Chapter 1 test

Question 1

men and women of the old Stone Age

Answer 1

nomad

Question 2

depends on hunting and collecting plant food

Answer 2

hunter-gatherer

Question 3

beginning of farming

Answer 3

neolithic revolution

Question 4

cut trees and grasses and burned them to clear a field

Answer 4

slash and burn farming

Question 5

taming of animals

Answer 5

domestication

Question 6

the development of skills in a specific kind of work

Answer 6

specilization

Question 7

skilled workers who make goods by hand

Answer 7

artisan

Question 8

a long pattern of organization in a community

Answer 8

institution

Question 9

professional record keepers

Answer 9

scribe

Question 10

Mesopotamian writing system

Answer 10

cuniform

Question 11

time when people used bronze rather than copper and stone

Answer 11

bronze age

Question 12

trading good services without money

Answer 12

barter

Question 13

pyramid shaped monument

Answer 13

ziggurat

Question 14

curved shape and the richness of it’s land

Answer 14

Fertile Crescent

Question 15

land between rivers

Answer 15

Mesopotamia

Question 16

each city and the surrounding land it controlled

Answer 16

city-state

Question 17

a series of rulers from a single family

Answer 17

dynasty

Question 18

this process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another

Answer 18

cultural-diffusion

Question 19

the belief in more than one God

Answer 19

polytheism

Question 20

brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one leader

Answer 20

empire

Question 21

a leader in the Babylonian empire

Answer 21

Hammurabi

Question 22

in the lower region

Answer 22

delta

Question 23

a king

Answer 23

narmer

Question 24

god-king

Answer 24

pharaoh

Question 25

type of government based on religious authority

Answer 25

theocracy

Question 26

the resting place for a king after death

Answer 26

pyramid

Question 27

royal and elite Egyptians bodies were preserved

Answer 27

mummification

Question 28

Egyptian writing system

Answer 28

hieroglyphics

Question 29

a better writing system

Answer 29

papyrus

Question 30

the first empire builders

Answer 30

Babylonian empire, Hammurabi's code

Question 31

human made object

Answer 31

artifact

Question 32

peoples unique way of life

Answer 32

culture

Question 33

the first creatures to walk up right

Answer 33

hominid

Question 34

old Stone Age

Answer 34

Paleolithic age

Question 35

ways of applying knowledge to tools

Answer 35

technology

Question 36

modern humans

Answer 36

homo-sapeins

Question 37

why did papa New Guinea not advance as fast

Answer 37

they were very focused on feeding themselves due to there lack of nutrients in there food

Question 38

the main animal in papa New Guinea

Answer 38

pigs