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Question 1

The Paleolithic period began:

Answer 1

2.5 million years ago

Question 2

First use of stone tools was in the ______ period

Answer 2

Paleolithic

Question 3

During the paleolithic period, humans survived by:

Answer 3

hunting and scavenging, called hunter-gatherers

Question 4

The Paleolithic period ended:

Answer 4

10,000 BC

Question 5

The Neolithic period started:

Answer 5

10,000 BC

Question 6

Neolithic period is also called:

Answer 6

New Stone Age

Question 7

Farming food and animals first started in the ______ period

Answer 7

Neolithic

Question 8

A crescent-shaped area of rich farmland that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 8

Fertile Crescent

Question 9

How many species of humans were there durin the Neolithic period?

Answer 9

Only one - homo sapiens. There were more previously, in the Paleolithic period.

Question 10

Which two rivers were in the area of the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 10

The Tigris and the Euphrates.

Question 11

Where was Mesopotamia?

Answer 11

Between the Tigris and the Euphrates

Question 12

Where was Sumeria?

Answer 12

In the Fertile Crescent

Question 13

Egyptian culture developed along which river? why?

Answer 13

the Nile. Seasonal flooding kept the soil very rich and good for farming.

Question 14

The Sumerians were not a single culture, but a collection of separate cultures in states called:

Answer 14

city-states

Question 15

Were Sumerian city-states organized in hierarchies?

Answer 15

Yes. Royalty at the top of each city-state, and other groups beneath them.

Question 16

Who invented the writing system called cuneiform?

Answer 16

The Sumerians

Question 17

Who wrote the world’s first Epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh?

Answer 17

The Sumerians

Question 18

The Sumerians were eventually incorporated into the ________ empire

Answer 18

Mesopotamian

Question 19

Mesopotamians were replaced by the _______, who were replaced by the _______, who were eventually replaced by the __________

Answer 19

Babylonians, Hittites, Persians

Question 20

Where did the world’s first currency economy begin? Criminal law codes? Alphabet?

Answer 20

All during the Mesopotamian and Babylonian and Hittite and Persian empire period

Question 21

When and where was the Code of Hamurabi created?

Answer 21

1790 BC, in Babylon

Question 22

How many laws were in the Code of Hamurabi?

Answer 22

300, with different punishments for each offense

Question 23

Up until 3100 BC, what two cultures had developed along the Nile?

Answer 23

Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt

Question 24

When did Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt unite?

Answer 24

3100 BC

Question 25

Egypt history is divided into three periods called what?

Answer 25

The Old Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, The New Kingdom

Question 26

In The Old Kingdom (Egypt), the political system of _____ developed

Answer 26

pharaohs

Question 27

When were the Great Pyramids built?

Answer 27

During the Old Kingdom, by the pharaohs

Question 28

During the Middle Kingdom (Egypt), what notable things happened?

Answer 28

Massive crop failures, invasions, political issues

Question 29

During the New Kingdom, Egypt ______

Answer 29

rebounded from the hardship of the Middle Kingdom

Question 30

A place where Egyptians built huge tombs to bury their pharaohs in (NOT PYRAMIDS?) and other noble people

Answer 30

The Valley of Kings, very important archaeological site today

Question 31

Egypt’s first female ruler

Answer 31

Hapshepsut

Question 32

Egypt was the dominant power in North Africa until ____, when _____ came into the picture

Answer 32

1100 BC, Persia

Question 33

Who developed hieroglyphics?

Answer 33

Egypt

Question 34

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 34

An Egyptian artifact that helped translate the hieroglypics

Question 35

Which group created monotheism (belief in only one God)?

Answer 35

The Israelites

Question 36

What are the three dominant religions of Western culture?

Answer 36

Judaism, Christianity, Islam