History Ch. 1
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- False
- In the Paleolithic Age, hunter-gatherers could support large populations and elaborate societies.
- Neolithic
- the new stone age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals
- has sustained a distinctive Jewish culture to our own day.
- Define "monotheism"
- culture
- the people who run things(religion, clothes)
- Phoenicians
- A smaller regional culture called the _______ devised a greatly simplified alphabet with 22 letters around 1300 B.C.E.; this is in turn was the ancestor of the Greek and Latin alphabets.
- False
- Having started in 3500 B.C.E., civilization developed initially in four centers--the Middle East, Egypt, North America, and northwestern Japan.
- cuneiform
- Most civilizations developed writing, starting with the emergence of ________ in the Middle East around 3500 B.C.E.
- Harrappa/Mohenjo Darjo
- The largest city to develop along the Indus River was __________.
- True
- Most early civilizations were characterized by the existence of agriculture, significant cities, writing systems, and more formal states.
- False
- The first civilization developed along the bank of the Nile River.
- Shang
- By about 1500 B.C.E., a line of kings called the ________ ruled over the Hwang-Ho river-valley civilization.
- hunting and gathering
- means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social organization
- True
- One sign of the revolutionary quality of agriculture as a system of production was the very slowness of its spread.
- False
- Sumerian political structures stressed a loosely organized empire, ruled by a queen who claimed divine authority.
- development of agriculture
- What was the Neolithic revolution?
- Hammurabi
- It was under the Babylonian rule that King _______ introduced the most famous early code of law.