History Quiz 2 Flashcards
Megaliths
Giant Stone Structures
Astronomy
Study of Stars
Aboriginal people
From the origin
Didgeridoo
An instrument
Corrobree
Gathering of Aboriginal people for dance and culture
Dreamtime
Magical Time and Dimension
Songlines
Maps in the form of a song
Pictographs
Rock Paintings
Malta
Island Country with Megaliths
Stonehenge
Stone structure in England
Skarabrae
In Scotland, World’s first village
Uluru
Central Rock in Australia
How long has Australia supposedly been inhabited?
50,000 years
Give the Middle East 3 different Names
Cradle of Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Sumer
The first large-scale civilization
Where was Sumer?
In modern-day Iraq
Two rivers that irrigated Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Fertile Crescent
Birthplace of large civilizations
Mesopotamia
Land b/w 2 rivers
Ur
First city of Sumer
Social Stratification
Divided into ranks
Ziggurats
Large pyramid temples – polytheistic
Cuneiform
The writing system/alphabet invented by the Sumerians
World’s first literature
How many (traditionally) walled cities of Sumer are there?
12
City-State
City that is its own country
Levels of Unity of Human Society
Individuals
Families
Tribes
City-states
Alliances of City-States
Empires
Name 3 Modern-Day City-States
Vatican City
Monaco
Singapore
Who was the first conquerer
Sargon of Akkad
Confederation
An alliance with no central government
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The first known written Literature (The first novel)
Who was Gilgamesh
The earliest historically named individual in history
Joseph Campbell
Believed all stories in the world are based on the same pattern (The Hero’s Journey)
Monomyth
The Hero’s Journey
Archetype
Big Stamp, the influential hero who represents the culture
What was Sumer in the levels of unity of human society?
An alliance of city-states
