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Q1 Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Describe the work of an anthropologist? | Scientist who studies the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and there ancestors |
| What is the Sumerian writing system called? | Cuneiform |
| Why did Sumerians built ziggurats? | For there chief god |
| Descried the job of a scribe? | To keep records |
| Where was Mesopotamia located? | Between the Tigris and Euphrates river |
| Describe job of an artisans? | Skilled crafts person |
| Why were the Sumerians able to practice job specialization? | Food surplus |
| Why was Hammurabi's code so important? | Forced all people to treat each other the same |
| What was Hammurabi's motto? | Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth |
| What was the result of food surpluses and job specialization in Mesopotamia? | Trade |
| During the Paleolithic period people were always on the move they were know as what? | Nomads |
| What was the earliest used tool used by the Sumerians? | Sickle |
| Were did most of the early Egyptians live? | By the Nile river valley |
| What was the name of the writing developed by early Egyptians live? | Hieroglyphs |
| Name some of the early Egyptian advancements? | 12 month calendar, geometry, medicine, fractions, and astronomy |
| What helped lead to advancements in Egyptian medicine? | Embalming |
| The Nile river begins between which two rivers? | White and blue river |
| What are pebble tools? | A small rock |
| What is diversified ? | To change something |
| What is a plateau? | An area of level high ground |
| What is prompted? | Cause |
| What is harvesting? | Gather a crop |
| What is a sickle? | Farming tool |
| What do historians do? | Study and write about what people did long ago |
| What do anthropologist do? | Study how different kinds of societies develop look for clues how people related to one another |
| What are artifacts? | Things people made |
| Who was always on the move? | Paleolithic people |
| Name some technology? | Spears, traps, bows, arrows |
| Who were the fist people to use technology? | Paleolithic people |
| What is the name of the hominid that Richard ,Louise, and Marry found? | Lucy |
| Paleolithic people discovered what? | Fire |
| At what time did people start to grow crops? | Around the same time |
| What did the food surplus lead up to? | Growing population |
| Farming allowed people to do what? | Stay in one place |
| What is bronze made out of? | Copper and tin |
| What are Civilizations? | Complex societies |
| Rivers helped people what? | Trade and travel easier |
| What do Civilizations have? | Art, religion, government, class divisions, and a writing system |
| Floods in Mesopotamia were? | Frequent and unpredictable |
| What are people who believe in many gods? | Polytheistic |
| Who was the king of the Akkadians? | Sargon |
| What is the Sumerians oldest story? | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| What did Sargon set up? | Worlds first empire |
| Babylon Quickly became the what? | Center of trade |
| What is Hammurabi known for? | Set of laws or code |
| What did Hammurabi's laws mark an important step to? | System of Justice |
| The Assyrians were the fist to use weapons made out of what? | Iron |
| The Assyrian king divided the empire into what? | Provinces |
| Who had the worlds first library? | Nineveh |
| What is papyrus? | A reed plant that grew along the Nile? |
| Ancient Egypt was ruled by how many Dynasties? | 31 |
| Why did Narmar where a double crown? | For both lower and upper Egypt |
| What are some woman rights? | They could own and pass on property, buy and sell goods, make wills, and obtain divorces |
| Who made the majority of Egypt's population? | Farmers |
| People believed the pharaoh was the sun of what? | Re |
| Re was what god? | The sun god |
| People thought pharaohs were what? | A god on earth |
| People believed that these gods controlled what? | Forces of nature and human actions |
| Why was the sun god Re so important? | Because the sun was needed for good harvest |
| Hapi was the ruler of what? | The Nile river |
| Who was one of the most important goddesses? | Isis |
| What was the book of the dead? | Collection of spells and prayers |
| What did the Egyptians believe after death? | Life after death |
| What did Egyptian doctors use to cure illness? | herbs and drugs |
| Egyptians wrote the first what? | Medical books |
| Egyptians invented a system of written number based on what number? | 10 |
| Egyptians created what? | Fractions |
| What pyramid is the largest in Egypt? | Great Pyramid |
| Who was the great pyramid for? | King Khufu |
| The Middle Kingdom was a golden age of what? | Restored stability, prosperity, and achievement |
| Instead of building pyramids pharaohs had there tombs cut into cliffs called? | Valley of the kings |
| Which Egyptian prince drove the Hyksos out of Egypt. | Ahmose |
| Who was Hatshepsut's nephew? | Thutmose the 3 |
| Amenhotep started a new religion which what happened? | They could only believe in one god named Aton |
| How old was king Tut when he became pharaoh? | 10 |
| Who changed the religion after Amenhotep changed it? | King Tut |
| The most magnificent temples were? | Thebes and Karnak |
| What where temples used for? | Banks and Priests preformed rituals there |
| What two lands were by Egypt during the middle kingdom? | Nubia and Syria |
| What city became the capital of the middle kingdom? | Thebes |
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