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Origins & Ancestors
Origins and Ancestors to Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of hominds called | Anthropology |
| Another name for the Middle Stone Age is | Mesolithic |
| The scientific name for the creature who walks upright is | Homo Erectus |
| What was the Homo Erectus's greatest achievement? | Language |
| What was the period called when people stopped hunting and became farmers during the Neolithic Age? | Neolithic Revolution |
| What were the creatures called who were defined as persons with ability | Homo Habilis |
| What is the name given to humanlike creatures and human beings? | hominids |
| What is Homo Sapien? | The name for the creature defined as one who thinks |
| Another name for the Old Stone Age | Paleolithic |
| What is a remnant or impression of an organism from a past geologic age called? | fossil |
| Those who study hominid bones and fossils looking for changes in features are called | Anthropologists |
| What is the History of Mankind before writing was developed? | Prehistory |
| What is the name for wise wise human being? | Homo Sapien Sapien |
| Another name for new stone age is | Neolithic |
| A way of life including language, way of dress, religious beliefs, art and music is called | culture |
| Dating an object by the light given off by electrons trapped in the soil surrounding fossils and artifacts is called | Thermoluminescence |
| What is the name given to the age when hominids starting using tools? | Stone Age |
| Another name for southern Ape | Australopithecine |
| Those who study fossil remains to determine characteristics of various prehistoric periods are called | Paleontologists |
| What are skills and knowledge used by people to make tools and do work? | technology |
| Who were the first Homo Sapiens | Neanderthal's |
| The term Homo means | Human or Man |
| early hominids were able to migrate because of land bridges that were formed during four of these | Ice Ages |
| Dating an object by measuring radioactive carbon(c14) which decays at a known rate is called | radiocarbon dating |
| A member of a group of people with no fixed home who travel constantly to find food and water are called | Nomads |
| Hammurabi developed a code of these which clearly stated violations and punishments | Laws |
| Who was the best known leader of the Babylonian Empire? | Hammurabi |
| Why do we study History? | to compare present day problems o similar situations |
| Civilizations developed near | rivers |
| Resisting Invasion from other villages was why early ----------- were formed | governments |
| Hammurabi's code is similar or American Law because it lists the rights of citizens for __________ and _____________ | violations and punishments |
| Highly Organized Society marked by advance knowledge of trade, government, arts, science and ofteh written language is called | civilization |
| A oerson skilled in a craftis called an | artisan |
| The system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet peoples needs is called an | economy |
| What is a traditional story that explains natural events | Myth |
| What is the exchange of goods, ideas and customs among different cultures called/ | Cultural Diffusion |
| What is the birthplace of History? | Sumer |
| Mesopotamia is also called | the Fertile Crescent |
| What is the city and the land surrounding it | City-State |
| City states have a common culture, language and __________ | religion |
| Cities marked the beginning of | History |
| Fossils can show the changes that occur over time in plants and animals as they adapt for survival is proof that fossils support the theory of | Evolution |
| What were Jericho on the West Bank and Catal Huyak in Turkey | two of the earliest villages uncovered by Anthropologists |
| The Akkadians under Sargon I were the first _________ in Mesopotamia | empire |
| The Wagon wheel, Potters Wheel, a number system based on 60, the first bronze and mteal plow were all technological achievements of | the Sumerians |
| The belief in many gods is caled | polytheism |
| What is considered the oldest writing in the world? | Cunieform |
| In Sumeria, what is made of mud brick, decorated with color tile, was a series of terraces 6 to 7 stories high where only priests or priestesses were allowed at the top | Ziggurat |
| Mesopotamia means/ | the land between two rivers |
| The first civilization in the Ancient Middle East | Sumeria |
| B.C MEANS | Before Christ |
| A.D. MEANS | Anno Domini or the Year of our Lord |
| 4,400,000 B.C. is before of after 8000 B.C | BEFORE |
| to be tamed for human use is the definition of | domesticate |
| the largest neolithic village discovered so far was the village of | Catal Huyak in Turkey |
| Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus or Homo Sapien discovered Fire | Homo Erectus |
| Louis and Mary Leakey provided most of what we konw about the Homo | Homo Habilis |
| The first Hominid specie believed to leave Africa was Homo | Erectus |
| The development of this ???????? allowed an oder generation to pass on culture to the younger generations enabling new gnerations to build upon knowledge of the past | Language |
| diety is another word for | god |
| the first known empire is Mesopotamis was the | Akkad |
| the Cro-Magnon is believed to be the first Homo | Sapien Sapien |
| name the four earlies river valley civilization | Tigris and Euphrates (Modern Day Iraq), the Nile, The Indus River Valley (India and Pakistan) and the Huang He (China) |
| The sharing of ideas between cultures which often became possible because of Trade is aldo known as | cultural diffusion |
| it is believed that ??????? originated in records priest, kept record of items of religious offerings, records of leaders, kings victories, legal codes and medical texts | writing |
| Literal is defined as | a concern mainly with facts |
| stories explaining how world was formed, how people came into being and what they owned their creators are known as | myths |
| The culture known as experts at war that was the first to use iron weapons were the | Hittites |
| The civiliation in the Fertile Crescent in which the biblical leader Nebuchadnezzar came from was the | Chaldeans |
| The Persians divided the fertile crescent into provinces known as | satraps and its governors were known as satrapies |
| The Persians were polytheistic and were called to reform by their prophet Zoroaster who started a religion known as Zoroastorism, this prophet is believed to have influenced the three monotheistic religions which are | Christianity, Judaism and Islam |
| Language that is meant to be interpreted as stated | literal |
| language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense | figurative |
| a _________ is the underlying message or meaning | theme |
| a _________ is something that has a meaning in itself and also suggests more than it represents -for example quality, attitude, belief | symbol |
| a struggle between two opposing forces is called a ____________ | conflict |
| the theory that states that complex organisms develop from simpler ones is called | evolution |
| the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin (1849) that explains how plants and animals arose and continued to survive over the passage of time by constantly adapting to changes in their environment (survival of the fittest) is called | Darwinism |
| ____________ is learned behavior (RESTS model) | Culture |
| The RESTS model includes five items, they are Religion, _________, social and political organization, ____________ and symbolic expression | economics, technology |
| _____________ is the interpretations made by analyzing material and drawing conclusions, they are based on facts but are not facts | inference |
| a __________ is a narrative, a _________ is a story that presents the beliefs of a people and/or explains a phenomenon which they do not understand while a _________ is a narrative passed down whose truth is popularly accepted but cannot be verified | story, Myth, legend |
| the power to see things/objects in relationship to each other is called | perspective |
| the ________a religious book that conveys religious truths, not necessarily scientific or historical truths | the bible |
| beginnings ( in the bible) | genesis |
| an agrrement or a promise or a contrat is called a | covenant |
| the male who is head of the clan is known as the | patriarch |
| a _____or_________is a person who possesses and displays outstanding qualities such as courage, intelligence, leadership etc | hero/heroine |
| a number of families claiming a common ancestor is known as a _____ | clan |
| many clans together is called a | tribe |
| a group of people with a common interest living together within a larger society is known as a | community |
| a ceremony can also be known as a | ritual |
| a person who has no permanent home but wanders from place to place either individually or as part of a group generally in search of food and water is known as a _____ | nomad |
| the forced removal of a person from one's home or country; one who separates himself/herself from home or country is called | exile |
| to exclude from a group by common consent is to | ostracize |
| a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social group. A dialect differs from the standard speech of a country in sentence pattern, vocabulary and pronunciation | dialect |
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