Civ 1 test 1
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- What does agriculture need to survive?
- Water
- Definition of history
- Scholarly discipline
- what is a historian?
- a scholar who reconstructs the past to make it relevant today/ show its impact on todays world
- History Can Be
- Intuitive or imperical
- Intuitive history
- artistic and creative - interpretive thesis always arguable
- Imperical History
- Based on facts (who did what? When? Where?)
- Two types of history
- Pre post modern and Post modern
- Pre Post Modern History
- Speculative "it was this way"
- Pre Post Modern History is...
-
1-Cyclical~what goes around comes around
2-Progressive~history will get better
3-Providincial~Creationism- intelligent design-god acting in history- - Post Modern History
- analytical "perhaps this way"
- Culture
- extrasomatic means of adaption passed on from generation to generation. Parents and society teach children.
- Social
- race,class,gender:men vs women ~ upper class vs lower class
- Civilization
- latin word that refers to a citizen a part of a group
- State
- Organized society distinct geographical border Shared values; concentrated effort
- Law
- Government conduct
- why was agriculture needed?
- "you have to eat every day"
- Prehistory
- Anthropology
- Great Rift Vally
- Humanoid bones 2-4 million years old
- Paleolithic
- Wanderers
- Neolithic Era
- 8,000- 3,000 BCE
- BCE
- before the common/christian Era
- CE
- common era
- Neolithic
- Starting to settle down
- Neolithic Era they began to do what?
- Raise animals Grow grains
- Where did the neolithic people settle?
- By rivers
- What is the main food source of the people?
- Grain
- Mesopotamia
- "The land between the rivers"
- What two rivers is Mesopotamia located between?
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Mesopotamia is prone to flood True or false?
- True
- How was mesopotamia ruled?
- People were rule oriented and strict
- What is the main river in Egypt?
- The Nile
- Nile river is...
- Steady predictable and fertile
- What is the main river in India?
- Indus
- What two peoples settled on the Indus river?
- Harrapan and Gandas Cultures
- What are the two major rivers in China?
- Yellow and Yangtze
- What crops are raised on the banks of the yellow river?
- Millet and Wheat
- What crops are raised on the Yangtze river?
- Rice
- The yellow river is...
- in northern china, flat and cool, unpredictable
- The Yangtze river is...
- in central china, warmer
- Origin and evolution of writing
- Pictographs~Ideograms~Phonetic~Cuniform
- Cuniform is...
- Wedge shaped
- Epic of Gilgamesh has...
- Cultural values
- Ninkasaki
- Goddess of beer
- Ninkasaki's hymn
- holds recipie for beer
- What did fritz maytag do?
- began anchor brewing company(1990) came up with nikasaki beer
- What did the government give people grant money for?
- to answer the question which came first beer or bread?
- What are the benifits of fermentation?
-
Decreased levels of toxins(acids)
Increases level of B vitamins
Increased level of protiens - What are the percentages of protiens nad beer?
- 8-20% in beer and only 3% in bread
- What is alchohol?
- Aspetic(Kills germs)
- Gilgamesh
- A whole collection of myths
- Myth
- pre scientific explanation
- What is the theory on Utnapishtam?
- He is noah
- A Myth is a story with a what?
- Moral
- Enlil
- God that created the great flood
- Anthropomorphic
- man like shape or personality (had the same personality as a human but never died)
- Gilgamesh's destiny is...
- That his memory will live forever not him
- Mina =
- 60 sheckles
- Womens role...
- prepared food and owned taverns
- Treason was not accepted even when what?
- Drunk
- Man can divorce woman but
- Woman cant divorce man
- an eye for an eye but...
- only between equals
- Surplus agriculture is the key to what?
- diversity and organization
- Development of sophisticated skills...
- such as building writing and the arts
- Pictograph
- picture that represents a word
- Cuniform
- wedge shaped earliest form of somatic writing ~ makes a transition from ideogram to phonetic
- Phonetic
- sign represents a sound
- ideogram
- Sign that represents an idea
- Star
- always symbolizes a god or godess
- Indo
- European Migrations
- Harrapan Civilization
- c. 2300-1900 BCE
- Vedic Age
- C. 1500-500 BCE
- 4 varna
-
Brahmin
Kshatriya
Valsha
Shudra - Harrapan Civilization is pre....
- Aryan
- Mohenjo-Daro
- 500,000 sq. miles
- Uniform sized bricks show...
- order, mass production
- Cities had what?
-
Underground sewers
Toilets
Grainery - Swastica
- "Good Fortune"
- Tree & fire
- Worshiped
- Fire stood for
- Sacrifice
- Water stood for
- Cleansing
- Vedas
- Collection of indian hymns, ritual texts and philisophical treatises
- Rig Veda
- Earliest of the vedas Aryan tales of glorius military campaigns
- 13 chapters of the Mahabharata is called
- the Bhagavad-Gita (Gita)
- Upanishads transitional text fom Branminism to
- Hinduism
- Iron
- C. 1000 BCE
- Iron supplys warriors with
- superiority over bronze weapons
- Gita
- War between two families
- Arjunals
- Charioteeris
- Mouth
- Brahmin~Priests and scribes
- Varna
- Color
- Arms
- Kshariya~Warriors
- Thighs
- Vaisha~Merchants
- Feet
- Shudra~farmers
- Caste
- vocation
- dasa
- black~the outcasts
- Aryan
- Ireland Iran "Noble ones" ~ warriors
- World Spirit
-
Brahman
Vishnu
Shiva
Krishna - Axial Age India
- c. 500 BCE
- Brahmanism reforms into Hinduism as a reaction to ______
- Buhdism and Jainism
- Hinduism
- the major relegion in india today
- Buddhism
- Siddhartha Guatamo
- Janiam
- Magavira
- Axial Age turned away from
- mythological to more rational ones
- Pyramids built in
- the old kingdom period 2660-1800 BCE
- New Kingdom
- 1570- 1075 BCE
- New kingdom was the
- age of the empire
- Indo-European
- Ireland to india
- Hebrew
- God acts in human affairs
- Hapira
- Nomads, wanderes, not citified
- Abraham
- Compared to Ur- rejected polytheism
- Abraham was
- the worlds first monotheist
- Abraham had a covenant with God...
- "Circumsize your son and i will make you father of many nations"