Western Civ 1: Exam 1

Question 1

Paleolithic Era

Answer 1

Human Existence to 10,000 BCE
Hunters and gathers who were always in eastern Africa on the move and there a development of language found and learned how to make fire.

Question 2

“Cradle of Humanity”

Answer 2

A place located in Africa

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

A building of the way a people have lived and adapted throughout the years.

Question 4

What does good History do?

Answer 4

Engages, Entertains, Explains

Question 5

Neolithic Revolution/Age

Answer 5

10,000 BC, New advances in stone tool technology, the domestication of animals and crops brought a sense of stability

Question 6

Fertile Crescent

Answer 6

Part of the Middle East that was fertile agriculturally and helped fed tons of people.

Question 7

Mesopotamia

Answer 7

Located Between rivers on the fertile crescent in 3000 BC and contributed things such as technology,literature, and Law-codes, had many gods tied to nature

Question 8

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 8

2000 BCE, it is the oldest written story, the legendary story of the king of Uruk, and written in Akkadian

Question 9

Civilization

Answer 9

“Urbanism; technological, industrial and social change; long distance-trade; new methods of symbolic communication.”

Question 10

Ziggurat

Answer 10

Huge pyramids were used as temples for being the center of the city with an impulse toward the eternal

Question 11

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 11

Babylonian and Mesopotamian religion, late 1700 and mid-1900 BCE, Main themes: commerce, male-female relations; parents-children relations

Question 12

The Nile River Valley

Answer 12

3100 BC, upper and lower Egypt, were unified under King Menes of Memphis

Question 13

Pharoh

Answer 13

Powerful kings united Egypt around 3100BC, some believed to be actual gods

Question 14

Pyramids

Answer 14

In Egypt, under the Old Kingdom, skilled artisans, 2000 BC

Question 15

Akhenaten

Answer 15

Pharoh, 13000 BCE

Question 16

The Hebrew People

Answer 16

1400 BC, Egyptian imprisonment, Moses led them out of Egypt, suffered the plagues of Egypt

Question 17

Abraham

Answer 17

Given a promise and covenant by God that he would have many children and he would be the father of many nations.

Question 18

Moses

Answer 18

“son” of Pharoh, led the hebrew people out of Egpyt, parted the Red Sea, was given the 10 commands

Question 19

Homer

Answer 19

750 BCE, The Iliad, and the Odyssey