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Unit 1 questions.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened around 250,000 years ago? | Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa. |
| What were settlements planned around? | Seasonal movements of game and fish. |
| What do beads,ornaments,and pigments such as ocher have to do with today? | It was what they used in funeral burials in ancient times which we evolved into todays funeral burials. |
| What type of tools did they use first? | Stone. |
| Where did human migration first go to? | To the Middle East and from there westward to into Europe and eastward into Asia. |
| What do scholars believe the first painting where used for? | Like a ritual to attract animals since the first drawing were of animals. |
| What new technologies happened in Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia? | Bone needles ,multilateral clothing,weaving,nets, storage pits, baskets, and pottery. |
| What does all this suggest? | That people had started to live in more permanent settlements. |
| What are Venus figurines? | Figurines used to help women with fertility. |
| How did people migrate to Australia? | By boats. |
| What was dreamtime? | It recounted the beginnings of things. |
| What is diffusion? | The process where people from different civilizations interchanged items. |
| What is a Clovis point? | A sharpened stone kind of like a arrowhead. |
| Why did Clovis point people disappear? | They killed out all of there food sources such as Bison and Mammoths. |
| What was the last human migration? | The Pacific ocean (Philippians, New Zealand, New Guinea) |
| What did they take with them in their journeys? | Domesticated plants and animals also male and females which meant they wanted to colonize the land. |
| What happened to large species? | They became extinct. |
| What was a big flightless bird that went extinct? | The dodo bird. |
| How big were the societies? | Around 25 people that were kin. |
| How big was the word population? | Around 10,000 people. |
| What caused it to grow to 6 million 10,000 years ago? | The Agricultural Evolution. |
| How where the relationship between men and women? | Very equal. |
| What was the role of and women? | Women were the gatherers and men were the hunters. |
| What was a world taboo? | Incest. |
| What happened to Neanderthals? | It could have been because homo sapiens killed them,interbreeding or peaceful competition. |
| Cyclical view? | A cycle like reincarnation. |
| Was the ancient warming phase totaly natural? | Yes. |
| What did the end of the ice age provide? | More animals and more plant growth to other areas that they couldn't before. |
| Were bows and arrows invented separately around the world? | Yes. |
| What does Paleolithic mean? | Old stone. |
| Neolithic? | New stone: think of farming (Agricultural revolution) |
| What is domestication? | The taming of nature for human benefit. |
| More food equals? | More people. |
| What was extraordinarily odd about the Neolithic Revolution? | Everything that occurred, separately and independently. |
| Warmer and wetter was what? | Better. |
| What happened if they're was a food crisis? | The civilization was in bad trouble. |
| Was the Sahara a dessert then? | Nope. |
| Out of all fourteen domesticated animals what did the Americas have? | The only animal the Americas had was the dumb Llama. |
| What happened because of the lack of animals? | The Americas were behind. |
| Was corn always as big as it is now? | No. |
| How did the Bantu kill most people? | By animal borne diseases. |
| Did the agricultural revolution take place every where? | No. |
| What was odd about Catalhuyuk? | When their loved ones died they buried them in their house and built another one on top on it. |
| How was men and women different? | Society became more patriarchy. |
| What is a lineage? | Your family tree. |
| Cahokia? | A civilization near St.Louis Missouri. |
| What did chiefs do? | They led important rituals,ceremonies, organized the communities for warfare, directed its economic life and secular functions. |
| What started to happen in these communities? | Social classes. |
| What happened around 3500 B.C.E ? | Six major locations for societies popped up around the world. |
| What were the "Big Six"? | Mexico (Olmec), Mesopotamia, Peru (Norte Chico),China, Indus river valley, Egypt (The Nile) |
| When did the earliest civilizations emerge? | Around 3500 to 3000 B.C.E. |
| Who where the Norte Chico? | A ancient Civilization in Peru. |
| What were their homes like? | Apartments. |
| What was the economy based on? | Unusual large fishing industry in anchovies and sardines. |
