Vocab Test #1

Question 0

Ziggurats

Answer 0

Massive structures built in ancient Mesopotamia. Terraced step pyramid of successfully receding stories or levels

Question 1

Subsistance

Answer 1

The action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level

Question 2

Horticulture

Answer 2

The art/practice of garden cultivation or management

Question 3

Cuneiform

Answer 3

Wedge-shaped characters

Question 4

Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture; basing things off their own culture

Question 5

Agriculture

Answer 5

Practice of farming

Question 6

Domestication

Answer 6

Population of living organisms is changed at the genetic level, through generations of selective breeding

Question 7

Culture

Answer 7

The arts or other manifestation of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively

Question 8

Hunter-Gathers

Answer 8

Lifestyle allowed people to travel lightly, taking few things on trips.

Question 9

Nomadic

Answer 9

Roaming about from place to place frequently or without fixed pattern of movement

Question 10

Siege

Answer 10

A military where the enemy that surrounds a town/village. Cutting off supplies to make them surrender.

Question 11

Phalanx

Answer 11

A group of police or troop that stands or moves in a close formation

Question 12

Logistics

Answer 12

The plans of an operation involving organizations,people, or supplies.

Question 13

Patriarchy

Answer 13

The head of the house/home is the oldest male member

Question 14

Levitate marriage

Answer 14

If a brother dies, his brother would have to marry his wife. They were obligated too.

Question 15

Dowry

Answer 15

A piece of land money the bride gives to her husband on their wedding day.