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World History Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Located in a part of ancient western, Asia/ often called the “Cradle of Civilization”

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Fertile Crescent

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“between the rivers”

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Mesopotamia

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What are the two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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What is the main part of Mesopotamia?

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Plain of Shinar

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What is the site of the first postdiluvian civilization?

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Sumer

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What are the three oldest Sumerian settlements?

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Eridu
Uruk
Ur

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Which part of the world did the Sumerians live in?

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Extremely dry part

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What did the Sumerians do to survive the environment?

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  • they built dams and dikes for flood control
  • they built canals for irrigation
  • they invented the wheel
  • they developed the plow with a seeding attachment in able for farmers to seed and plow at the same time
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What did the Sumerians make extensive use of?

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Domesticated animals

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How did the Sumerians make extensive use of domesticated animals?

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Through animal husbandry and crop-raising

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What is the most important Sumerian beast of burden?

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The ox

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What was the Sumerians greatest contribution to civilization?

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The art of writing

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What was the writing that the Sumerians invented called?

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Cuneiform writing

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What are the three major stages of cuneiform writing?

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  • Pictogram
  • Ideogram
  • Phonogram
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Which English army officer of the 19th century made Cuneiform writing known to modern man?

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Sir Henry C. Rawlinson

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What are the four stages of Sumerian Chronology?

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  • Early Dynastic Age
  • Old Akkadian Period
  • Third Dynasty of Ur
  • Golden Age of Ur
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Which Semitic warrior king warred against the Sumerian city-sates and United them by conquest, ending the Early Dynasty Age?

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Sargon of Akkad

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A Semitic language written with cuneiform characters

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Akkadian

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History’s second great empire builder

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Sargon of Akkad

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Who founded the Third Dynasty of Ur? In what year?

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Ur-Nammu; 2100 B.C.

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Way of life of a group of people

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Culture

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Developed the world’s most ancient law code

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Ur-Nammu

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Formed when people’s culture includes specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, and organized from of civil government, and the development of the arts and sciences

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Civilization

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What is the most important part of a civilization?

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Mastery over the food supply

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Who are the members of the world first civilization?

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The Sumerians

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What is the process of transmitting the cultural heritage of a people from one generation to the next?

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Education

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Who were the first to develop a system of formal schooling?

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The Sumerians

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Sumerian school that means “Tablet house”

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Edubba

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What does Nimrod mean?

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Mighty hunter

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The most important Sumerian industry in terms of commercial activity

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Textiles

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Huge temple towers constructed but the Sumerians

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Ziggurats

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What were the Sumerians’ contributions to math and science?

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  • They divided the circle into 6x60 or 360
  • They were the first astronomers
  • They divided the year into lunar months
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The false belief that heavenly bodies influence, human affairs and destiny

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Astrology

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Term for Sumerian king meaning “big man”

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Lugal

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How many city states did Sumer consist of?

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12 city states

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True/false Sumerian culture was in accordance with Bible

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False

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What are the four classes of people in each of the 12 city-states of Sumer?

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  • Nobles
  • Commoners
  • Clients
  • Slaves
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Class of consisting of well-to-do temple employees; administrators, craftsmen, other temple workers, workers of estates of nobility?

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Clients

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Who did the Sumerians worship?

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An, “the God if a heaven”

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Which class consists of ruling princes and their families, palace administrators, and more important priests of the temple

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Nobles

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Belief in one God

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Monotheism

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What became of the Sumerians’ beliefs afterwards? What three words describes their faith?

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The Sumerians became
- Naturalists, worshipping nature more than the Creator of nature
- Humanists, glorifying immortal being with supernatural powers
- Polytheists, worshipping multiple gods

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A long poem written in a dignified form, which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero

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Epic

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The world’s oldest work of literature outside the Bible

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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What year was Abraham living in Ur?

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About 2000 B.C.

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What class of consisted of free citizens living in patriarchal families?

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Commoners

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What is the spreading of cultural traits and patterns?

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Cultural diffusion

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Which class consists if workers of the temple, palaces, and estates

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Slaves

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