From The Origins Of Agriculture To The First River Valley Civilization

Question 1

Civilization

Answer 1

A word used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits

Question 2

Civilization trait 1

Answer 2

Cities as administrative centers

Question 3

Civilization trait 2

Answer 3

A political system based on control of a defined territory rather than kinship connections

Question 4

Civilization trait 3

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Many people involved in specialized,non food producing activities

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Civilization trait 4

Answer 5

Status distinction based largely on accumulation of substantial wealth by groups

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Civilization trait 5

Answer 6

Monumental building

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Civilization trait 6

Answer 7

A system for keeping permanent records

Question 8

Civilization trait 7

Answer 8

Long distance trade

Question 9

Civilization trait 8

Answer 9

Major advances in science and art

Question 10

AP EXAM TIP 1

Answer 10

The interaction of geography an climate with the development of human society is tested on the exam

Question 11

Culture

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Cultural refers to physical objects such as dwellings clothing tools and crafts culture also includes arts,beliefs,knowledge,and technology

Question 12

History

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The study of past events and changes in the development in cultural practices

Question 13

Stone Age

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The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances

Question 14

Paleolithic

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The period o the Stone Age associated with TE evolution of humans

Question 15

Neolithic

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The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient agricultural revolution

Question 16

Foragers

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People who support themselves by hunting wild animals ad gathering wild edible plants and insects

Question 17

The iceman

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The discovery of a well preserved remains of a man at the end of a melting glacier in the European alps in 1991

Question 18

Agricultural revolutions

/Neolithic revolution

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A change in food gathering to food production that occurred between ca.8000 and 2000 b.c.e

Question 19

AP exam tip 2

Answer 19

It is important to understand agricultural,pastoral and foraging societies and their demographic characteristics

Question 20

Megaliths

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Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times

Question 21

Passage-tomb at newgrange Ireland

Answer 21

Around 3200B.C.E a wall of white quartz stones rises above a row of horizontal megaliths on either side of the entrance and leads to a interior chamber for several minutes each year at sunrise on the winter solstice the chamber is illuminated by a shaft of light Which passes through the roof-box above the entrance

Question 22

Neolithic goddess

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Many versions of a well nourished and pregnant female figure were found a çatal hüyük here she is supported by twin leopards whose tails curve over her shoulders to those inhabited the city some 8000 years ago the figure likely represented fertility and power over nature

Question 23

AP EXAM TIP 3

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Be able to compare and contrast two o the early civilization

Question 24

Sumerians

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The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E they were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamia culture such as irrigation technology,cuneiform,and religious conceptions taken over by the Semitic successors

Question 25

Semitic

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Family of related languages a long spoken across parts of Western Asia and Northern Africa in antiquity these languages included Hebrew Aramaic an Phoenician the most widespread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic

Question 26

City-state

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A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory a characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia archaic and classical Greece ,Phoenicia and early Italy

Question 27

Babylon

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The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia it achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite King Hammurabi in the eighteenth century and the neo-Babylon King nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century

Question 28

Hammurabi

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Amorite ruler of Babylon 1792-1750bce he conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia an is best known for a code of laws inscribed on a black stone pillar illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases

Question 29

AP EXAM TIP 4

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Social class are a minor comparison topic in the exam

Question 30

Scribe

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A professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy tranning required to be able to read write using cuneiform S, hieroglyphics or other early cumbersome writing systems

Question 31

Ziggurat

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