midterm

Question 1

Creation Myth

Answer 1

A story that explains who we are, why we are here, our life purpose

Question 2

Lucy

Answer 2

The first hominid ever found. Approx 3.2 million years old. Found in Ethiopia.

Question 3

Homo Erectus

Answer 3

Characterized by the ability to stand upright, control fire, migrate and hunt.

Question 4

Homo Neanderthal

Answer 4

Was able to communicate, use tools, fire, bury dead. Stockier and powerful to deal with cold climates.

Question 5

Homo Flores

Answer 5

Hobbit hominid that dwarfed due to isolation on an island. 70,000-17,000 years ago.

Question 6

Big Game Hunting

Answer 6

Showed complex language aiblity to create advanced hunting tehcniques.

Question 7

Chauvet Cave

Answer 7

Cave paintings in France dating back 35,000 to 5,000 years ago. Shows animals, hunting, and figures of humans.

Question 8

Paleolithic

Answer 8

Old stone age. Hunter gathers. Tribal society limited to small groups. Used wooden tools, stone tools. Migrated and used caves and skin tents for shelter. Animal skin clothes.

Question 9

Neolithic

Answer 9

New stone age. A sedentary lifestyle with agriculture farming. Sharpened tools. Woven and animal clothes. Shorter life expectancy then hunter-gatherers. A hierarchy emerged.

Question 10

The Big Five

Answer 10

Horse, Sheep, cow, pig, goat,

Question 11

Climate Change

Answer 11

a change in global or regional climate patterns

Question 12

Plant-Animal Domestication

Answer 12

Domestication of animals for food and protection.

Domestication of plants for crops.

Question 13

Catal Huyuk

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7500 BC. Fully settled Neolithic town with plant and animal domestication. Located near volcano where obsidean was available to make tools.

Question 14

Jericho

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First and oldest city in history. Had a central town with walls, storage for grains, and a tower. 9,000 BC. Still hunted and gathered but also grew crops. Egalotarian.

Question 15

Mesopotamia

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Land between Euphraties and Tigris.

Question 16

Sumer

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First major human cities formed in Mesopotamia. All located in Iraq. Spoke common language. Own city-states independent.

Question 17

Cuniform

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writing in ppictographs. Created to maintain order.

Question 18

Mummification

Answer 18

shows love of life. Process takes 70 days.

Question 19

Sumerian Artifacts

Answer 19

EX) Door of Tub Tub. Showed caste system, priests, slaves, warriors, gods.

Question 20

Epic of Gilgamesh

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Tale of king created by god who chased forever life to realize you only live once.

Question 21

Hammurabi

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Created first written legal code. Was harsh and gave more rights to men.

Question 22

Empire

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first type of govt beyond city states

Question 23

Indo-Europeans

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Language Family

Question 24

Pyramids

Answer 24

Largest structures on earth, Built by 80,000 - 100,000 people. Built as tombs for pharoahs.

Question 25

Heiroglypics

Answer 25

Written text in Egypt

Question 26

Kemet

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Egyptian name for Egypt

Question 27

RIver Valley

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Hot spot for human development due to rich soil for agriculture.

Question 28

Hatsheput

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Hatshepsut was the longest reigning female pharaoh in Egypt, ruling for 20 years in the 15th century B.C. She is considered one of Egypt’s most successful pharaohs.

Question 29

Harappan

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Language of Indus Valley people

Question 30

Mohenjo-Daro

Answer 30

3,000-1,700 BCE Largest city of the Indus Valley with 40,000 residents. Fired clay in Kiln.

Question 31

Floods

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Depicted as gods wrath in creation myths

Question 32

Aryans

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Indo-European race. Horseback riders. Vedic Age. invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC

Question 33

Rig Veda

Answer 33

creation myth. Purusa was sacrificed and dismembered to make up different parts of the caste system.

Question 34

Siddhartha

Answer 34

Buddha.

Question 35

Ahimsa

Answer 35

non violence

Question 36

Upanishads

Answer 36

The Upanishads, a part of the Vedas, are ancient Sanskrit texts that contain some of the central philosophical concepts and ideas of Hinduism, some of which are shared with religious traditions like Buddhism and Jainism, wanted to soften the caste system(encourage goodness and kindness)
Brahman = universal soul
Samsara = reincarnation
Karma = accounting for incarnation
Moksha = relieved from the human world when you die
The community wanted to be “good” because they thought they might have been in a lower class in a past life/they did not want to do harm so they would be reincarnated in a lower class

Question 37

Ashoka Maurya

Answer 37

Unified India through the Conquest of Kalinga and converted to Buddism

Question 38

Oracle Bones

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Bones or shells that would be heated and cracked to show predictions of the future.

Question 39

Mandate of Heaven

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Explained why some families came to power and others didnt. Eplained the dynastic cycle. Created by Duke of Zhou.

Question 40

Confucious

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Chinese teacher and philosopher who taught not to stop self reflecting and keep improving.

Question 41

Laozi

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Thought most people have lost touch with daoism. “Go with the flow” mentality.

Question 42

Wuwei

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Non-action, non-doing, non-forcing, action through inaction

Question 43

Legalism

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People are inheriantly bad. Iron fist way of ruling. Han Feizi➡️To end war, you need to empower the military and peasantry=military and agriculture

Question 44

Quin Shihuangdi

Answer 44

Ruled with an iron fist of reward and punishment

Unified China

Question 45

Great Wall

Answer 45

Built to keep horse riding nomads out but also act as a symbol of state of power.