World Civ 1 Flash Cards

Question 1

Historians interpret the past using

Answer 1

Sources

Question 2

Historians rely heavily on?

Answer 2

Written word

Question 3

What are the categories of history?

Answer 3

Military, Political, Social, and Cultural

Question 4

What are hominins?

Answer 4

Early human like primates

Question 5

Homo-erectus is the

Answer 5

Upright man

Question 6

Which ice age was the worst one?

Answer 6

The second one

Question 7

How old is the oldest human specimen?

Answer 7

300,000 years ago

Question 8

Is Sedenentary or Non-sedentary society more equal?

Answer 8

Non-sedentary

Question 9

What type of terrain would encourage a society to settle down?

Answer 9

Water/Rivers

Question 10

Mesopotamia means?

Answer 10

Land between Two Rivers

Question 11

What are ziggurats?

Answer 11

Mesopotamian temples

Question 12

What are Assyrians known for?

Answer 12

Being the first to unify all of the middle east

Question 13

Egypt is known as?

Answer 13

The gift of the Nile

Question 14

Memphis was?

Answer 14

The capital of egypt

Question 15

What caused the fall of the old kingdom?

Answer 15

Failure of the Nile to flood, and sever famines

Question 16

What is the best primary resource do we have on Egypt?

Answer 16

The book of the dead

Question 17

Who was the Sun God in Egyptian religion?

Answer 17

Amen

Question 18

When did the first Americans arrive?

Answer 18

20,000 years ago

Question 19

Who became the Buddha?

Answer 19

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 20

Who wrote the art of war?

Answer 20

Sun Tzu