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AP World: Unit One
Question | Answer |
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what marked the end of the neolithic era? | metallurgy |
what does "patri" mean? | father |
what was the first human like creature? | australopithecus |
when did the Ice Age end? | around 12000 BCE |
who were the handy humans? | homo habilis |
what was the first domesticated animal? | the dog |
what is the prerequisite for society? | the plow |
who was the first female leader? | Queen Hapsetshut of Egypt |
what was slash and burn? | the burning of current cropland and planting crops in a new land. |
what are the five themes of geography? | relative location, physical characteristics, human/enviorment interaction, movement, and regions |
which civilization invented the wheel? | mesopotamia |
what kind of special architecture did the mesopotamians have? | ziggurats |
what was the epic of gilgamesh? | a great flood story written by the mesopotamians |
why were there invasions in mesopotamia? | there was a lack of natural barriers |
what was the major civilization of mesopotmaia? | sumer |
which civilization lived by the code of hammurabi? | sumer |
could the slaves purchase their freedom in sumer? | yes |
where could women gain power? | sumer |
where is the nile river? | egypt |
what type of religious system did the egyptians belive in? | polytheism |
who wrote the book of the dead? | egyptians |
what country was the kush civilization apart of? | egypt |
what was the advantages of egypt's unique geography? | they were very protected by the sahara desert and the mountains on the other side. |
were the egyptians as urbanas the mesopotamians before them? | no |
what could the egyptians expect from the nile river annually? | flooding |
what kind of egyptian villages engaged in trade? | agricultural |
what could women do in egypt? | manage finances, own property,divorce husbands |
which civilization had their streets lined out in a precise grid? | indus |
what was the size/urbanization of indus? | large and very urbanized |
what were the major cities of indus river valley/pakistan? | harappa and mohenjo daro |
what were the dravidians? | aryands and indus valley people |
what happened to the indus river? | unpredictable flooding |
what was the social structure of pakistan? | relatively egalitarian |
which civilization was the most isolated? | shang |
what isolated shang? | deserts, mountains, and seas. |
who used the oracle bones? | shang |
which country was organized into dynasties? | china |
who had walled cities? | shang |
which civilation was known as the mandate of heaven? | zhou |
what is the mandate of heaven? | a leader's right to claim divine rule if ruled wisely and fairly |
where did most cities begin in china? | alomg the yellow river |
what was the social structure of shang? | stratified |
which men were allowed multiple marriages? | chinese |
who had a preference for sons? | chinese |
what is infantcide? | the killing of one gender of child because of a certainb preferance of the other |
what were the major civilizations of mesoamerica? | olmecs and mayans |
what did the mesoamericans belive in religion wise? | polytheism |
who believed in the god quetzalcoatl? | mesoamericans |
who was the god who would return to rule the world in peace? | quetzalcoatl |
who used pictographs? | mayans |
who discovered the length of a year? | mayans |
who was composed by small city-states? | mesoamerica |
who did not use pack animals? | mesoameriocans |
why was the communication of mesoamericans limited? | geography |
why did a central government not form in mesoamerica? | the rugged terrain of the andes mountains |
who relied on human labor rather than beasts of burden? | mesoamericans |