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Pre-History
Exam 1
Question | Answer |
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Paleolithic | old stone age |
Neolithic | new stone age |
agriculture | lived by water, irrigation |
Venus of Willendorf | strange but important sculpture, think boobs |
Lascaux | cave with important paintings, not lived in |
civilization | agriculture, written languages, cities, domesticated animals |
Mesopotamia | land between two waters (rivers) |
Sumer | South Mesopotamia |
Epic of Gilgamesh | one of the first poems |
zigguarats | artificial mountains, for God's to live on |
baals | Gods |
polytheism | many Gods |
monotheism | one God |
Egypt | hard to get to |
Akhenaton/Amenhotep | Pharaoh, changed name, servent of Aton |
Nefertiti | Amenhotep's wife |
Aton | God |
Amarna art | weird alien heads |
cuneiform | sumer's language, clay tablets, changed languages |
hieroglyphics | Egyptian language, used all 'grams |
'grams | pictograms, ideograms, phonograms |