Mesopotamia And Early Humans

Question 1

Pictographs

Answer 1

Paintings on stone

Question 2

Petroglyphs

Answer 2

Carvings in stone

Question 3

When did the Stone Age begin?

Answer 3

2.6 million years ago (3,300) BCE

Question 4

What progressions did trade make?

Answer 4

Spread knowledge and ideas around

Question 5

When was the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 5

35000 years ago

Question 6

What makes a civilization?

Answer 6

Large population
Systems for administering territories
Division of labour
Division of people into economic and social classes

Question 7

What was the Neolithic revolution?

Answer 7

Starts of agriculture
Domestication if animals
Weaving
Beginning of government

Question 8

Australopithecus

Answer 8

3.5 million years ago
Walked in 2 legs scavengers

Question 9

Paranthropus bosei

Answer 9

2 million years ago
Like gorillas
Ate tough vegetation
Not a human ancestor
Could not make shelters

Question 10

Homo habiles

Answer 10

Scavengers
Struggled in hot dry weather
Couldn’t eat tough vegetation
Ate meat
Stone tools

Question 11

Homo ergaster / homo erectus
(before Neanderthals)

Answer 11

Sweat glands
Larger brain
Discovered fire
Erect posture

Question 12

Homo heidelbergenis

Answer 12

500 00 years ago
Used plants got medicine
South Africa
Language
Art

Question 13

Homo Neanderthal

Answer 13

400 000 years ago
Broad noses to cool down
No imagination

Question 14

Homo sapiens
(After homo erectus) 2

Answer 14

Larger brains
Replaced homo erectus

Question 15

Homo sapiens sapiens
(Getting semi civilized)

Answer 15

30,000 years ago
Created sophisticated language
Drew pictures

Question 16

What is an artifact

Answer 16

Something made by humans if cultural or historical significance

Question 17

What is an anthropologist

Answer 17

Someone who studies human civilizations

Question 18

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 18

Eye for an eye
First written code

Question 19

Cuneiform

Answer 19

Writing system from the Middle East
Used in summeria Akkadia

Question 20

Nineveh library

Answer 20

First library
Confit
Conformation of the bibles accuracy

Question 21

What does the term Polytheistic mean

Answer 21

Worshipped more then one god

Question 22

Theocracy

Answer 22

System of government in which priests rule in the name of god

Question 23

Dead Sea scrolls

Answer 23

Earliest known version of the testament

Question 24

Moabite stone

Answer 24

Moabites account for a battle also described in the bible

Question 25

Ziggurat

Answer 25

A place of worship built for the moon Godess manu
Made of mud bricks

Question 26

Dilman

Answer 26

Lush island believed to be garden of eden
Modern day bahrain

Question 27

Epic of Gilgamesh summarization

Answer 27

The hero, Gilgamesh, and his companion Enkidu, go on a quest to find fame and immortality. Along the way the encounter individuals and complete quests that anger the gods

Question 28

Religion in Summeria

Answer 28

The summerians regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to natural and social

Question 29

What are the four gods in summeria?

Answer 29

Enlil- air
Ann- heaven
Enkey- earth
Ninnsag- mother god

Question 30

The wheel

Answer 30

Summerians invented the wheel

Question 31

Bronze to iron

Answer 31

The Iron Age replaced the Bronze Age

Question 32

Astronomy

Answer 32

Made the first calendar
Figured out the length of days and nights
Created astrology by dividing the sky into 12 sections