World History 1900
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- What is the name of the oldest hominid found to date?
- Lucy
- 'Homo habilis' was the first...
- toolmaker
- Whose brains were larger: Neanderthals or Cro-Magnons?
- Neanderthals
- Civilization is defined as having four characteristics. True or false?
- False. It has five.
- The Bronze Age is when people began using what for tools and weapons?
- Bronze, duh!
- What was a pyramid-shaped temple in Ur called?
- Ziggurat
- Cuneiform, used by early scribes for record keeping, was written using reeds. What shape were the reeds?
- Wedge-shaped
- Polytheism is a belief in one or many gods?
- Many gods.
- When rulers pass their powers on to their sons, it creates a...
- Dynasty
- Describe the Fertile Crescent.
- The Fertile Crescent is an arc of rich farmland in Southeast Asia, between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea.
- Mesopotamia lies between what two rivers?
- The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.
- When a number of countries are controlled by one ruler, it is called...
- An empire.
- How many ranks were in the social class of Sumer?
- Four: Kings, wealthy merchants, ordinary Sumerian's, and slaves.
- The Babylonian ruler who created a code of laws is named...
- Hammurabi
- City-states were first controlled by who?
- Priests.
- The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' is a...
- Poem
- Since money hadn't been invented, the first people had to trade to get what they wanted. This type of trading is called...
- Bartering
- Workers skilled at doing one trade are called...
- Artisans
- Mesopotamia is located in what present country?
- Iraq
- Did the Fertile Crescent touch the Mediterranean Sea or the Persian Gulf?
- Both.