Finals

Question 1

fWhere is Egypt located?

Answer 1

Northeastern corner of Africa

Question 2

What did Herodotus call Egypt?

Answer 2

The gift of Nile

Question 3

What is the heartland of Egypt?

Answer 3

Nile River Valley and Delta

Question 4

What is the Egyptian currency called

Answer 4

Egyptian Pound

Question 5

What is the religion of Egyptians

Answer 5

Polytheistic

Question 6

What is the dominating religion of Egyptians

Answer 6

Muslim

Question 7

What is the official language of Egypt

Answer 7

Arabic

Question 8

What was the most important crop to Egyptians

Answer 8

Grain

Question 9

What are the three seasons in ancient Egyptian farming?

Answer 9

Akhet, Peret, Shemu

Question 10

What does Akhet, Peret, and Shemu mean and when do they occur?

Answer 10

Akhet - The Inundation (June-Sept)
Peret - The Growing Season (Oct-Feb)
Shemu - The Harvesting Season (March-May)

Question 11

What does Akhet mean and when do they occur?

Answer 11

The Inundation (June-Sept)

Question 12

What does Peret mean and when does it occur?

Answer 12

The Growing Season (Oct-Feb)

Question 13

What does Shemu mean and when does it occur?

Answer 13

The Harvesting Season (March-May)

Question 14

This is a machine Egyptians used to move water from canals

Answer 14

Shaduf

Question 15

What animals did the Egyptians keep?

Answer 15

Cattle, goats, pigs, ducks, cows, geese

Question 16

True or false: The pharaoh got the rich peasants to do the farm work on the rich lands

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What did the Egyptians bind into the bandages to treat inflammation?

Answer 17

Willow leaves

Question 18

Enumerate the hieroglyphic numbers

Answer 18

1-9 : stroke
10 : inverted u/hobble for cattle
100 : coil of rope
1000 : lotus plant
10, 000: finger
100, 000: frog
1, 000, 000: a god raising his arms above his head

Question 19

What is a curved blade used for cutting and harvesting grain, such as wheat and barley

Answer 19

Sickle

Question 20

A long balancing pole with a weight on one end and a bucket on the other

Answer 20

Shadoof

Question 21

True or false: The Egyptians invented medical surgery

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The Egyptians combined soot with a lead mineral called __ to create a black ointment known as __. (Egyptian makeup)

Answer 22

Galena; kohl

Question 23

What is the North and South of Egypt called?

Answer 23

Memphis and Thebes

Question 24

What did the ancient Egyptians use to make black ink?

Answer 24

Bee wax, soot, vegetable gum

Question 25

What does meso mean

Answer 25

middle

Question 26

Mesoamerica comprise of what modern-day countries?

Answer 26

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica

Question 27

They believed that the will and actions of the Gods could be read in stars, moon, and planets

Answer 27

Mayans

Question 28

True or false: The Mayans believed in the geocentric model

Answer 28

True

Question 29

What did Mayans associate Venus with?

Answer 29

War

Question 30

What temple is designed to observe equinoxes

Answer 30

Chichen Itza

Question 31

What are the three calendars of the Mayan's

Answer 31

Haab (Solar Calendar), Tzolkin (Divine Calendar), Long count calendar

Question 32

What is the haab calendar for and how many days and months does it have?

Answer 32

Agricultural planning; 365 days, divided into 18 months of 20 days

Question 33

What do you call the one month that only has 5 days in the Haab Calendar

Answer 33

Wayeb

Question 34

What is the Tzolkin calendar for and how many months and days does it have?

Answer 34

Religious rituals and seeking answers for the future; 260 days with 20 months of 13 days

Question 35

What is the long count calendar also known as?

Answer 35

Universal Cycle

Question 36

What are the five cycles of the long count calendar?

Answer 36

Baktun (144, 000), Katun(72, 600), Tun (360), Uinal (20), Kin (1)

Question 37

The long count calendar starts at?

