Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

What were small charmsmeant to protect the bearer from evil that reflects religious practices?

Where were they found?

Answer 1

Amulet

Mesopotamia and Egypt

Question 2

What was the largest and most important city in Mesopotamia that was ruled Amorite King Hammurabi in the 18th century BCE?

Answer 2

Babylon

Question 3

What was the first metal was primarily used in many places around the world?

What was it made of?

What was the age where it was used called?

Answer 3

Bronze

Copper and tin (or arsenic)

Bronze Age

Question 4

What was a small independent state with an urban center surrounded by agricultural land called?

Where were they used?

Answer 4

City-State

Mesopotamia, Archaic and Classical Greece, Phoenicia, early Italy

Question 5

What is an ambiguous term often used to describe more complex societies but is also used to describe a group of people sharing a set of cultural traits?

Answer 5

Civilization

Question 6

What was the change from food gathering to food production?

When was it?

Answer 6

Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution

8000-2000 BCE

Question 7

Define culture.

Answer 7

Socially transmitted patters of action and expression

Question 8

What was the writing system that used wedged symbols to represent words or syllables and was later adapted to represent other languages in Western Asia?

Who used it?

Answer 8

Cuniform

Summarians and Akkadians

Question 9

People who support themselves by hunting animals and gathering edible plants and insects

Answer 9

Foragers

Question 10

Who was the Amorite ruler of Babylon who made a the first code of laws?

When did he rule?

Answer 10

Hammurabi

1792-1750 BCE

Question 11

What was the site of one of the great cities in the Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium BCE that was was located in the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation?

What is the modern country it is in?

Answer 11

Harappa

Pakistan

Question 12

What were Hieroglyphics?

Answer 12

Writing system that used pictorial symbols to represent sounds, syllables, and concepts in Egypt.

Question 13

The study of past events in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices.

Answer 13

History

Question 14

What is the Holocene?

Answer 14

The geologic era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 13,000 years ago

Question 15

The Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created or maintained order in the universe. The divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order.

Answer 15

Ma’at

Question 16

What were Megaliths?

Answer 16

Structures and complexes of very large stones used to ceremonial or religious purposes in Neolithic Times.

Question 17

What was the capital of the old kingdom of Egypt near the head of the Nile River delta.

What was built there to be tombs?

Answer 17

Memphis

The Pyramids

Question 18

What was Mohenjo-Daro?

Answer 18

Largest city in the Indus Valley located in the floodplain of the Indus River.

Question 19

What is a body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances called?

Why was process usually undertaken?

Answer 19

Mummy

It was believed the dead would need it again in the afterlife.

Question 20

What is the Neolithic age?

Answer 20

Neo-new
Lithic-stone

The period in the Stone Age usually associated with the agricultural revolutions.

Question 21

What is the Paleolithic age?

Answer 21

Paleo-old
Lithic-stone

Period in the Stone Age usually associated with the evolution of humans.

Question 22

What is papyrus?

Where did it grow?

What was it used for?

Answer 22

A reed that grows on the Nile

Egypt

Making paper

Question 23

What was the Pharaoh?

Answer 23

Central figure (or Ruler) in ancient Egypt. They were thought to be an earthly manifestation of the gods.
He/she had absolute power

Question 24

What were large triangular stone monuments used as tombs for Kings?

Why were they built?

Answer 24

Pyramids

They thought spectacular burial of the divine ruler would guarantee continued prosperity.

Question 25

Professional position for men who went through training to become literate using early writing systems.

Answer 25

Scribe

Question 26

What is a family of similar language spoken across wester Asia? What languages does it include?

Answer 26

Semitic Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and the most widespread: Arabic.

Question 27

What was the Stone Age?

Answer 27

A historical period categorized by the making of stone (and other non-metallic material) tools

Question 28

Who were the Summarians?

Answer 28

Dominated southern Mesopotamia in the end of the third millennium BCE

Question 29

What was the capital of Egypt in the Middle and New kingdoms. Where were monarchs buried here?

Answer 29

Thebes Across the river in the Valley of Kings

Question 30

What were large pyramidal stepped towers associated with religious complexes in Mesopotamia? What were their functions?

