Global History Final Exam
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- Define Polytheism
- The worshiping of Many Gods
- Define Civilization
- A complex highly organized social order with cities
- Define Cultural Diffusion
- Goods and ideas shared b/t people
- Archeology
- study of early people through physical remains
- Artifact
- Object made by human beings
- Empire
- Group of states or territories controlled by 1 ruler
- Nomad
- person who moves from place to place in order to fulfill their needs
- Artisan
- Skilled craft worker
- Geography
- Study of people, lives, and resources
- Technology
- Tools, and skills people use to meet their basic needs
- Religion, Music, Traditions, Clothing and foods are all aspects of what?
- Culture
- Who was the very first king of the very first Egyptian dynasty who also united upper and lower Egypt?
- Menes
- Silt
- The suspended materials in the water
- Delta
- Triangular "mouth" of a river
- Egypt has a ____+_____ climate (Fill in the blanks)
- Hot + Dry
- What is the Annual Innundation?
- The annual innundation is the yearly flood of the nile river
- What are cataracts, and how many does the Nile River have?
- Cataracts are waterfalls, and the Nile has 6
- What is located on/near one of the 6 cataracts, that was originally built by Ramses II?
- Abu Simbel
- What is the mouth of the Nile?
- The Mediterranian Sea
- Who was Herodotus?
- A greek historian who was considered the 1st historian
- Define Dynasty
- People of one family Ruling
- In relation to Egypt, what is one of the 7 wonders of the world, and when was it built?
- The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, built in 2500b.c
- Who was King Tut?
- A pharoh that died at a very young age. His tomb was the only one found with almost all of its "riches" unrobbed
- What is bureacrat?
- Someone who works for the Government
- What substance would help to preserve a body in ancient Egypt?
- Natron
- When a body was mummified, where were the organs placed?
- In Canopic Jars
- What did the tops of the Canopic jars Represent?
- The tops of the Canopic jars represented gods
- What was the Rosetta Stone?
- The Rosetta stone had things written on it in three diferent languages, Heiroglyphics, demotic, Greek. It was what they used to deciper Heiroglyphics
- Who Deciphered the Rosetta stone?
- Champollion deciphered the rosetta stone
- What are Giant Sheets of ice more commonly known as?
- Glaciers
- Who was Howard Carver?
- Howard carver uncovered King Tut's tomb in 1922
- What does the root "potam" mean?
- The root means River
- Where was Sumer located in relation to Mesopotamia?
- Located towards the southern part of Mesopotamia
- How were writing systems Developed?
- _____ _____, were developed by things at hand
- What is a Monarchy?
- Rule by a King or Queen
- What is a theocracy?
- Rule by the People
- What is Debt Slavery?
- When you dont have enough money, you either sell your self into it, or your children into it, to get out of debt
- What is an Epic?
- A long narative poem
- What was the Previous economy of Egypt, and what was it next?
- Barter economy to a Money Economy
- The sumerians were the first to make what 3 things?
- Wheel/Wagon, the plow, and beer
- Sumerians tok one invention, to another level and made it another invention. What was it first, and what was it improved to be?
- First it was the wagon wheel, then it was improved on to make the pottery wheel
- Ciuneiform was the writing of what place?
- Egypt
- What shape is Ciuneiform, and what is used when writing?
- Wedge shaped, and a stylus is used
- What is bronze made out of??
- Copper and Tin
- What are ziggurats, and what is a description of one?
- Temples, with wide steps and a flat top
- Sumerians were the first to use the__?__
- Arch
- What was the Key Stone?
- The middle stone that keeps an arch together
- Sumerians based the math system on __?__
- 60 minutes
- Sumerians stated that there are _____ degrees in a circle
- 360
- Why does it seem like there is more sky in mesopotamia?
- In mesopotamia, it is more flat so therefore it seems as if there is more sky unlike places where its not as flat
- The sundial was invented by the _____?
- Sumerians
- What does proliferation mean?
- To grow
- What did mesopotamians write on?
- Clay Slabs
- How in one way, was the burning of ancient cities good for archeologists today?
- When cities were burned, the clay slabes were baked, and pices could then be found by modern day archeologists
- What is a law?
- An extremely enforced rule for people to follow
- What is a Rule?
- Something to keep things in order in a city or a town.
- What was the date of Hammurabi?
- 1790b.c
- What is the Code of Hammurabi?
- The first ever set of law codes
- Who was Sargon?
- The First empire builder
- How many laws were contained in the Code of Hammurabi?
- 282 laws
- What do Criminal Laws have to do with?
- Theft, Murder, assult
- What do Civil laws have to do with?
- Inheritance, marriage, divorce, and taxes
- Under Hammurabi's code, what was expected of women?
- Women were expected to live in her husbands home and to be dependent on him
- What is Stenography?
- A shorthand way of writing
- What does "gadded" mean?
- Wondering around from place to place in search of pleasure and entertainment
- King Assurbanipal founded one of the first what?
- Libraries
- For 500 years, the Assyrians terrorized what two places?
- Babylon and the Fertile Crescent region
- What was the capital of the Assyrians?
- Nineveh
- What was the major thing the assirians were known for?
- They had the most efficient and powerfull army. They awere the cruelest of all people
- Who conquered the Assyrians?
- The Chaldeans
- When did the Chaldeans conquer the assyrians?
- In 612 b.c
- What was the capitol of the Hittites?
- Hattusas
- What were the dates of the Hittites?
- 2000- 950 bc
- The Hittites were the first to do what?
- To smelt Iron and make wa pons (otherwise known as the "Iron Age")
- What were lyons always associated with?
- Royalty
- What were the dates of the Phoenecians?
- 1400-400 bc
- The Phoenicians came up with 22 ___?___ in the alphabet
- Consonants
- The phoenicians were the greatest what?
- Sailors/Traders
- The phoenicians came up with the dye called..?
- Tyrian purple