Test

Question 1

Epic of Gilgamesh ID and SIG

Answer 1

• took place 2331 BCE
• in Akkad
• highlights the flood from 6000 years ago
• first epic or great literature
• parallels stories like Noah’s ark and
• Represents the 10 foot rise in water within 1 century

Question 2

Royal tombs of ur ID and SIG

Answer 2

• discovered by Cl Woolley in 1922- 1934 In surmeria
• mass grave of 68 people who knowingly took poison to be with their leader
• one of the first moments where the world saw the surmerian civilizations culture
• represents mass loyalty and confidence

Question 3

Code of huammurabi ID and SIg

Answer 3

• 282 laws inscribed on a stone for the public of Babylon in 1755-1755 BCE
• put on basalt stele
• depicts was from the god shamash
• origin concept for eye for and eye
• set first divinity and societal laws
• stood the test of time

Question 4

Ziggurats

Answer 4

• a stack of 1-7 platforms decreasing in size from bottom to top
• place of worship for gods
• represents places for ceremonies and worship of gods
• important for honour
• towel of babel

Question 5

Sargon the great

Answer 5

• ## leader of Akkadian’s and established capital (Akkad)
• unified lower Mesopotamia in 2331 after Sumerian conquering
• spread culture in Mesopotamia

Question 6

Chronological dating

Answer 6

• radio carbon dating
• absolute dating
• provides estimate of years (lower or higher)
• the further the time in past the bigger margin for error
• examines the chemical composition

Question 7

Relative dating

Answer 7

• older/younger dating
• provides sequence and whether something is old/young/same age
• uses stratigraphy

Question 8

Stratigraphy

Answer 8

• sequences of geological layers formed from water or wind deposits
• relative

Question 9

Law of association

Answer 9

• says two things are the same age because they were found in same layer

Question 10

Law of superposition

Answer 10

Says something is younger than something else if it is higher in layering

Question 11

Radio carbon dating

Answer 11

RadioCarbon studies the radioactive isotopes like c14 and ur238 in organic remains to find the date from decaying material
Chronometric

Question 12

Detrochronology

Answer 12

Tree ring patterns, chronometric

Question 13

Molecular clocks

Answer 13

Slight genetic markers changing at a known rate, Chronometric

Question 14

Radio carbon dating

Answer 14

Created by Willard Libby at u of Chicago
Dates artifacts from geological events 50 000 years ago
Chronometric

Question 15

Aust. Afar.

Answer 15

Extinct species from 3.9-2.9 million years ago in Pliocene Africa
Found by Johanson

Question 16

Aust. Bois.

Answer 16

Species from Pleistocene east Africa from 2.5-1.9 million years ago
Found by Mary leaky in 1959

Question 17

Homo erectus

Answer 17

First upright humans
Extinct human species from 2 million years ago

Question 18

Homo Neanderthal

Answer 18

Extinct human species from 40 000 years ago
Found in Germany

Question 19

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Answer 19

Current humans
Sub species of extinct Homo sapiens
300 000 years ago

Question 20

Libby

Answer 20

Chemist who created radio carbon dating in 1949

Question 21

Leakey

Answer 21

Found early hominids including Australopithecus Bosei

Question 22

Johanson

Answer 22

Discovered hominid Lucy also known as Australopithecus afarensis

Question 23

Wooley

Answer 23

Excavated the royal tombs of ur between 1922-1934