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2nd midterms > STS_Ancient Times > Flashcards

STS_Ancient Times Flashcards

1
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Was able to create distinctive and unique sounds

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Didgeridoo

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2
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It was invention of Babylonians but it is still under Mesopotamia

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Medicine

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3
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  • ____ are used for trading anything for a product.
  • 1200 BCE first used as money
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Cowrie Shells (Currency)

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4
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It is remarkably durable due to its unique recipes which uses slaked slime and volcanic ashes

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Concrete

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5
Q

The spearpoint expanded
300,000 years ago in East Africa and Middle East 350,000 years ago in Europe

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Spear

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6
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  • Originated in Mesoamerica
    1900 BCE
  • They believed that cacao beans were a gift to mankind from the feathered serpent god Kulkulkan to the Mayans and Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl
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Chocolate

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7
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Were bag shaped and coarse, made of local clay inclusions of quartz and
feldspar, with plain or simply decorated walls

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Pottery

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8
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The first recorded laws called ___

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Hammurabi’s Code

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9
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This land is in between the Euphrates and Tigris river. Also known as the earliest civilization and many empires or states emerged there

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Ancient Mesopotamia

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Was founded around 625 B.C in the areas of ancient italy known as Etruria and Latium

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Rome / Roman Empire

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11
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  • Founding father of surgery
  • Was an innovator of plastic surgery including rhinoplasty
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Sushruta (Surgery)

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12
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Important subject to babylonians, they invented the zodiac signs and also contributed to the study of eclipses of sun and moon.

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Astronomy

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13
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Is a pipe that uses the pull of gravity to bring water from springs in the mountains to areas

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Aqueducts

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14
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____ traces like charcoal and charred bones

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Fire

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15
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Under Hittite Empire

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Luwian Hieroglyphics

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16
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  • Also called as “botanical medicine” or “phytotheraphy”
  • Used for medical purposes before recorded history
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Herbal Medicine

17
Q

considered luxurious fabric and was often restricted to the upper classes.

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Silk - Fashion

18
Q

The first built aqueducts was called ___ around 312 B.C

A

Aqua Appia

19
Q

Romans built the most sophisticated system of roads

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Roads and Highways

20
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3 Written Language under Ancient Times

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  1. Oracle Bone Script
  2. Luwian Hieroglyphics
  3. Akkadian Cuneiform
21
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Babylonians used calendars with alternating 29 and 30 day months

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Calendar Systems

22
Q

Meant to be used as a weapon enhancer, used in hunting or battle done

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Woomera

23
Q

Rome was ruled by six kings around 625-510 BC) also known as ___

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The Period of Kings

24
Q

Used animals bones or turtle plastrons used in divination

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Oracle Bone Script

25
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  • The ancient “computer” known as quipus
  • System of knotted cords used to store data and transfer information
A

Quipo

26
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The first piece of literature called ___ and were the first to be written by the Mesopotamians

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

27
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  • Used bark and skins
  • To communicate with one another about their surroundings
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Cartography

28
Q

Mesopotamia comes from the Greek word

Meso means ___
Potamos means __

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  • in the middle of
  • in the river
29
Q

Used for making pottery and chariots. Also helped in terms of transportations

A

The Wheel

30
Q
  • The earliest arrowheads occurred in southern Africa around 700,000 years ago
  • Fashioned by Bushmen’s ancestors
A

Bow and Arrow

31
Q

Complaint table to Ea-nasir

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Akkadian Cuneiform

32
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  • Was an Ancient Cultural region in southern Mesopotamia
  • known as Iraq
A

Babylonia

33
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  • Invented during 9th century
  • Firearms and Alchemy
A

Gunpowder

34
Q

One of the most important advances of mesopotamians made by the sumerians

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Writings

35
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The caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, also known as “Bombyx Mori”, are the most commonly used silkworm species.

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Sericulture

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