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Pre-History
Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |