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Ancient civ. 1-9wks
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Noahs ark model of human evolution postulates that all humans came from only those who survied the biblical flood. | False |
| The dating term A.D. Refers to after death, the death of Lord Jesus Christ. | False, |
| The Cadelabra model of human evolution postulates that Homo sapien emigrated from africa to europe and asia? | False, homo erectus emigrated |
| Moodle is the class website that has e-text, made by the publisher, and has practice quizzes for students. | False |
| Myhistory lab is the class website that has discussion blogs, class documents, and practices quizzes made by mr. Malouf. | False |
| Ochre is a natural mineral based pigment dye used by prehistoric artists to provide reds, browns, or yellows. | True |
| Syntax is the arrangement of words or phrases to form well formed sentences in a language. | True |
| The enuma elish is a creation myth from acient mesopotamia, affirming the authority of the priests. | True |
| The genesis account is a creation myth showing that humans are inferior to many other gods. | False |
| What does transformation mean in reference to note taking? | Change the information from one format to another make a visual ffrom words. |
| Marginal notes might be used to accomplish all of the following when activiely reading a homework assignment in preparation for the next class except.... | Including the teachers class notes into home notes |
| In the time frame of written history prior to the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but not including pre-history. | BC and BCD |
| Dating term used most for paleontogly, very ancient pre-historic finds dated by scientific dating methods. | CE |
| What is an example of a visualization/transformation | Picture symbols, venn diagram, timeline w/symbols |
| In order to reinforce the existing paradigm for human evolution, scientists searvh for all of the following? | Geological evidence that shortens the prehistoric timeline. |
| The changes in toolkit reading was a change over time reading. If youare assigned to create a visual timeline of the reading, what aresome good steps to take in order to complete the task. | Find the main idea and summarize in your own words, and make a venn diagram of the main idea. |
| Assiduous | Sowing great care and perseverance |
| Donald johansen | Researcher who discovered "lucy" in ethiopia in 1974 |
| Bipedalism | Using only two legs for walking |
| Paleoanthropology | The study of the earliest humans and their enviroments |
| Mary leaky | Reacher who found evidence of hominid bipedalism in laetoli, tanzania in 1978 |
| Candelabra model | Model that suggests that homo erectue emigrated from africa and evolved into homo sapien separetely in africa, asia and europe |
| Australopithecus afarensis | Ape-man hominid species reprrsenting the beginning of bipedalism |
| Homo sapien | Represents the earliest evidence of religion spiritual man neanderthal |
| Homo habilis | Represents the beginnings of tool making |
| Homo sapien sapien | Modern humans, we the people, us |
| Homo erectus | This is the species that went worldwide showing that more advanced homminids emigrated from africa and migrated globally |
| Mr. Malouf is which type of hominid? | Homo sapien sapien |
| Agriculture greatly increased the quantity and quality of the food supply. | True |
| Villagers become skilled at grinding and polishing the stone tools, and new ear is called the Neolithic or New Stone Age | True |
| Slash and burn agriculture And pollen samples | Show distinct alternating periods of cultivation and fallow. |
| Pottery is a useful means of storage for | Sedentary people |
| Egalitarian | Beleif in the principal That all people are equal and have equal oppuntinites |
| Hierarchical | Arranged in order of rank, society, king quenn etc. |
| Sedentary people used | Pottery is a useful means of stroage |
| Systematic practice of agriculture | People became less nomadic and begain to stettle down, rather than hunting for food they begain farming. |
| To survive sedentsry agriculte became a necessity | True |
| In addition to increasing agricultural productivity, villages facilited an increase in activities of all kinds. | True |
| The science that deals with the extraction of metal | Metallurgy |
| The agricultural villages opened new possibiliities for economic, social, political and artistic creativity. | True |
| The first agricultural villages that archaeologist have discovered date to about 10,000 b.c.e., wherer are they located? | Fertile crescent |
| Basic 1st crops | Wild grasses, wheat and barley |
| The natufians | Sedentary gathers and cultivation |
| The natufians were growing fully domesticated cereals | True |
| Domestication | Adaptation To Intimate association with human beings |
| The era in which villages took form is usually called | Neolithic Or new stone age |
| Neolithic or new stone age are named for its tolls rather than its crops | True |
| Obsidian | A kind of volcanic glass with very sharp edges |
| Innnovation | The explanation that similar cultural traits, techniques, or objects found amoung different groups of people were invented independently rather than spread from one group to another |
| Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traights from one culture to another |
| Due to the technological breakthroughs of skills in metallurgy and craftmanship in copper, tin and alloys this era is knows as? | The bronze age |
| As society and ecomomy became more complex new class of hierarchies emerged | True |
| With growth of the city the early state was also born, with its specialized organization, centralized rule, and powerful armies. | True |
| TO keep track of business transactions and administration orders, rituals of priest, legends of gods and histories of the city, this was developed? | Record-keeping |
| Quipu | Knots made in special lengths of string |
| In Sumer, which is geographicaly equivalent to todays Iraq, created the worlds first? | Writing system |
| Mesopotamia, literally "Between the rivers" Is between the tigris and what other river? | Euphrates |
| The region between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is approximately what modern city? | Iraq |
| The Sumerians were not the first to inhabit the land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers. | True |
| Archaeological excavations of pottery show ealier presence in Mesopotamia of the Ubaidians. | True |
| The Ubaidians, a people who spoke the what language? | Semitic |
| Supplanting | To supersede another espicially by force or treachery |
| The Sumerians lived in warring city-states Kish, Uruk, Ur, Nippur, Lagash,Umma and dozens of smaller ones. Which warring city-states did Abraham live? | Ur |
