Midterm Review

Question 1

Sagas

Answer 1

a story about a figure

Question 2

Anthropology

Answer 2

the study of man’s physical and cultural development

Question 3

Archaeology

Answer 3

discovering material remains

Question 4

Paleolithic Period

Answer 4

when did man first appear (that’s the question he will ask on the test)

Question 5

Hominin

Answer 5

a species regarded as human, directed ancestral to humans, or very closely humans

Question 6

Race

Answer 6

categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society

Question 7

Geology

Answer 7

rock and earth formation

Question 8

Philology

Answer 8

study of languages and written records

Question 9

Psychology

Answer 9

study of human behavior

Question 10

Sociology

Answer 10

study of conditions and changes in groups; group movements

Question 11

Paleoarchaeology

Answer 11

human fossils

Question 12

Taphonomology

Answer 12

all the bones in the fossil / how bones become fossils

Question 13

Zoology

Answer 13

an animal behavioral person studying animal habits

Question 14

Paleolithic

Answer 14

time period (old stone age)

Question 15

Mesolithic

Answer 15

Time period (middle stone age)

Question 16

Neolithic

Answer 16

Time period (new stone age)

Question 17

Primate

Answer 17

before we were considered humans??

Question 18

Taboo

Answer 18

something frowned upon/forbidden

Question 19

Miocene

Answer 19

Pangaea up until how we know it today (200 million years ago)

Question 20

Pliocene

Answer 20

earth’s crust is formed (tectonics theory)

Question 21

Pluvial

Answer 21

rainy (periods)

Question 22

Glacial

Answer 22

lasted more than 100 thousand years???

Question 23

Inter-glacial

Answer 23

in-between was an equal time of warming and drying (today we live in the fourth inter-glacial period)

Question 24

Pleistocene

Answer 24

Ice ages

Question 25

Nomadic

Answer 25

occupies a few miles of pasture land

Question 26

Patrilineal

Answer 26

father based

Question 27

Matrilineal

Answer 27

mother based

Question 28

Polytheism

Answer 28

believing in more than one god

Question 29

Monotheism

Answer 29

believing in only one god

Question 30

Fertile Crescent

Answer 30

moon shaped travel route from Sumer to Egypt in Mesopotamia

Question 31

Ziggurat

Answer 31

religious temple, open temple (can sell food)

Question 32

Theocracy

Answer 32

government run by priests

Question 33

Pise

Answer 33

the material they used to make the houses back then - animal poop, dirt/clay, and straw

Question 34

Ishtar

Answer 34

mother nature

Question 35

Tigris and Euphrates

Answer 35

they are the lifeline to our first civilization (they are the water source) they are unpredictable

Question 36

Snake bite

Answer 36

most common death

Question 37

Pictograms

Answer 37

images/pictures

Question 38

Ideogram

Answer 38

actions

Question 39

Phonogram

Answer 39

sounds

Question 40

Cuneiform

Answer 40

wedged shape writing (very first writing system on gray tablets [Mesopotamian]

Question 41

Kemet

Answer 41

black fertile soil

Question 42

The Nile

Answer 42

flows south to north through Egypt

Question 43

Pharaoh

Answer 43

they are rulers

Question 44

Mastaba

Answer 44

a rectangular structure over the pit

Question 45

Pyramid

Answer 45

made of blocks and held pharaohs

Question 46

Sacropahus

Answer 46

outermost part of the coffin

Question 47

Sphinx

Answer 47

a winged monster having a woman’s head and a lion’s body

Question 48

Papryus

Answer 48

what Egyptians wrote on

Question 49

Hieroglyphics

Answer 49

writing consisting of hieroglyphs

Question 50

Book of the Dead

Answer 50

ancient Egyptian ritual spells (instructions and incantations)

Question 51

Hedjget

Answer 51

white crown

Question 52

Deshret

Answer 52

red crown