Period 1- Up To 600 B.C.E

Question 1

Agricultural Revolution

Answer 1

Groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles

Question 2

Oxen

Answer 2

Used to pull plows on expanding farmland. This allowed farmers to increase the size of their fields

Question 3

Sumerians

Answer 3

Successful agriculture, river management, developed cuneiform

Question 4

Cuneiform

Answer 4

Scribes used this to set down laws, treaties, and social and religious customs

Question 5

Other Sumerian developments

Answer 5

Wheel- enhanced trade because reduced time to transport goods and people
Used geometry to survey the land and develop architectural enhancement

Question 6

Sumerian religion

Answer 6

Polytheistic

Sumerian built ziggurats to worship their good

Question 7

The Code of Hammurabi

Answer 7

King of Babylon developed code of laws

Significant step toward out modern legal code

Question 8

The Assyrians

Answer 8

Learned how to used iron, the technology the Hittites used to defeat them
This allowed them to establish a capital at Nineveh

Question 9

King Menes

Answer 9

United entire Egyptian civilization which developed along Nile river

Question 10

Queen Hatshepsut

Answer 10

First female ruler

She is credited for expanding Egyptian trade expeditions

Question 11

The Aryans

Answer 11

Nomadic tribes

Used horse and advanced weaponry to defeat populations in the Indus Valley

Question 12

Aryan religion

Answer 12

Established basis Hinduism in India by recording their beliefs in the Veda and Upanishads

Question 13

Zhou dynasty

Answer 13

Believed in the Mandate of Heaven which meant only the heaven could grant the Zhou power

Question 14

Olmec

Answer 14

Modern day Mexico
Mastered irrigation techniques
Developed a system of writing and calendar

Question 15

Chavin

Answer 15

In the Andes
Developed ways to use metals in tools and weapons
Used llamas as beasts of burden