| Each city-state included a central city with a temple and the agricultural region surrounding it. | True |
| With the city-states constantly at war with each other, their leaders began to think in terms of conquering others to create large empires. | True |
| "king of Sumer and Akkad" | Sargon |
| Sargon was the first to unite the city-states under a single, power ruler. | True |
| King of "old babylonia" | Hammurabi |
| Over time the larger citites reached populations of 35,000-40,000 | True |
| Blood relatives | born in the same family |
| civic identity | shared space |
| Zigguarts | A temple tower of ancient mesopotamia, constructed of square of rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually with a shrine on top built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky |
| City of Lagash | The chief temple, provided daily food and drink |
| goddess of fertility | Inanna |
| Artisans crafted works of art in terra cotta, copper, clay and colors surpassing village standards in their beauty and technical skill. | True |
| Who established an accurate calendar based on lunar months that enabled them to predict the onset of seasons and to prepare properly for each years planting and harvesting. | Astronomers |
| created and designed and played the lyre and composed and chanted songs, often dedicated to the gods | Musicians |
| Who invented the first wheels, potters wheel for ceramics and wagon wheels for transportation | Sumerians |
| Sumerian traders carried merchandise by land, river and sea, n the worlds first wheeled carts and sailboats as well as by donkey caravan. | True |
| The Sumerians invented writing, thereby altering human history | True |
| Pictograms | picture representations of the objects of their writings |
| Cuneiform | Writing systems,key features of the pictures in wedge-shaped signs from the pictograms. |
| Ideograms | A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a things is represented rather than its name. |
| this languages uses ideograms | Chinese |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh, is the most famous of the remaining literature, weaves together a series of talles about the helo Gilgamesh | True |
| Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the deeds of a larger-than-life hero. The Sumerian epic introduces the first hero in written literature | True |
| The gift of the Nile | Egypt |
| Egypt has been called the gift of the Nile because outside of the valley of that great river the country is a desert. | True |
| The river provides natural irrigation along its banks and invites further man-made, irrigation to extend its waters to the east and west. | True |
| The vital significance of the Nile appears in a 4,000year old Egyptian Poem | True |
| Hieroglyps | The characters in a writing system based on the use of pictograms or ideograms. |
| The desert flanking the Nile valley protected Egypt from external invasion from the east and west. | True |
| Flanking | to be situated on both sides of |
| Monumental structures, like pyramids and Sphinx, temples and pharaohs tombs make clear the wealth, skills and organizational capacity of ancient Egypt. | True |
| The Nile has washed away many ancient structures and eroded their foundations, so we know less about the physical form of Egypt's ancient cities than about those of Mesophtamia. | True |
| Egypt and lower or northern Eqypt derived their names from the flow of the Nile River. | True |
| The River rises south of Egypt and flows north to the Mediterranean Sea. | True |
| To the west of the Nile, the Sahara was becoming drier and some of its inhabitants many have moved to the Nile valley, brining with them more advanced methods of cultivation. | True |
| By 3600 b.c.e. a string of villages lined the Nile River, at intervals of every 20 miles. | True |
| The villages, in Egypt, economies were based on what agriculture? | Cereal |
| Gradually, the population increased along the Nile River and the first walled towns appeared in the upper Nile at Nagada and Hierakonpolis | True |
| Hieroglyphs | Egyptians developed their own script based on tiny pictographs, this word is based on the Greek word for "sacred carvings" |
| Hieratic | shorthand transcriptions of hierogllyphs |
| nomes | administrative districts suggesting the geographical organization of the Egyptian state and king list |
| Paintings of ancient Egyptians show them sometimes pales in color, sometimes black, very often red, perhaps reflecting their mixed ethnicity. | true |
| As Egypt became unified, the kings grew more powerful, finally gaining a positions as gods, who lived on earth are were responsible for maintaining the ma'at, justice and order. | True |
| They were responsible for keeping the forces of nature balanced and for inviting the annual flooding of the Nile River that made Egyptian agriculture possible | The kings |
| Early Dynastic period | A more or less unified artistic style in both pottery and architecture after that time mirrors the unification of Egyptian politics |
| Unification | union |
| Horus | the patron god of the Egyptian kings, the first Egyptian god to be worshiped nationally. |
| Mastabas | tombs of the most prominent Egyptians |
| Nagada II | In the early dynastic Egypt, The consolidation of villages into towns and towns into cites |
| What precipitated the population growth, occupational specialization and social hierarchy, along the upper Nile? | introducing the irrigation system |
| Hierakonpolis | This city housed a temple and pro minent tombs as well as a rulers palace. |
| A selection from these mortuary texts has been collected by modern scholars, a segment of these texts present the "negative confession" of a deceased person in the court of judgment of the dead protesting his innocence of evil and crime. | The Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| KIng Djoser's architect | Imhotep |
| Imhotep elaborated the rather simple mastaba into a series of stepped stone slabs, one on top of the next, built to house the king's remains at death. | True |
| Mastaba | an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and a flat roof. |
| The Middle Kingdom ended in part because the Nubians drove out their Egyptian conquerors, but more importantly because of the of the Hykos. | True |
| Hykos | Princes of the foreign lands who spoke Semitic language and probably came from the north and east of the sinai desert |
| Nubians | a Nubian or black slave, a member of any of the various peoples inhabiting Naubia |
| Aten | god of the solar disk or sun |
| King Amenhotep IV | known as Akhenaten, ruler owed its entire existence to the idiosyncratic vision of one ruler, the sun. |
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