World Civ Midterms

Question 1

Neolithic Revolution

Answer 1

The NR was 10,000 ya and was a shift from food gathering to food producing.

Question 2

sedentary

Answer 2

Means staying in one place; not nomadic. Humans became sedentary after NR.

Question 3

Hunter-gatherer

Answer 3

Hunter-gatherers were people who used to get food through hunting & gathering.

Question 4

What are the 5 Characteristics of a Civilization?

Answer 4

1) Advanced cities: Urban (large) population, engages in trade
2) Record keeping: physical, as opposed to strictly oral; symbolism, etc.
3) Advanced technology: Innovation, engineering, infrastructure, etc.
4) Complex institutions: Social hierarchy, economy, religion, and government; administrative and organizational entities that provide rule and order
5) Specialization: Jobs/Labor; food surpluses allow for division of labor

Question 4

Nomadic

Answer 4

Moves from place to place

Question 5

Scribe

Answer 5

A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

Question 5

Barter (economy)

Answer 5

“Lunch table economy”; trade; trading goods/service for goods.

Question 6

What is the form of cuneiform

Answer 6

written on clay tablets then baked.

Question 6

Cuneiform

Answer 6

-Means “wedge shaped”; used to keep track of business transactions and taxation, astronomy/calculator; written on clay tablets then baked. (form)
-Used for (function) business, taxes, astronomy
-Used in Sumer (Mesopotamia)〜3400 BC

Question 7

What is the function of cuneiform

Answer 7

Used for business, taxes, astronomy

Question 8

Quipu

Answer 8

Form: String & rope with knots
Function: Counting system
From: The Inca (MesoAmerican)

Question 8

What is the function of a Quipu?

Answer 8

Function: Counting system

Question 8

What is the form of a Quipu?

Answer 8

Form: String & rope with knots

Question 9

hieroglyphics

Answer 9

-Pictographs, originally carved into stone or wood; used to record rulers, quantities of goods, cosmological/religious ideas. *Papyrus
-Form: Carvings in wood or stone, or written on papyrus
-Function: Used to record rulers, quantities of goods, cosmological/religious ideas.
From: Ancient Egypt (after Sumer)

Question 10

What is the function of a hieroglyph?

Answer 10

Function: Used to record rulers, quantities of goods, cosmological/religious ideas.

Question 11

What is the form of a hieroglyph?

Answer 11

Form: Carvings in wood or stone, or written on papyrus

Question 12

Codex/Codices (ID)

Answer 12

system of glyphs written on stone and in wood bark books called codices (sing. codex)
used to record history, dynastic rulers, and cosmological events
Maya had created hundreds to thousands of codices
Used to record history, Maya religion
Catholic Spanish arrived in 1519
Determined to convert indigenous to Catholicism
Bishop Diego de Landa burned the books because he believed they were filled with images and ideas from the devil.

Question 13

What is the form of the codices?

Answer 13

system of glyphs written on stone and in wood bark books

Question 14

What is the function of the codices?

Answer 14

used to record history, dynastic rulers, and cosmological events

Question 15

Why are there so few codices left?

Answer 15

Bishop Diego de Landa burned the books because he believed they were filled with images and ideas from the devil.

Question 16

Papyrus

Answer 16

writing surface made of reeds

Question 17

oracle bones

Answer 17

Form: Animal Bone
Function: record politics, religion, technology, clarity from ancestors
Stick w/ hot poker to make it crack
Write answer on the back after reading cracks

Question 18

form vs. function

Answer 18

What is it (made of)
What was it used for?

Question 19

MesoAmerica

Answer 19

Culture in N&S America before Europeans.

Question 20

Rosetta Stone (ID)

Question 21

Benin Bronzes

Question 22

British Museum

Question 23

pharaoh

Question 23

monarchy

Question 24

dynasty/dynastic

Question 25

monotheism

Question 26

polytheism

Question 27

animism

Question 28

theocracy

Question 29

Djoser’s Step Pyramid (ID)