Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral People

Question 1

characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing

Answer 1

cuneiform

Question 2

writing system that uses symbols or pictures to denote objects, concepts, or sounds, originally and especially in the writing system of ancient Egypt

Answer 2

hieroglyphics

Question 3

a representation of an eventfrom the past that is put together using evidence from multiple sources

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historical account

Question 4

worshiping or believing in more than one god

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polytheistic

Question 5

a type of society characterized by most of the following,: dense population, agricultural economy, cities, complex social hierarchy, complex occupational specialization, centralized state, monumental building, s writing system, and a dominant belief system

Answer 5

civilization/complex society

Question 6

in a civilization when people adopt different jobs like artisan or priest that don’t involve growing or gathering food

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specialization

Question 7

Jared Diamond’s theory that some regions developed more rapidly and were able to expand and conquer much if the world because the natural resources available to them, along with their climate and geography, gave them an early advantage into agriculture before people in other places

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geographic luck

Question 8

the process by which people change plants and animals over time at a genetic level to increase their productivity or other desired traits

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domestication

Question 9

getting more resources from a given land area by creating new technologies and lifeways

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intensification

Question 10

an order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top

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social hierarchy