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DiCanio Global 1
Global 1 Midterm Review
Question | Answer |
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Sumerians | The first people to invent writing |
Mesopotamia | the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
Hieroglyphics | picture writing used by Egyptians |
Chariots | horse-led carts |
Archaeologist | a person who finds and studies the things people left behind |
Barter | to buy or trade without using money |
Mummy | a dead body wrapped in strips of cloth |
Hammurabi | created the first code of laws (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) |
Primary | documentation of an event that was written or witnessed by a person who was there (example: a diary) |
Secondary | when a person writes about an event after it happened and when they were not present (a person who writes about an event 1,000 years after it happens) |
Alliance | the Chaldeans and the Medes formed a _____________ and agreed to help each other defeat the Assyrians |
Anthropologist | a person who studies the beginnings and behaviors of people |
One contribution the Egyptians made to the world? | Calendar |
One contribution the Egyptians made to the world? | Geometry |
One reason the discovery of fire was important? | Protection against animals |
One reason the discovery of fire was important? | Food |