History 121 exam 1 cram – Flashcards
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Why is king tut famous?
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His tomb was never broken into still contains treasure
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The original home of us humans
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Africa
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When were the pyramids built?
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During the old kingdom
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The fundamental basis for all civilizations
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Large populations agricultural economy
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"Pharaoh" literally
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Great house
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The largest of five continents our authors divided the planet into
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Afroeurasia, Australia, Antarctica, north and South America
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The first really important metal used for tools
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Bronze
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Who migrated to Australia as much as 60,000 years ago
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Descendants on foragers; Southeast Asia
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Gobekli tepe
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A hill in south eastern turkey where an early stone monument remains
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Civilization between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
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Mesopotamia
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What do we have that the Neanderthals didn't?
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Art
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The three political developments evolved by the Sumerians first?
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Kingship, rise of territorial states, and constant warfare
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The worlds first real empire
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Akkad
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What was a ziggurat
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Stepped tower with a temple on top
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The first civilized indo-Europeans in south west Asia?
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Indus or harappan civilization
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What was Egyptian writing called
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Hieroglyphics
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The three developments that favored human adaptation to the steppes
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Domesticated horses invented war chariots developed new military technology
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What is the epic of Gilgamesh about?
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Immortality
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This Shang noble lady's tomb in Anyang was not looted
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Lady hao
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One of the reasons, proposed by our authors,for the rise of the river valley civilizations in chapter 2?
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Fertile soil and available water
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Chinese civilization developed along this river?
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Yellow river (hwuang-he)
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Through what modern state does the Indus River flow
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Pakistan
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The earliest Chinese dynasty
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The Shang dynasty
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Which other ancient civilization did Indus civilization trade with
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Mesopotamia; harappan
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One of the earliest trade centers in South Asia
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Harappa
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Characteristics of Indus civilization cities
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Defensive fort large public buildings ritual baths cemetery granary wells bathrooms latrines covered sewers
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These ancient invaders eventually became the upper castes of Hindu civilzation
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Aryans
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What is monotheism
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The belief there is only one God
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Fundamental questions we humans ask ourselves
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Why are we here what happens after we die
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The island base for austronesian expansion
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Taiwan
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Who was Hatshepsut
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The fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt
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The "suitcase" of austronesian voyagers
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Rice, pigs, chicken, durable pottery, and finely ground stone tools
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Who eventually won the six way power struggle in the ancient near east
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Kassites
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This very successful group migrated into Southern Africa by two routes
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Sudanic cultures
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What was early Greek civilization called
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Minoan civilization
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Bull leaping commercial civilization of the southern Aegean
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Minoan
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Why were the Egyptians so good at mummification; why did they take such pains
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Being preserved well meant you'd have a pleasant after life
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This "lost" civilization operated as a commercial conduit from the Indus Valley to the Persian gulf
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Dilmun
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English is a member of this Indo-European subfamily
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Germanic
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Kingship implies?
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The idea people belong together because they share descent from a common ancestor
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These specific colonizers are named after their distinctive pottery?
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Austronesian; Lapiths pottery
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Even though they had a civilization, what did the Norte Chico people lack
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A written language, corn, pottery and a class system
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The Shang excelled at making objects out of this metal?
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Bronze
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The aboriginal creator/destroyer spirit is called
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Rainbow serpent
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The phenomenon that affects weather all over the world, but especially in the Americas
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El Niño
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Did the Australian aborigines develop agriculture?
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No
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This may have been the first civilization In mesoamerica
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Olmec
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The ancient people who inhabited the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries
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American Indians
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His law code emphasized an "eye for an eye" among is 289 precedents
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Hammurabi
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Indo-European military advantage
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Horses
