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Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus, Huang He (China)

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Who from, Babylonian culture made the first written law code? What civilization is he/she from?   Hammurabi made the first Law Code called the Code of Hammurabi. He is from the civilization Mesopotamia.  
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Where is Egypt?   North East Africa  
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Where is Mesopotamia?   Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Asia  
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Where is Indus?   On the Indus River in India.  
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Where is Huang-He?   China  
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What kind of government is the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Huang-He civilizations?   Monarchy  
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What is a monarchy   When a King/Queen rules  
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Who is Amenhotep? Where is he from?   He wanted to change Egypt's religion from monotheistic to polytheistic, making him the only leader.  
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Who is Lanizees II? Where is he from?   He is a major Pharaoh from Egypt.  
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Who is Shi Huang Di? Where is he from.   A famous emperor from China from created the Great Wall of China.  
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What is a citadel and what civilization uses them?   Strong central forces...Indus  
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What civilization used a solar calender as well as a lunar calendar?   Huang He.  
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What civilization used hieroglyphics?   Egypt  
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What are hieroglyphics?   Rock on stone  
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What civilization used cuneiform?   Mesopotamia  
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What is cuneiform?   clay tablet used to form letters  
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What civilization used Sanskrit?   Indus  
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What is Sanskrit?   pictures  
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What civilization used pictographs?   Huang He  
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What forms of writing did Huang He have?   pictographs --> ideograph --> calligraphy -->  
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What are pictographs?   pictures per word  
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What civilization had pyramids?   Egypt  
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What civilization had ziggurats?   Mesopotamia.  
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What is a Ziggurat?   stacks for religion  
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What civilization created sewers?   Indus  
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What civilization had MANY inventions?   Huang-He  
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Name 3 crops people might have grown   wheat barley cotton rice  
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Name 5 animals a civilization might have   pig chicken horse sheep cow goat  
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Name 5 jobs a civilization may have   scribe farmer architect trader soldier merchant artisan preist government official  
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What do you call someone who studies culture?   anthropologist  
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Who uses artifacts to tell about facts?   archeology  
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What is the name of the earliest bones?   Lucy  
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What are the three stone ages?   Neolithic, Mesolithic, and Paleolithic  
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What do we call the human like creatures who came before us?   Neanderthals  
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What are our descendants called?   Cromagnins  
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where did the names Neanderthal and Cromagnin come from?   where they were found  
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What changes take place in civilization due to the Neolithic Revolution?   Domestication of animals, and agriculture.  
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What were the first two jobs in society?   hunters and gatherers  
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Most time periods are named after what?   The materials they used to make tools  
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We called the spread from one area to another __________?   cultural diffusion  
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What cultures diffused?   Chinese --> Mongolians (Great wall of China) Phanitions --> Everywhere(Phonics wring) Persians --> Egypt  
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What are the two gifts of the nile?   tide and wind goes opposite directions...it floods the same time each year.  
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What artifact let us know about Egyptian culture?   Rosetta Stone  
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What two civilizations divide time into dinesties?   Egyptian and Chinese  
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The most early civilization had what for of religion?   polytheistic  
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Which culture went with a monotheistic concept? under what leader?   Egyptians...Aminotep  
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Which culture of Mesopotamia put together the largest empire?   Pergans  
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What seasonal river/rain affected the Indus River Valley?   Monsoons  
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Who are the political leaders in the Indus River Valley?   Raja  
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Why don't we know much about the Indus River Valley?   because of their underspecified language written in Sanskrit  
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What culture uses the cast system?   Indus River valley  
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What is the cast system?   can't move up/down in society  
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What society had man date of heaven?   China  
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What culture thought they were the "Middle Kingdom"?   China  
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What did the Chinese use to foretell the future?   oracle bones  
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What culture came into India and set up a new social class?   Indalarians  
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The earliest cultures had what type of economy?   barber  
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What is the name of the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia?   Sumerians  
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Which civilization is most west?   Egypt  
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