Unit 1

Question 1

What was the earliest Prehistoric Age?

Answer 1

Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)

Question 2

What Age was marked with advanced tool makings and the beginnings of agriculture?

Answer 2

Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

Question 3

What was the revolution known as the shift from hunter-gatherers towards more permanent settlements centered on agriculture?

Answer 3

Neolithic Revolution

Question 4

What was a Nomad?

Answer 4

A member of a group that has no permanent home

Question 5

What was Slash-and-Burn farming?

Answer 5

Type of farming where people burned trees and grasses to clear the field and used the fertile soil for crops.

Question 6

What was an Institution?

Answer 6

A long-lasting pattern of organization in a community

Question 7

What was cuneiform?

Answer 7

A system of writing used by Sumerians.

Question 8

How was a dynasty run?

Answer 8

The power is passed on from generation.

Question 9

How is a ruler viewed in a theocracy?

Answer 9

A ruler is viewed as a divine leader.

Question 10

Who used hieroglyphics?

Answer 10

Egyptians had used hieroglyphics on papyrus.

Question 11

What happened during the Bronze Age?

Answer 11

This was a period around 3000 B.C. in which some areas began using bronze.

Question 12

Define Specialization.

Answer 12

The development of skills in a particular kind of work, such as trading or record keeping.

Question 13

Define Artifact.

Answer 13

A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon, or piece of jewelry.

Question 14

What is special about a hominid?

Answer 14

A hominid was a special member of a biological group including humans that can walk upright.

Question 15

Define Technology.

Answer 15

The way in which people apply knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs.

Question 16

What was the job of an artisan?

Answer 16

Artisan’s jobs were weavers or potters that made goods by hand.

Question 17

What was the job of a scribe?

Answer 17

Their job was to be professional record keepers.

Question 18

What was barter?

Answer 18

It was a form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money.

Question 19

What was a ziggurat used for?

Answer 19

It was used as a Sumerian temple.

Question 20

Define Homosapiens

Answer 20

The biological species to which modern humans belong to.

Question 21

Define Fertile Crescent

Answer 21

An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 22

Define City-state

Answer 22

A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.

Question 23

Define Dynasty

Answer 23

A series of rulers from a single family

Question 24

What were the rivers of Mesopotamia?

Answer 24

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 25

Define Cultural Diffusion

Answer 25

The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.

Question 26

Define Polytheism

Answer 26

A belief in many gods.

Question 27

Define Empire

Answer 27

A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.

Question 28

Who was Hammurabi?

Answer 28

The Babylonian emperor who created the first written set of laws.

Question 29

What was Babylon?

Answer 29

A city in Mesopotamia that became an important capital

Question 30

Define Delta

Answer 30

A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.

Question 31

Who is Narmer (Menes)

Answer 31

Pharaoh has given credit for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt

Question 32

Define Pharoah

Answer 32

A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.

Question 33

What is a pyramid?

Answer 33

A massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for Old Kingdom pharaohs.

Question 34

Define Mummification

Answer 34

A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying.

Question 35

Define Reed

Answer 35

A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material for writing on.

Question 36

Define Nile River

Answer 36

River whose regular flood cycles helped build Egyptian civilization