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World History 7-8
pages 7-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What followed after the stone age? | Bronze age |
| What did people learn to make? | Bronze tools, ornaments, and weapons. |
| What is bronze made of? | Copper and tin. |
| What main inventions was made during the bronze age in Mesopotamia? | Plow, wheel, money, cities, armies, and chariots, and irrigation. |
| What marked the end of prehistoric times and the beginning of ancient times? | Bronze age/ writing. |
| When did the bronze age start and begin? | Start- 4000BC End- 1000BC at the begining of the Iron age |
| Egypt learned to do what from Mesopotamia? | Irrigate, plow, and how to write. |
| After civilization began in Mesopotamia around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where did civilizations move to? | Egypt, Nile river |
| The Nile was important to Egypt because it gave them what? | Irrigation water, fertile soils due to annual floods, and easy transportation by boat. |
| The Nile split Egypt into what two lands? | Land of the living on the east bank, and the land of the dead on the west bank. Sun rises in the east and sets at the west |
| What geographic features/ natural barriers are in Egypt? | The Nile River and the Sahara Desert. |
| Egyptian Civilization lasted for how long? | 3,000 years |
| Egyptians had a Polytheistic religion. What are the two main gods? | Ra- god of sun and life. Osiris- god of rebirth. |
| What did Egypt make that is still around today? | Art, literature, architectural feats that include huge tombs of pharaohs, the Sphinx, and the great pyramids near Cairo. |
| What two gods represent the eternal struggle between good and evil? | Osiris and his evil brother Set |
| The 365 day calender we use today came from Egypt and then adopted by the Romans, what is it based on? | The solar year. |
| What were Pharaohs worshiped as? | Gods. |
| Where did the Pharaohs, and Egypt's, wealth come from? | The bountiful agriculture. |
| The Pharaohs controlled the strong central government that built what public works? | Irrigation systems that controlled the Nile's flooding. |
| Ramses II (Ramses the Great) was a warrior as well as what? | A builder of great temples, statues, and monuments that still stand today. |
| Queen Hatsheput was the first important woman in Egyptian history, who was the last? | Cleopatra |
| How many dynasties did Egypt have? | Thirty-one |
| What Pharaoh died at the age of 18? | King Tut (Tutankhamen) |
| Why is King Tut so famous? | The discovery of his unplundered tomb in the 1920's. |
| When societies grew larger, government became necessary to provide what? | A orderly way to make decisions and maintain public safety. |
| Only the government could ensure what to farmers? | That they would receive their fair share of water and that all farmers maintained their ditches so irrigation systems would not break down. |
| What functions do governments do? | Maintain public water systems, national deffence and education. |
| What is a monarcy based on? | Rule by a royal family or dynasty. |
| what is democracy based on? | Rule by the people. |
| What type of rule is when one person takes controll of a nation with help with the military? | Dictatorship. |
| Ancient Egyptians are preoccupied with what? | The afterlife |
| For an Egyptian, what had to be done in order to enter the afterlife? | Their body had to be mummified, religious rituals had to be preformed by priests,and they had to preform goods works during their life. |
| What did embalmers do to the bodies in order to mummify them? | Remove vital organs, dry out the body, and then rap the linen straps. |
| Where and what are the most famous burial tombs of ancient Egypt? | The Great Pyramids at Giza near Cairo. |
| What were the pyramids used for? | Burial tombs. |
| The pyramids are the oldest and the only remaining examples of what? | The Seven Great Wonders of the ancient world |
| How much did the limestone blocks, on average, weigh? | 2.5 tons each. |
| The Spinx had the head body of a lion and the head of a what? | Pharaoh. |
| The age of pyramid building lasted from 2700BC to what year? | 1000BC |
| What are hieroglyphics? | Ancient Egyptian system of writing that used pictures to represent words |
| Egyptians card hieroglyphs into stone and they wrote on what? | Papyrus. |
| Paper today gets its name from what? | Papyrus. |
| Why was papyrus so popular? | It was lightweight, compact, and portable. |
| What discovery by Napoleon in the late 1700's allowed people to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics? | The Rosetta Stone. |
| What language was the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone written in? | Greek. |
| What has the Rosetta Stone come to mean? | "The key to understanding a difficult problem." |
| What country is located in the northeast corner of Africa? | Egypt. |
| What is the second-largest continent after Asia? | Africa. |
| What geological feature is located in the northern area of Africa? | The Sahara |
| What geological features are in the south of Africa? | Kalahari Desert and the Congo River basin. |
| What geological features are in the eastern part of Africa? | The Great Rift Valley, the Nile river, and Africa's highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro. |
| What is a savanna? | A large land area in central and southeast Africa with grasslands and scattered trees. |
| What is the longest river in the world? | The Nile River. |
| What is a delta? | A flat area of land the sometimes form at the mouths of rivers where the rivers deposit sediments as they flow into the ocean. |
| What are the two largest Egyptians cities names? | Cairo and Alexandria. |
| What desert is about the size of the United States? | The Sahara, it is also the worlds largest dry desert. |
| The Sahara desert separates northern Africa from what? | Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| The Sahara is from the Atlantic ocean in the west to the Red Sea on the east and is still expanding where? | To the south. |
| What is the land called that lies south of the desert? | Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Why do humans skin become darker or lighter? | To accommodate the amount of the suns rays that they take in. Darker skin means takes in less rays, lighter skin means takes in more. |
| How many years do scientists say it took for the humans skin to change from black to white as they moved out of Africa? | 20,000 years. |
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