hn wrld history midterms

Question 1

cradle of civilization

Answer 1

mesopotamia

Question 2

mesopotamia

Answer 2

humans first settled and developed farming

Question 3

mark of transition from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age

Answer 3

farming

Question 4

historian

Answer 4

an expert of how past people lived

Question 5

artifacts

Answer 5

anything created/manipulated by humans

Question 6

what led to increase in popluation

Answer 6

food surplus

Question 7

prehistory

Answer 7

period before written word

Question 8

NOT one of the original river valley societies

Answer 8

Sumar

Question 9

animism

Answer 9

belief in spirits that inhabit people, animals and objects

Question 10

known for fearsome military tactices

Answer 10

Assyrians

Question 11

laid foundation for later math and astronomy, such as timekeeping

Answer 11

base 60 numerical system

Question 12

a way of setting up a government by creating several departments and dividing responsiblities

Answer 12

bureacracy

Question 13

diaspora

Answer 13

intentional and forced spreading of a group beyond their homeland

Question 14

which kindgom focused on art literature and public works after decentralizaiton

Answer 14

middle kingdom

Question 15

environmental impact of the Nile flooding

Answer 15

fertile soil

Question 16

cataracts

Answer 16

series of waterfalls that helped protect Egypt from the south

Question 17

evidence of cultural develpment

Answer 17

cave paintings, burial sights

Question 18

nomadic behavior

Answer 18

moving place to place in search for food and resources

Question 19

domestication

Answer 19

adapt plants and animals to better suit human use

Question 20

what does Mesopotmia mean

Answer 20

land between rivers

Question 21

what took place in Paleolithic period

Answer 21

first period where tools were developed and people existed in small nomadic groups

Question 22

what advancements took place in Neolithic revolution (new stone age)

Answer 22

development of tools, people excisted in small nomadic groups, fire

Question 23

anthropology

Answer 23

study of humans, past and present

Question 24

archeology

Answer 24

study of past people through material remains

Question 25

hummurabis’s code, base 60 numerical system, early systems of governement, relate to which kingdom

Answer 25

babylonian empire

Question 26

purpose for writing to first eveolve

Answer 26

record keeping

Question 27

polytheistic, ziggurats, cuneiform

Answer 27

sumerians

Question 28

formidable military, innovations, chariet are all characterisitics of which civiliation

Answer 28

hittites

Question 29

first leader of Neo Babylonian empire

Answer 29

Nebuchadnezar

Question 30

writing system used for business documents

Answer 30

hieratic

Question 31

what allowed social mobility

Answer 31

military service, education

Question 32

expansion of Egyptian empire through military conquests is during which kingdom

Answer 32

new kingdom

Question 33

primary function of hieroglyphics

Answer 33

used for ceremonical purpsoses, often painted or cared into stone

Question 34

womens rights in ancient egypt

Answer 34

legal rights, inherit land and busniess

Question 35

hierarchical structure of ancient egyptian society

Answer 35

pharoah at the top, famers, then peasants at the bottom