World History Chapter 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent

Question 2

“between the rivers”

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

What are the two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 3

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 4

What is the main part of Mesopotamia?

Answer 4

Plain of Shinar

Question 5

What is the site of the first postdiluvian civilization?

Answer 5

Sumer

Question 6

What are the three oldest Sumerian settlements?

Answer 6

Eridu
Uruk
Ur

Question 7

Which part of the world did the Sumerians live in?

Answer 7

Extremely dry part

Question 8

What did the Sumerians do to survive the environment?

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

What did the Sumerians make extensive use of?

Answer 9

Domesticated animals

Question 10

How did the Sumerians make extensive use of domesticated animals?

Answer 10

Through animal husbandry and crop-raising

Question 11

What is the most important Sumerian beast of burden?

Answer 11

The ox

Question 12

What was the Sumerians greatest contribution to civilization?

Answer 12

The art of writing

Question 13

What was the writing that the Sumerians invented called?

Answer 13

Cuneiform writing

Question 14

What are the three major stages of cuneiform writing?

Answer 14

• Pictogram
• Ideogram
• Phonogram

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Sir Henry C. Rawlinson

Question 16

What are the four stages of Sumerian Chronology?

Answer 16

• Early Dynastic Age
• Old Akkadian Period
• Third Dynasty of Ur
• Golden Age of Ur

Question 17

Which Semitic warrior king warred against the Sumerian city-sates and United them by conquest, ending the Early Dynasty Age?

Answer 17

Sargon of Akkad

Question 18

A Semitic language written with cuneiform characters

Answer 18

Akkadian

Question 19

History’s second great empire builder

Answer 19

Sargon of Akkad

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Ur-Nammu; 2100 B.C.

Question 21

Way of life of a group of people

Answer 21

Culture

Question 22

Developed the world’s most ancient law code

Answer 22

Ur-Nammu

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Civilization

Question 24

What is the most important part of a civilization?

Answer 24

Mastery over the food supply

Question 25

Who are the members of the world first civilization?

Answer 25

The Sumerians

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Education

Question 27

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

Answer 27

The Sumerians

Question 28

Sumerian school that means “Tablet house”

Answer 28

Edubba

Question 29

What does Nimrod mean?

Answer 29

Mighty hunter

Question 30

The most important Sumerian industry in terms of commercial activity

Answer 30

Textiles

Question 31

Huge temple towers constructed but the Sumerians

Answer 31

Ziggurats

Question 32

What were the Sumerians’ contributions to math and science?

Answer 32

- They divided the circle into 6x60 or 360 - They were the first astronomers - They divided the year into lunar months

Question 33

The false belief that heavenly bodies influence, human affairs and destiny

Answer 33

Astrology

Question 34

Term for Sumerian king meaning “big man”

Answer 34

Lugal

Question 35

How many city states did Sumer consist of?

Answer 35

12 city states

Question 36

True/false Sumerian culture was in accordance with Bible

Answer 36

False

Question 37

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

Answer 37

- Nobles - Commoners - Clients - Slaves

Question 38

Class of consisting of well-to-do temple employees; administrators, craftsmen, other temple workers, workers of estates of nobility?

Answer 38

Clients

Question 39

Who did the Sumerians worship?

Answer 39

An, “the God if a heaven”

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Nobles

Question 41

Belief in one God

Answer 41

Monotheism

Question 42

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

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Epic

Question 44

The world’s oldest work of literature outside the Bible

Answer 44

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 45

What year was Abraham living in Ur?

Answer 45

About 2000 B.C.

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Commoners

Question 47

What is the spreading of cultural traits and patterns?

Answer 47

Cultural diffusion

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Slaves