unit 2

Question 1

Classic period

Answer 1

is characterized as the stage in which the arts, science, urbanism, architecture, and social organization reached their peak

Question 2

Archaic period

Answer 2

is the earliest phases of a culture; the term is most frequently used by art historians to denote the period of artistic development in Greece

Question 3

Hellenistic Period

Answer 3

covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.

Question 4

geography of Egypt

Answer 4

The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and Southwest Asia. Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea. Egypt borders Libya to the west, the Gaza Strip to the northeast, and Sudan to the south

Question 5

the role of the Pharaoh in Egyptian society

Answer 5

He owned all of the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners. As ‘High Priest of Every Temple’, the pharaoh represented the gods on Earth. He performed rituals and built temples to honour the gods

Question 6

the cultural and technological achievements of the Egyptians

Answer 6

Would come to invent mathematics, geometry, surveying, metallurgy, astronomy, accounting, writing, paper, medicine, the ramp, the lever, the plow, and mills for grinding grain.

Question 7

Delta

Answer 7

a code word representing the letter D, used in radio communication

Question 8

Narmer

Answer 8

Some consider him the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and in turn the first king of a unified Egypt

Question 9

Pharaoh

Answer 9

a ruler in ancient Egypt

Question 10

Theocracy

Answer 10

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

Question 11

Pyramid

Answer 11

The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens

Question 12

Mummification

Answer 12

A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions

Question 13

hieroglyphic

Answer 13

The Egyptians first used hieroglyphs exclusively for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls

Question 14

Papyrus

Answer 14

Papyrus

Question 15

Hammurabi

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was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe reigning from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC

Question 16

Hammurabi’s code

Answer 16

Hammurabi codes is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated to about 1754 BC

Question 17

significance the code of Hammurabi

Answer 17

The code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia.

Question 18

mesopotamia

Answer 18

is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders

Question 19

sumer

Answer 19

is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages, and one of the first civilizations in the world, along with Ancient Egypt, Norte Chico, Ancient China and the Indus Valley

Question 20

City-State

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is a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. Cultural diffusion is the spread of the beliefs and social activities of one culture to different ethnicities, religions, nationalities, etc. Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god

Question 21

polytheism

Answer 21

relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god.

Question 22

impacts of agricultural revolution

Answer 22

Advances in agriculture and the domestication of animals in such places as Mesopotamia allowed people to form semi-sedentary and sedentary settlements, which led to the development of complex societies and civilizations, In Mesopotamia, writing emerged in response to these new complexities.

Question 23

Hunter-gatherer

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is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging and they had to hunt the food to get food or find it in nature

Question 24

Neolithic revolution

Answer 24

human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly larger population

Question 25

Slash and- burn farming

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is a widely used method of growing food in which wild or forested land is clear cut and any remaining vegetation burned

Question 26

Domestication

Answer 26

Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses

Question 27

Nomad

Answer 27

They found food that was in nature