Chapter One

Question 1

Types of Societies
Occupying at least 90 percent of human history

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Hunting and Gathering

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Types of Societies
Simple gardening, supplementary to hunting and gathering

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Horticultural

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The domestication of animals in a semi-nomadic lifestyle

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Pastoral

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Societies whose economics are based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland

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Agricultural

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A belief that all objects, whether animate, or inanimate, such as animals, trees, and rocks, possess an impersonal supernatural power

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Animatism

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Coined Money

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Specie

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The belief in worship of more than one god

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Polytheism

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By around 3000 BC, the sumerians had established 12 independent “city-states” in southern Mesopotamia, in a region called the

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Fertile Crescent

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Sumerian cities- significantly recurring problem, that of the spread disease

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Contaminated water

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Never really developed

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A system for waste disposal

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Devastating floods

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Sophisticated Irrigation System

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Necessitated the creation of a centralized government

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The need to organize workers for construction and maintenance of the canals

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Kings supreme responsibility was to

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ensure justice

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Main structure in every city was the temple to the gods called a

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Ziggurat

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Metallurgy
Constant raiding which could conclude with the virtual extermination of the losing side

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Bronze Age

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3 main reasons for slavery

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Prisoners of war
Voluntarily selling themselves (escape starvation or satisfy debts)
Born a slave

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In 3500 BC the Sumerians invented a form of writing called

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Cuneiform

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Worship of more than one god

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Polytheistic

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The more important the god

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The more power over humans

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Sumerians built the ziggurats

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to pacify the gods thus avoiding divine punishment

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Sumer’s greatest contribution to Western Civilization

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Invention of a Written Language

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The Assyrians first major impact on Western Civilization

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The development of long distance trade

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The Babylonians major impact on Western Civilization

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Established written laws known to the people

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Around 1600 BC the Canaanites invented an

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alphabet

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It's Western and Eastern borders are protected by the deserts It was also a source of tremendous wealth with

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large deposits of metal ores

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The river produced/left _________ that enriched the soil and diluted harmful mineral salts

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silt deposits

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A crucial crop secured Egypt's diplomatic relationships with other countries, and contributed to economic stability

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Wheat

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Around 3000 BC the Egyptians developed their own form of writing called

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Hieroglyphics

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creates the first recorded Empire in Western Civilization

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Sargon the Great

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Egyptian art clearly illustrates how the Egyptians valued

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order and predictablity

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Mehes made his royal capital

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Memphis

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Great Pyramids were built not by slave labor but by

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Free Egyptian laborers

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The capital city of the Middle Kingdom

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Thebes

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Second Intermediate Period

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Hyksos

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The Hyksos brought several items that significantly influence the Egyptians in the New Kingdom period

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Bronze making technologies Humpbacked cattle Composite bow Horse drawn chariot

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Especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian Polytheism

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Akhenaten

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Regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom/ Egyptian Empire

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Ramses II (The Great)

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Ancient worlds largest chariot battle

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Battle of Kadesh

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The Ptolemy's made their royal capital at

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Alexandria

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Egyptian and Sumerian Life Compare

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Polytheistic

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Egyptian and Sumerian Life Contrast

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Sumerians built the ziggurats to pacify the gods thus avoiding divine punishment The pyramids were constructed as burial complexes at which Egyptians could worship Egypt’s god-kings after they die

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Egyptian and Sumerian Life Contrast

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Sumerians built the ziggurats to pacify the gods thus avoiding divine punishment The pyramids were constructed as burial complexes at which Egyptians could worship Egypt’s god-kings after they die