Paleolithic, Neolithic, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ancient Near East

Question 1

Chauvet

Answer 1

28,000 to 30,000 BC

Ardéche river discovered in 1994

Very detailed cave paintings with shading not just outlines

Question 2

La Roque St. Christophe

Answer 2

55,000 BC to 1588 AD

Had multiple overhangs for permanent settling area for much larger populations

first place where people permanently settled

Question 3

Catalhöyük

Answer 3

7502 to 5700 BC

Antolia Turkey

Everyone had the same power
homes were all the same

Buried their dead, flesh hacked off, skull was removed

Question 4

Neolithic Revolution

Answer 4

10,000 BC

The shift from hunting and gathering to agricultural les to permanent settlements and the establishment of social classes

Advanced social structure, religion,trade, better tools, government systems, entertainment, and walls

Question 5

Sargon the Great

Answer 5

2334 to 2279 BC

Earliest of the worlds great empire builders

Conquered all of southern Mesopotamia

Question 6

Hammurabi

Answer 6

1792 to 1750 BC

Ruled and united all of Mesopotamia

Created The laws collection of Hammurabi

Question 7

Ziggurat

Answer 7

2100 to 2200 BC

Used as a temple of worship

Used for making star charts

Question 8

Cuneiform

Answer 8

1000 BC

Early form of writing with symbols like letters

Used for musical tuning, lists, medical text, recipes, math

Question 9

Nebuchadnezzar

Answer 9

604 to 562 BC

Credited with construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Question 10

Ma’at

Answer 10

Ancient Egyptian

Goddess that represents law, order, and truth

Question 11

Nilometer

Answer 11

Used to measure the Nile river when it would flood

Used by the ancient Egyptians

Question 12

Akhenaton

Answer 12

Around 1353 to 1336 BC

One of the most important religious innovator

Question 13

Nefertiti

Answer 13

1370 to 1330 BC

Akhenaton wife

During her reign was a time of tremendous cultural upheaval

Question 14

Aten

Answer 14

1349 to 1333 BC

God of the sun

Question 15

Akhetaten

Answer 15

1336 to 1334 BC

City that was built by Akhenaten for the religious worship of Aten

Question 16

Tutankhamun or king tut

Answer 16

1333 to 1324 BC

Became ruler around 8 or 9 years old

Youngest ruler of Egypt

Question 17

Hieroglyphics

Answer 17

3300 or 3200 BC

Symbols and pictures, form of writing

Question 18

Papyrus

Answer 18

3000 BC

Earliest form of paper invented by Egyptians

Question 19

Rosetta Stone

Answer 19

196 BC

Discovered in 1799

Hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek

Greek was used to translate hieroglyphs and demotic

Question 20

Jean- François Champollion

Answer 20

1790 to 1832

French

Discovered that hieroglyphics is an alphabet and decoded the hieroglyphics