Chapter 1-2

Question 1

An arc of rich farmland in SW Asia, between Persian gulf and Mediterranean Sea

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent

Question 2

word meaning, “land between the rivers.”

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

A city and the surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit

Answer 3

City-state

Question 4

Series of rulers from a single family

Answer 4

Dynasty

Question 5

The process where new ideas spread from one place to another

Answer 5

Cultural diffusion

Question 6

The belief in multiple gods

Answer 6

Polytheism

Question 7

A collection of people, nations, and previously independent states under one ruler

Answer 7

Empire

Question 8

Ruled the Babylonian empire in 1792-1750 BC

Answer 8

Hammurabi

Question 9

A broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river

Answer 9

Delta

Question 10

A king of Egypt who supposedly united Upper and lower Egypt

Answer 10

Narmer

Question 11

An Egyptian god-king, they were said to be as splendid as gods of the heavens

Answer 11

Pharaoh

Question 12

A type of gov’t that is ruled by a religious authority

Answer 12

Theocracy

Question 13

The tomb for kings; an immense structure

Answer 13

Pyramid

Question 14

The way royal and elite Egyptian bodies were preserved

Answer 14

Mummification

Question 15

The writing system Egyptians used; comes from Greek, “Sacred carving.”

Answer 15

Hieroglyphics

Question 16

A paperlike sheet that the Egyptians used to write on after stone.

Answer 16

Papyrus

Question 17

Highly mobile people who moved from place to place

Answer 17

Nomads

Question 18

Nomatic groups whose food supply depends on hunting/gathering

Answer 18

Hunter-gatherers

Question 19

Beginning of farming

Answer 19

Neolithic Revolution

Question 20

Cutting trees/greenery and burned them to create a field

Answer 20

Slash-and-burn farming

Question 21

Taming of animals

Answer 21

Domestication

Question 22

Human made objects; tools and jewlery

Answer 22

Artifacts

Question 23

A people’s unique way of life

Answer 23

Culture

Question 24

Humans or creatures that walk upright

Answer 24

Hominids

Question 25

The old stone age

Answer 25

Paleolithic Age

Question 26

The new stone age

Answer 26

Neolithic Age

Question 27

Ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs

Answer 27

Technology

Question 28

“Wise men” species name for humans

Answer 28

Homo sapiens

Question 29

Fully modern humans; competed with Neanderthals

Answer 29

Cro-Magnons

Question 30

First humanlike creature to walk upright

Answer 30

Australopithecines

Question 31

First to make stone tools

Answer 31

Homo Habilis

Question 32

“Upright man”; used intelegence to develop technology

Answer 32

Homo erectus

Question 33

Thick, powerfully built peoples

Answer 33

Neanderthals

Question 34

family of fossil-hunters

Answer 34

The Leakeys

Question 35

A complex structure with five major characteristics

Answer 35

Civilization