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wh world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| describe 5 parts of civilization | government, writing, calendar, division of labor, and advanced skills |
| different jobs and skills | division of labor |
| name the 3 prehistoric people | paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic |
| "old stone age" | paleolithic |
| 2 million- 10,000BC | paleolithic |
| more advanced; 10,000BC-6,000BC | mesolithic |
| 6,000-3,000BC | neolithic |
| means middle of land | mediteranean |
| nickname for Egypt | "Gift of the Nile" |
| dirt that overflows and has important fertilizers and natural irrigation | silt |
| name 2 natural resouces the Egyptians used | 1. clay 2. limestonw(pyramids) |
| name some achivements for neanderthal | clothing, fire, cooking, buried dead |
| lived in caves, nomadic(food), hunt and ate animals | Paleolithic |
| 100,000BC, advancing civilization | neanderthal |
| 30,000BC invented the spear | Cro Magnon |
| first to call homo sapiens; cave painters | cro magnon |
| domesticatic animals(for protection), canoes, fish hooks | mesolithic |
| agriculture and seeds | neolithic revolution |
| government developed during this time | new stone age[neolithic] |
| time where there was no government | state of nature |
| egypt is found on_____ | africa |
| runs through the mediteranean sea | nile river |
| explain the "gift of the nile" | the nile overflows in the spring and it has fresh water |
| name 2 advantages of Egypt | natural protection and natural boundaries |
| advantage of the nile | trade |
| egyptians made this to know when the river was going to overflow in the spring | calendar |
| egytians were the first to make up this | year |
| 3,000BC people living near the nile came up with this | writing |
| a type of writing | hyroglithics |
| sacred writing | hyroglithics |
| the alphabet consists of how many symbols and how many letters | 600 and 22 |
| letters were used for | sound |
| 1799 this was a famous hyroglithic found | rosetta stone |
| rosetta stone had what 3 types of cultures in it | greek, hebrew, and egytians |
| king mines united all the people in the nile to his | dynasty |
| what is a dynasty | when the king dies someone from his family takes his place |
| the egyptians belived who picked the family for the dynasty | the gods |
| wrap Pharohs in stuff so they arent buried with the other people | mommification |
| place where they put the dead Pharohs | pyramids |
| queen ruling the same time as Tutmose III great efforts to beautify things like temples | Hatshepsut |
| step son of Hatsheput interested in power, conquered people who werent Egyptians | Tutmose III |
| very religios man believed in Aton(sun god) changed his name because he worshiped aton | akhenaton |
| believe in many gods | polythesitic |
| only worship one god | monothesitic |
| Egyptians went back to polythesitc after ______died | akhenaton |
| a group of archeologist found his tomb exactly the same back in the day | Tutankhamen |
| tourist go to this and it is 450 feet high 800 feet on sides; has 2 million blocks on them | Giza |
| started like a stair pyramid | mastha |
| put to work to build pyramids | peasants |
| giza was one of ______________ | 7 wonders of the ancient world |
| sun god | aton |
| moon god | amon |
| god of the Nile and dead | osiris |
| body is consumed by the gods | eater of the dead |
| land between the rivers | Iraq |
| first mesopotania civilization that came into existence | sumerians |
| government they used each city had its own form of government, normally weak usually get conquered | city-states |
| 600 symbols sumerians type of writing | cuneiform |
| temple built by sumerians an achievement | Ziggurats |
| how to build things | architecture |
| came up with seconds and minutes | sumarian |
| didnt believe there was an after life and no judgement | sumarian religion |
| sumarian people were conquered by ______ only lasted 100 years | Akkadains |
| known for the great contribution for law; civilizations first code of law went alongs way for modern law | hammurabi |
| whatever leader wants people to do | arbitrary law |
| where you went after you died | "land of no return" |
| fierce like war people made iron weapons; restless | hitlites |
| adopted hammurabi's code of law | hitlites |
| did the person mean for the crime to happen | premeditation |
| cruelest of the people to conquer mesopotania; all about war | assyrians |
| flooded the city of bagdad to destroy all the people and first to have a cavalry | assyrians |
| paid to be in the army | mercenaries |
| new capitol city with walls | ninevah |
| rebuilt the city of babylon and moved the capitol back | king nebuchadnezzar |
| made the "hanging gardens" | king nebuchadnezzar |
| hanging gardens is one of the__________ | seven wonders of the ancient world |
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