Test 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

halfway between a chimp and a human, first biped primates, appears about 5 million years ago

Answer 1

Australopithecus

Question 2

Sub species created to describe modern man

Answer 2

Homo sapiens sapiens

Question 3

permanent houses start to be built, people stop moving and settle down in a permanent place, start building civilizations, build communal buildings (mills, granaries, ovens) communities become towns, which become cities, people start acting in a corporate way (as a whole), animals start to be domesticated

Answer 3

Neolithic Revolution

Question 4

One of the first real cities in human history, the oldest of them, oldest settlements date back to 10,000 BCE, sits on top of an underground source of water, not near any river, first place to have wall around city, that means that the whole society came together to build something

Answer 4

Jericho

Question 5

one of the first real cities in human history, developed about 7500 BCE, also not near a river, very social culture, had to have some sort of social and political culture, houses all connected one to another, develop communal building

Answer 5

Çatalhöyük

Question 6

area around the Tigris-Euphrates river, people moved into the area about 5,000 years ago, Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers, city/states start to form, the need for a fixed government emerges dut to the existence of fixed and permanent cities, currency

Answer 6

Fertile Crescent

Question 7

Mesopotamia, first culture to provide writing

Answer 7

Sumeria

Question 8

monumental structure, giant buildings built in the regions located in every city state, an artificial mountain, at the top of it there is a series of buildings, these buildings look like temples, also like living quarters, these living quarters were for some of the wealthiest

Answer 8

Ziggurat

Question 9

first writing provided, found in Sumeria, at about 3300 BCE, pictograph (symbols that communicate certain syllables), the vast portion of surviving examples are financial records, records of how much people own, records of political interactions (between city-states and people?), literacy becomes important

Answer 9

Cuneiform

Question 10

one of the written languages that developed in Egypt, it is pictograms, pictures that represent ideas, Egyptians write on everything

Answer 10

Hieroglyphs

Question 11

one of the cities in the Indus Valley, name of the civilization from the Indus Valley

Answer 11

Harappa

Question 12

most important cities in the Indus Valley, emerges at 2500 BCE, one of the most sophisticated, has giant underground basement, had public works system

Answer 12

Mohenjo-Daro

Question 13

Unquestioned force; not possible when more than one person is fighting for power; almost always achieved through military force or military power

Answer 13

Hegemony

Question 14

the feeling that the people who are ruled have the the rule over them is just and moral; maintaining unquestioned power, maintaining what was gained through hegemony; language is an important part of this because if people speak a different language than the ruling class then they may build a resistance

Answer 14

Legitimacy

Question 15

started by Sargon of Akkad

Answer 15

Addadian Empire

Question 16

Started the Akkadian Empire

Answer 16

Sargon of Akkad

Question 17

sone of Sargon of Akkad, takes over after the death of his father, the empire collapses after economic failure

Answer 17

Naram-Sin

Question 18

empire stated in the fertile crescent by hammurabi

Answer 18

Babylonian empire

Question 19

king of babylon, gave a very systemic code of law named after him, drives Elamites out of the Fertile Crescet, expands empire

Answer 19

Hammurabi

Question 20

king of Egypt, first to have a pyramid made for him

Answer 20

Khufu

Question 21

autonomous provinces in middle egypt and each will have its own kind of government, the governors of these will report to the king

Answer 21

nomes

Question 22

the egyptian empire will end because of the immigration of these people, they bring the two-wheel chariot, end the middle kingdom

Answer 22

Hyksos

Question 23

tool of hittite warfare, had archer and driver

Answer 23

Two-wheeled chariot

Question 24

king shalmaneser I start to adopt military strengths of enemies, conquer the entire mideast minus egypt, start building buildings in their style and unify the culture, army has brutal reputation

Answer 24

Assyrian Empire

Question 25

takes persian gult areas, jewish states, and assyrian empire, only his image of a god-king could be worshiped, eunuchs as rulers of states, first to have a standing army

Answer 25

Tiglath-Pileser III

Question 26

king of egypt, forms foreign policy, becomes neopolian of egypt, looks to take over many new regions, rist egyptian king to cross the euphrates and expands control past the cataracts sounth, starts using pharaoh as king and builds temple at karnak

Answer 26

Thutmose III

Question 27

new name of amenhotep, spends most of his regime spreading his religion, builds temple to aten in amarnia, a sun god, changes dominat artistic style, first monotheistic religion

Answer 27

Akhenaten

Question 28

greatest king in egyptian history, focuses in military and uses chariots

Answer 28

Rameses II

Question 29

first battle with record of what happened, ended in a draw and treaty formed with the hittites

Answer 29

Battle of Kadesh

Question 30

becomes king of Persia, conquers both east and west, builds the largest empire to date

Answer 30

Cyrus the Great

Question 31

the akhaimend persian empire contained about 45% of the worlds population at the time, created these as a kind of node, central government only taxes and military

Answer 31

Satrapy

Question 32

chienese literature develops in a very large and quick way, made a work of military theory, talked about moral forces, which is the idea that army’s are composed of oeople and it is important to keep the people in the millitary

Answer 32

Sun-Tzu

Question 33

collection of scripture of judaism

Answer 33

Tanakh

Question 34

someone who communicates with God, the leaders of the Jewish nations

Answer 34

Prophet

Question 35

Jews sent from Jerusalem to other places in Persian, this is the spreading of a culture to different parts of the world away from their origin

Answer 35

Diasporta

Question 36

created by ezekiel because of the destrution of the temples, createss centers of the local groups to witjp that have copies fo the tenakh, kind of mini temples

Answer 36

Synagogue System

Question 37

Hindu scripture, oldest of them

Answer 37

Vedas

Question 38

commentary on older scrpture

Answer 38

Upanishads

Question 39

well moving together or the cycle of life

Answer 39

Samsara

Question 40

the idea that the atman unites with the brahman

Answer 40

Moksha

Question 41

three main gods presenting creation, actual current life, and destrution, or birth, life, and death

Answer 41

Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

Question 42

four of these in traditional hinduism, the top two are the most important, had untouchables on the outside of this

Answer 42

Caste System

Question 43

son of a wealthy man, tried to discover truth, went through ascedisim and then heathenism, but didn’t fint it until he sat under a tree

Answer 43

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 44

the way to recieve nirvana in budhism

Answer 44

Four Noble Truths

Question 45

the path to achieve nirvana

Answer 45

Noble Eightfold Path

Question 46

started taoism, simpler form of hinduism through buddhism, we reach fufillment through inactivity

Answer 46

lao-Tzu

Question 47

scripture in Taoism

Answer 47

Tao te Ching