| What was it exchanged for? | Cotton, fishing net, as well as crops like squash, beans, and guava. |
| Did they develop pottery or writing? | Nope. |
| Did they have defensive walls? | No they weren't very violent people. |
| Who was the Indus Valley people? | A large civilization in South East Asia (India) |
| Did they have kings, warriors, palaces,or temples? | Nope and they had no political hierarchy. |
| What likely killed out this civilization? | They cut down lots of trees for making mud bricks which caused erosion and irrigation which caused them to have salt in the soil. |
| When did the first real Chinese dynasty civilization take place? | 1766 B.C.E -1122 B.C.E |
| What dynasty was it? | The Shang. |
| What was the name of the second dynasty? | The Zhou. |
| When did they come into rein? | 1122 B.C.E -256 B.C.E |
| What is Mandate of Heaven? | That God sent you to be king but could be kicked out if he didn't cause social harmony. |
| Who were the Olmecs? | A civilization in Mexico. |
| What have we discovered about them? | That they could have created the first written languages in the Americas by about 900 B.C.E |
| Who was the Uruks? | Mesopotamia largest civilization. |
| How many people did it have around the third millennium B.C.E ? | 50,000. |
| When did the Mahenjo flourish? | Around 2000 B.C.E |
| What was the climate like in Eurasia and North America? | Very cold covered in thick sheets of ice. |
| Africa and the Middle East? | Warmer Climates. |
| Prologue Comparison where women largely the same in all patriarchy societies? | Most women were treated the same. |
| Prologue Connections What happened when people of distinct civilization met? | They usually traded goods with each other but could have also killed one another because of animal borne diseases. |
| Chapter 1 comparison, How did Austronesian migrations differ from earlier human migrations? | They used boats. |
| Chapter 1 Change Why did some paleolithic people abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live a more civilized life? | The Agricultural Revolution. |
| Chapter 2 Change What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life without it? | It created more food. |
| Chapter 2 Comparison In what different ways did the Agricultural Revolution take shape in various parts of the world? | Places like the Fertile Crescent got the full experience but large populations would go through dry spells and would kill out all there crops. |
| Chapter 2 Connection In what ways did agricultural spread? Where and why was it sometimes resisted? | The first is called diffusion. The second process involved a slow colonization or migration of agricultural peoples as growing populations pushed them outwards. |
| Chapter 3 Change When and where did the First Civilization Emerge? | 3500 B.C.E-3000 B.C.E in Mesopotamia. |
| Chapter 3 Comparison How did Mesopotamia and Egyptian patriarchy differ? | Mesopotamia women had no rights Egyptian women could own land, sign contracts for themselves, rule, own slaves. |
| Chapter 3 Connections In what ways were Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations shaped by their interactions with near and distant neighbors. | They would trade goods. |
| Norte Chico? | Ancient Civilization that gave birth to other societies like the Mayans and Aztecs. |
| Indus Valley Civilization? | First civilization in South Asia. |
| Olmec Civilization? | Old Mexican civilization. |
| Uruk? | Mesopotamia's largest civilization. |
| Code of Hammurabi? | Set of strict laws with punishments based on your social class. |
| Mohjeno? | Largest Indus river valley civilization. |
| Patriarchy? | A society where women are dominated by a male figure in there life. |
| rise of the State? | Making Countries that were ruled by an official with other social classes. |
| Epic Gilgamesh? | Ancient story about a flood that covered the earth. |
| Egypt:Gift of the Nile? | The Nile provided fertile soil which let the Egyptians have good crops. |
| Nubia? | A region along the Nile. |
| Hyksos? | People who invaded Egypt. |
| What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human communities? | Had social classes, military and economics. |
| How does the use of of the term civilization differ from what we use it as today? | We say civilization is just a place where people live, and back term back then meant a human society with social classes, military and economics. |
| Do you think civilization were held together largely by force? | No I think it was mainly held together because of farming. |
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