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Social Studies Exam 1st Flashcards

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Paleolithic times

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Main job was finding food
Never traded found things in their area
Lived in caves and tent like structures

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Neolithic times

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People developed more skills in jobs
Started to trade when they settled in one place
Made shelters more permanent

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Who was chosen to lead in ancient Egypt

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The son

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Why did the civilizations need a government?

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Control rivers
Collect taxes
Build public works projects

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What did governments do?

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Write laws
Collect taxes
Provide food supply
Maintain defense

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Embalming

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Putting someone in a coffin

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Topography

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What the land was like

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Fertile

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Land great for growing crops

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Hieroglyphs

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Ancient writing

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Papyrus

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Fruit

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Pharaoh

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The leader

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Sarcophagus

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Place where they burry the body

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Famine

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A food shortage

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Social classes

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The jobs in the ancient world

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Peasants

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The lowest rank social class

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Scribes

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Writers

Wrote on papyrus

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Nomads

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People who follow their food

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Delta

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Where water spits out into a bigger body of water

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Vizier

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News-taker for the pharaoh

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Why did people settle by the Nile river?

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The land there was fertile

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Jordan river

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Not good for farming

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Abraham

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Judaism

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Siddhartha g

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Buddhism

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Four noble truths

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Buddhism

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Five pillars

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Islam

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Old Testament

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Christianity

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Dharma

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Hinduism

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Brahman

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Hinduism

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Karma

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Hinduism

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Mosque

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Islam

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Synagogue

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Judaism

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Covenant

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Judaism

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Shabbat

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Judaism

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Bible

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Christianity

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Vedas

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Hinduism

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Allah

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Islam

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Trinity

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Christianity

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Reincarnation

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Islam

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Muhammad

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Islam

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Monotheism

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Belief in one god

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Polytheism

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Belief in many gods

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Caste system

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Hinduism

Social classes

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8 fold path

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Buddhism

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Mecca

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The god

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Before the rise of civilization people were nomadic. What does this mean?

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They traveled place to place finding food

45
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How was the behavior of nomadic people regulated?

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Through unwritten customs

46
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How did ancient people progress in their social organization?

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Nomadic clans to villages to city states to empires

47
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The first civilizations developed near what two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Why did the first civilizations develop near river valleys?

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Because annual flooding made the land fertile

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How did the first farmers cope with challenges posted by rivers?

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They learned to control it and use irrigation systems

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What was the name of the area that gave birth to the first civilization?

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Mesopotamia

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What do all civilizations need to survive and grow?

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Resources

52
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What was the first civilization in the ancient world?

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Sumer

53
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What are five key elements of a civilization

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Centralized government
Organized religions 
Arts
Job specialization 
Social classes
Writing
54
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How did Hebrews differ from other ancient people?

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We’re monotheism

55
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What was the most important religious duty of ancient people?

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To keep their god happy

56
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What were temples called?

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Ziggurats

57
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What stood at the top of every ziggurat?

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A shrine

58
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What were the first laws written?

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To regulate behaviors

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How did rulers use public works projects to ensure the city’s supply?

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Build irrigation systems, roads, and bridges

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How did cities change the way people worked?

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People specialized in jobs for the first time.

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Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations

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Surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food

62
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Ranking people according to their jobs led to this

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The development of social classes

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