CHAPT 1 and 2

Question 0

Kinship

Answer 0

meaning blood relations, civilizations would use this to keep the family in power and have who ever is next in line in the family becomes ruler

Question 1

Hunter Gatherer

Answer 1

someone who hunts and gathers their food everyday, before agriculture, taught the value of hard work, some argued and preferred this more than agriculture.

Question 2

Nomad

Answer 2

a person who doesn’t live or stay in one place and moves around a lot, associated with hunter gatherers because they center themselves around their food source.

Question 3

Foraging Society

Answer 3

this is a society based on hunting and gathering

Question 4

Specialization of Labor

Answer 4

a system that organized work and gave special jobs to special workers who were skilled in doing it

Question 5

Plow

Answer 5

a land tool for farming, used to turn over the soil

Question 6

Textiles

Answer 6

basket weaving and pottery

Question 7

Metallugury

Answer 7

associated with the development of metal tools and how they helped agriculture

Question 8

Patriarchy

Answer 8

most civilizations have this where men are the rulers of the society and women are shadowed out. the man rulers come from a long line of men.

Question 9

Divine Right of Power

Answer 9

some rulers in some civilizations believed that their God has given them a divine right to rule the people

Question 10

Hittites

Answer 10

established an empire in Asia

Question 11

Babylonia

Answer 11

a region in Mesopotamia that was lead by king Hammurabi and established one of the first codes of law

Question 12

Urban Planning

Answer 12

the planning of urban cities states regions etc

Question 13

Ziggurats

Answer 13

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Question 14

Record Keeping

Answer 14

many civilizations did this later in time, their political systems keep record of laws taxes etc. this helped because discipline is enforced throughout the land and the political system functioned better because they have a base and a foundation.

Question 15

Cuneiform

Answer 15

created by the shang this is the number and writing system that only few learned

Question 16

Hierogyplics

Answer 16

created by the Egyptians this was their writing system. (they also had a water system)

Question 17

Phoenician alphabet

Answer 17

created by a Phoenicians who settled in Mesopotamia and created a phonetics system that teaches you how to pronounce letters in certain words. this is a system that we use today

Question 18

Hebrew monotheism

Answer 18

this was something that most civilizations didn’t use but few did and it was a religion with a belief in one God

Question 19

Zoroastrianism

Answer 19

a monotheistic religion that was pre-islam in persia

Question 20

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 20

an epic poem in Mesopotamia (sumerians)

Question 21

Book of the dead

Answer 21

from ancient Egypt, this was used when someone died to describe their story or journey

Question 22

8000 BCE

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Beginning of agriculture

Question 23

3000 BCE

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Beginning of bronze age- and early civilizations

Question 24

1300 BCE

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Iron age

Question 25

6 century BCE

Answer 25

Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi, (beginning of confucianism, buddhism Daoism/Taoism)

Question 26

5th century BCE

Answer 26

Greek golden age- philsophers etc

Question 27

323 BCE

Answer 27

Alex the great

Question 28

221 BCE

Answer 28

Qin unified China

Question 29

184 BCE

Answer 29

Fall of Mauryan dynasty

Question 30

32 CE

Answer 30

Beginning of Christianity

Question 31

180 CE

Answer 31

End of Pax Romama

Question 32

220 CE

Answer 32

End of Han dynasty

Question 33

333 CE

Answer 33

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

Question 34

4th Century CE

Answer 34

Beginning of trade Saharan Trade Routes

Question 35

476 CE

Answer 35

Fall of Rome

Question 36

527 CE

Answer 36

Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire