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World History SOL
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Old Stone Age (s.5 mil to 10,000 BC) | Paleolithic Era |
| What do scientists believe? | Homo sapiens first emerged from the continet of Africa about 100,000 years ago |
| How was food acquired (same during the Old Stone Age)(Nomads acquired food this way)? | Hunting & gathering |
| Nomad means | wandered in search of food |
| Nomads... | depended on plants & animals for food and shelter, lived with groups of relatives called clans |
| During the Paleolithic Era.. | oral language was developed which helped communication & stone tools were invented which showed the creativity of early men |
| New Stone Age (8,000 BC to 3,000 BC) | Neolithic Era |
| What are archeologists? | people who study the material remains of humans by examining artifacts and fossils |
| What are anthropologists? | People who study the development, behavior, and physical features of people from the past |
| What took place during 3,300 - ? | Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia... | first civilization and was established in the Fertile Crescent, advantages of settling in this area during this time is that rich soil was produced by floods |
| Two most important rivers in Mesopotamia? | Tigris & Euphrates |
| Who invented a system of wedged-shaped writing called cuneiform? | Sumerians |
| What took place during 1150-850? | Phoenicians |
| Invented the first alphabet; were the best sailors and traders around the Mediterranean Sea around 1100 BC | Phoenicians |
| First law code (Code of Hammurabi) created by who? | Babylonians |
| Known for religious temples (Ziggurats)? | Babylonians |
| Aka Hebrews? | Jews |
| Founder of Judaism | Abraham |
| Freed from Egypt by Moses (Exodus); most important law codes are the Ten Commandments | Jews |
| Jews.... | forced to leave their homeland of Israel & had to live in the Diaspora; included parts of Europe, North Africa & the Middle East |
| First major monotheistic religion | Judaism |
| Hitties invented...? | iron tools |
| What took place during 547 - 331 BC? | Persians |
| Helped trade go smoother by using money instead of barter? | Persians |
| Persians.... | connected their empire with a system of roads; practice tolerance over people that they conquered, letting them keep their own religion and customs |
| Persia had what type of bureaucracy? | Imperial in which people in hte government did different jobs like collecting taxes & serving in the Army |
| What type of religion did Persia have? | Monotheistic religion (Zoroastrianism) |
| Egyptians.... | Nile was good for transportation because of the flow of the river; easy for travel; source is Lake Victoria |
| Like the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers, the floods of the Nile... | brought rich soil when it flooded |
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