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Prehistory to 1500
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Question | Answer |
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What does Neolithic mean? | New stone |
What does Paleolithic mean/ | Old stone |
What place does DNA say we are from? | Africa |
Where is the "birthplace of civilization"? | Mesopotamia |
Where did Homo sapiens sapiens originate from? | Africa |
What was most needed in the Neolithic Age? | Food and security |
Men hunted..? | Woman gathered |
What is race determined by? | Climate |
We are all descendants from who? | Lucy |
What does the word Mesopotamia mean? | Middle Rivers |
Mesopotamia is modern day which country? | Iraq |
What are 3 things all civilizations should have? | 1.) Food surplus 2.) Skilled workers 3.) Advanced cities |
What does Nomads do? | Move from place to place |
What are modern humans called? | Homosapiens |
Mesopotamia is between what two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates |
What does Australopithecines mean? | First upright (first people) |
What is irrigation? | Moving water |
Rivers make land nearby______with_____? | fertile,minerals |
Tools were made of what? | Metal |
Babylonian was centralized what? | Bureaucracy |
Code of Hammurabi was ___ for ___? | eye,eye |
True or false. The Nile River flows north? | True |
The high class people in Europe got more or less punishment? | Less |
What was the name of the stone that the hieroglyphics were found on? | Rosetta Stone. |
About how long is the Nile River? | 4,000 Miles |
The social structure for Egypt was like a _____? | Pyramid |
At the top of the pyramid was the? | Pharaoh |
which was higher on the Social Structure pyramid, the doctor or soldiers? | Doctors |
Put these in the correct order that the were ranked. 1.)warriors 2.) workers 3.) priests | 1.) Priests 2.) Warriors 3.) Workers |
Caste=? | Social level |
The people outside the Caste system were called? | 'Untouchables' |
Meso America is also known as? | Central America |
What year and what country were the Olmec people around? | 1200 BCE-Mexico |
What year and what country were the Maya people around? | 300-900 CE-Mexico |
What year and what country were the Aztec people around? | 1100sCE-Mexico |
What year and what country were the Inca people around? | 1400s CE-Peru |
How any different languages were on the Rosetta Stone? | 3 |
Did most civilizations have the am or different system to live by? | Different |
Untouchables should not be ____, or spoken to? | touched |
European Nomads controlled the ____? | Natives |
What two things made Central America have bad geography? | Mountains and Deserts |
What des Harappa mean? | Ancient Indian |
Natives were also called? | Dravidians |
The untouchables were considered to be __-human? | sub-human |
What country is the Indus river located? | Asia |
European Nomads brought ____ systems? | Caste |
Which animal I considered stupid? | Llama |
What were the two poems Homer wrote called? | Iliad and Odyssey |
What kept the Nomads out of China? | The Great Wall of China |
Sparta was all about what? | War |
Athens was all about? | Democracy |
In a direct democracy who all votes? | Everyone |
What did Alexander the Great conquer most of? | The Mediterranean |
At what age did Alexander the Great conquer he Mediterranean? | 20 |
Which Chinese dynasty was first? | Shang |
What were Oracle Bones? | Questions carved |
Alexander the Great started the ____(golden) age? | Hellenistic |
Men of Sparta were in the military until what age? | 60 |
What war did Athens lose to Sparta? | Peloponnesian |
True or false. the Greeks invented drama? | True |
Suicide instead of trial for corrupting youth was what method? | Socratic |
What does B.C stand for? | Before Christ |
What does A.D stand for? | Anno Domini (in the year of our lord Jesus) |
What does B.C.E stand for? | Before common era |
What does C.E stand for? | Common Era |
Who taught Aristotle? | Plato |
Who taught Alexander the Great? | Aristotle |
What does demo in democracy stand for? | People |
What does cracy in democracy stand for? | Ruled by |
What were the first set of Roman laws called? | 12 tables |
Upper class were called? | Patricians |
Lower class were called? | Plebeians |
Romans had the right to defend themselves in___? | Court |
In Rome, who made laws? | Senate (Patricians) |
Romans were ruled by kings, then who? | Republic |
True or false. The Mongols had the largest empire ever? | True |
Mongols military was considered what? | Unstoppable |
Where is Mali located? | West Africa |
In the beginning Japan had small tribes not one big_____? | Country |
Japan used what kind of system? | Feudal Land System |
Who did the Japanese worship? | Kami (spirits of ancestors) |
What was the Golden Horde and where did the conquer? | (best army) and Russia |
Animate means? | Give life |
Daimyo means? | rich family |
Patri in the word Patricians means? | Father |
In European feudalism, who had the highest power. The king or lord? | king |
Did Jesus have a last name? | No |
Name two important mongols. | Ogedi Kahn and Kublai Khan |
Where did Ogedi Kahn die? | Poland |
Who was Kublai Khans dad? | Ogedi Kahn |
Crusaders brought back texts such as? | Plato and Aristotle |
Muslims preserved texts from ____ and ______? | Greek and Roman |
Why did Pope Urban II send nights on holy crusades to the Middle East? | To reclaim the Holy Land |
What does Pope or (papa) stand for? | Father |
Only ______ priests could marry? | Orthodox |
What was the name of the plague that happened in Europe? | Black |
What was another name for the black plague? | Bubonic |
Where was the black plague transmitted from? | The Middle East by traders |
How many people did it kill? | 1/2 of Europe's population |
What was the Black plague transmitted from? | Rodents, fleas and bacteria |