as a defined figure

Question 20

Mummification

Answer 20

A process of embalming drying corpse to prevent them from Decaying

Question 21

Hieroglyphics

Answer 21

Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sound

Question 22

Papyrus

Answer 22

A tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta used by Egyptian to make A paperlike material for writing on

Question 23

Cuneiform

Answer 23

Invented by Samarian’s a System of writing with wedge-shaped symbols

Question 24

Pharaoh

Answer 24

king of Egypt considered a God as well as a political and militaryleader

Question 25

Pyramids

Answer 25

Burial places for old Kingdom pharaohs

Question 26

Monotheistic

Answer 26

A belief in one God

Question 27

Subcontinent

Answer 27

A large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent

Question 28

Monsoons

Answer 28

A wind that shifts a direction at certain times of each year

Question 29

Harappan

Answer 29

Characterized by Sophisticated city planning located by the Indus River

Question 30

Plumbing

Answer 30

In Indus Valley Engineers invented sophisticated plumbing

Question 31

Losses

Answer 31

China’s slit (yellow)

Question 32

Xia

Answer 32

1st dynasty

Question 33

Shang

Answer 33

2nd dynasty from 1700-1027

Question 34

Zhou (joe)

Answer 34

3rd dynasty 1027-256 LONGEST DYNASTY

Question 35

Mandate of Heaven

Answer 35

The believe that just a ruler had divine approval

Question 36

Dynastic cycle (7) steps

Answer 36

1. Awesome
2. Natural disasters
3. Taxing goes up
4. War/invasion (crappy)
5. Civil war
6. Revolution
7. Replace

Question 37

Feudalism

Answer 37

Originates in China: System where Kings give land to nobles and exchange for service

Question 38

Oracle bones

Answer 38

Form of religion (turtle shell)

Question 39

Delta is in _______ Egypt

Answer 39

Lower

Question 40

Restitution

Answer 40

An act of restoring to an original condition or giving an equivalent or an injury

Question 41

Reconciliation

Answer 41

To restore to friendship