Answer 37

Dec 22, 2012

Question 38

What is the religion and culture of Mayans?

Answer 38

Polytheistic

Question 39

True or false: Mayans made the concept of zero

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Who were sent by the Sun God Inti to find a suitable place to build an empire

Answer 40

Mana Occlo and Manco Capac

Question 41

What is the special rod that Mana Occlo and Manco Capac carried?

Answer 41

Tapac-Yauri

Question 42

The 328-day calendar of Inca's was used for what?

Answer 42

To mark all the festivals

Question 43

What is the system where all people worked for the government from once they turn 15 and until they turn 50

Answer 43

Mita System

Question 44

What is the capital of Inca

Answer 44

Machu Picchu (a sacred site for religious purposes)

Question 45

What are the three types of doctors that Inca's had?

Answer 45

Wattuk, Hanpeo, Paqo

Question 46

What does the Wattuk do?

Answer 46

finds the origin of the diseases

Question 47

What does the Hanpeo do?

Answer 47

cures the patient using herbs and minerals

Question 48

What does the Paqo do?

Answer 48

treats the soul

Question 49

Who are the indigenious people of Mexico and Central America

Answer 49

The Mayans

Question 50

How many days does it take Venus to revolve around the sun?

Answer 50

584 or 583.92

Question 51

Who is the Mayan sun god

Answer 51

Kinich Ahau

Question 52

What is the name given by the Mayan to the underworld

Answer 52

Xibalba

Question 53

This is the astronomical event when the sun crosses the equator and day and night and everywhere on earth are approximately of equal length

Answer 53

Equinoxes

Question 54

Where is the Chichen Itza situated at?

Answer 54

Mexico

Question 55

What put an end to the Mayan cities?

Answer 55

Spanish invasion in the 16th century

Question 56

What is the value of a shell in Mayan numbering system?

Answer 56

Zero

Question 57

This is a pyramid in the Lost World Complex at Tikal which faces three other temples

Answer 57

The Great Pyramid

Question 58

What did pok-a-tok represent

Answer 58

life over death, war, hunting

Question 59

What is the demise of the Incas?

Answer 59

War, disruption of their trade routes, climate change and deforestation

Question 60

What is the fall of the Inca empire?

Answer 60

Spread of disease from spaniards (influenza, typhus, diphtheria, chicken pox, measles

Question 61

What are the main causes of death among the Inca popluation

Answer 61

Influenza and smallpox

Question 62

What is the staple crop of Mayans?

Answer 62

Maize

Question 63

True or false: According to te laws of Mayans, health was the result of living according to the laws while the illness was the result of the disobedience of those laws

Answer 63

True

Question 64

What are red herbal medicines for?

Answer 64

Blood disorders and burns

Question 65

What is blue herbal medicine for

Answer 65

Neural seditives

Question 66

What is the yellow herbal medicine for

Answer 66

Diseases of the liver and spleen

Question 67

Where is the administrative and military center of Inca located at?

Answer 67

Cuzco in Peru

Question 68

aWho is Mama Occlo?

Answer 68

sister of manco capac, the daughter of the moon

Question 69

Where did tapac yauri sink?

Answer 69

Pacaritambo cave

Question 70

Who is the sun of Manco Capac an Mama Occlo

Answer 70

Sinchi Roca

Question 71

Where is the 328 lunar calendar of inca's based?

Answer 71

phases of the moon

Question 72

How did the incas record numerical info?

Answer 72

Quipu

Question 73

What is an ancient accounting tool for bookkeeping?

Answer 73

Quipu (knot)

Question 74

What are the mail persons of INca called

Answer 74

Chasquiz

Question 75

What does Machu Picchu mean

Answer 75

Old Peak

Question 76

When was the Machu Picchu discovered?

Answer 76

Discovered by Hiram Bingham III in 1911

Question 77

who is the spanish conquistador who led the conquest of peru

Answer 77

francisco pizarro