Answer 30

Ziggurats Their function was unknown

Question 31

Culture in the southwest United States in 700-1300. They lived in New Mexico and colorado and worshipped in underground buildings called Kivas.

Answer 31

Anasazi

Question 32

Andean lineage group (kin-based) community

Answer 32

Ayllu

Question 33

What was the first major civilization in South America (in 900-250 BCE)? Where were they located?

Answer 33

Chavín Andes Mountains of Peru

Question 34

Political organization ruled by a hereditary leader; was less powerful than kingdoms and empires; based of gift giving and commercial links

Answer 34

Chiefdom

Question 35

Powerful kingdom on the northern coast of Peru from 1200-1470 What was it's capital?

Answer 35

Chimu Chan Chan

Question 36

Raised fields built on lake shores in mesoamerica to increase crop yield

Answer 36

Chinampas

Question 37

Civilization in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, and hounduras. Had calendars and did math; never United.

Answer 37

Maya

Question 38

Andean labor system based on sharing obligations to help kinsman work on behalf of rulers or religious organization.

Answer 38

Mita

Question 39

Civilization off the north coast of Peru in 200-700; built irrigation and temples

Answer 39

Moche

Question 40

First mesoamerican civilization between 1200 BCE-400 CE

Answer 40

Olmec

Question 41

The capital of the Aztec empire located on an island in lake Texcoco with a population of 125,000. What city was later built on its ruins?

Answer 41

Tenochtitlan Mexico City

Question 42

Capital city and empire near lake titicaca What country is this in now?

Answer 42

Tiwanaku Bolivia

Question 43

Powerful post-classic state in central Mexico from 900-1175 and has ties to the Aztecs

Answer 43

Toltecs

Question 44

Andean civilization culturally linked to tiwanaku.

Answer 44

Wari

Question 45

What pharaoh built a new capital at Amarna, use a new style of naturalistic art, and forced the worship of the sun disk? When did he rule?

Answer 45

Akhenaten 1353-1335 BCE

Question 46

The Aegean civilization on the island of Crete that traded all around the Mediterranean

Answer 46

Minoan

Question 47

Collection of sacred books of diverse materials that was important to the Isrealites

Answer 47

Hebrew Bible

Question 48

People from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age.

Answer 48

Hittites

Question 49

The land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and Jordan River occupied by the Israelites in 2000 BCE

Answer 49

Israel

Question 50

The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire empires.

Answer 50

Mass deportation

Question 51

Greek word meaning dispersal used to describe a group living outside their homeland

Answer 51

Diaspora

Question 52

The Egyptian queen who lead an expedition to Punt, a faraway source of myrrh

Answer 52

Hatshepsut

Question 53

Monumental tower built in Jerusalem by King Soloman in 1000 BCE to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh

Answer 53

First Temple

Question 54

A large collections of writings from the ancient, literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia.

Answer 54

Library of Ashurbanipal

Question 55

City in present day Tunsania, founded by Phoenicians in 800 BCE and was defeated by Rome in 300 BCE

Answer 55

Carthage

Question 56

Historians term for the period where iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons.

Answer 56

Iron Age

Question 57

A long-lived ruler of the New Kingdom Egypt 1290-1224 BCE

Answer 57

Ramasses II

Question 58

Semitic speaking Canaanites living on the coats of modern Lebanon and Syria in 1000 BCE What city did this group build?

Answer 58

Phoenicians Crete

Question 59

The belief in a single deity What was the first instance of this?

Answer 59

Monotheism Akhenaten and the Sundisk (Aten)

Question 60

Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a late Bronze Age kingdom

Answer 60

Mycenae

Question 61

A set of symbolic symbols derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete.

Answer 61

Linear B

Question 62

The kingdom of Babylon under the chaldaeans which made it a major political and cultural center in 700-600 BCE

Answer 62

Neo Babylonian Kingdom

Question 63

Term used for burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society

Answer 63

Shaft Graves

Question 64

An empire extending from western Iran to syria-palistine, conquered by the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia between 1000-700 BCE

Answer 64

Neo-Assyrian Empire