Quiz 1 Vocab Words

Question 1

Paleolithic

Answer 1

prehistory and Stone Age. Archaeology is really our only source of evidence for the confirmation of this age existing.
Religion, social hierarchy, and hunter-gathering… stone tools.

Question 2

Neolithic Revolution

Answer 2

Agriculture and the domestication of animals! 10,000-4,000 BC

Question 3

hunter-gatherer

Answer 3

Way of life/survival before agriculture and social hierarchy developed. You eat what you can get.

Question 4

Polytheism

Answer 4

Belief in multiple gods

Question 5

Mesopotamia

Answer 5

Th beginning of Western Civilization—advances in religion, math, writing, and astrology

Question 6

Sources

Answer 6

There are primary and secondary. Primary is from when the event actually occurred, or first-account witnesses, and secondary sources are more like scholarly and peer-review articles or books.

Question 7

Maps

Question 8

Prehistory

Answer 8

Before there was writing/written records.

Question 9

Early Near East

Question 10

Cuneiform

Answer 10

First written language!

Question 11

Hieroglyphs

Answer 11

Second written language (featuring Egyptians!)

Question 12

Hammurabi

Answer 12

Wrote the first set of rules/laws down.

Question 13

Ziggurat

Question 14

Pharaoh

Answer 14

Word used to refer to the Egyptian kings in the New Kingdom

Question 15

Monotheism

Answer 15

Belief in one god

Question 16

Assyrians

Answer 16

Came after Mesopotamians

Question 17

Persian Empire

Question 18

Hebrews

Answer 18

Always getting conquered on. Politically insignificant but culturally and religiously VERY significant! Ethical monotheism

Question 19

Egypt

Answer 19

VERY prosperous in the ancient world because of the Nile River.

Question 20

Hatshepsut

Answer 20

Badass.The End. JK, first and only female pharaoh.

Question 21

Rosetta Stone

Answer 21

The reason why we can understand hieroglyphics today