Anth 151 Exam 3 || WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS!!
Civilization/states: characteristics correct answers Stable food supply
Social structure
System of government
Religious system
Highly developed culture
advances in technology
Written language
Civilization/states: Development theories correct answers From the gods-sumeria
*surplus food
*population increase
Civilization/states: Collapse theories correct answers Incorporation into other expanding
civilizations
and/or
collapse & reversion to a simpler form (dark ages)
Mesopotamia correct answers Modern location: Iraq, Iran, Syria & Turkey
Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates
Dates:
Ubaid correct answers Prehistoric period of Mesopotamia 6500-3800 BCE
Uruk/Ur correct answers Ancient city of Sumer in ancient mesopotamia. founded around
4500 BC
Ziggurat correct answers Steeped tower, sometimes with a temple (Sumerians-most important
building)
Epic of Gilgamesh correct answers Epic poem, circa 2100 BC, earliest surviving great
literature work
Sumerians correct answers *MODERN LOCATION*: (Mesopotamia) S. Iraq
*DATES*: 4000-3100 BCE
*CULTURE*: agriculture
*SOCIAL ORGANIZATION*: priests, everyone lived for gods
*RELIGION*: 4 gods, priests & worship, art was religious
*INNOVATIONS*: Wheel, cuneiform, math, time
*SIGNIFICANCE*: First full civilization, first to domesticate language
*KEY ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES & ARTIFACTS*: Votive statues, crystal lens, white
temple (ziggurat), female head
Cuneiform correct answers Writing developed by Sumerians. First writing system
Afrocentrism correct answers The belief that ancient Egypt was black; people migrated from
tropical Africa
SOLUTIONS!!
Civilization/states: characteristics correct answers Stable food supply
Social structure
System of government
Religious system
Highly developed culture
advances in technology
Written language
Civilization/states: Development theories correct answers From the gods-sumeria
*surplus food
*population increase
Civilization/states: Collapse theories correct answers Incorporation into other expanding
civilizations
and/or
collapse & reversion to a simpler form (dark ages)
Mesopotamia correct answers Modern location: Iraq, Iran, Syria & Turkey
Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates
Dates:
Ubaid correct answers Prehistoric period of Mesopotamia 6500-3800 BCE
Uruk/Ur correct answers Ancient city of Sumer in ancient mesopotamia. founded around
4500 BC
Ziggurat correct answers Steeped tower, sometimes with a temple (Sumerians-most important
building)
Epic of Gilgamesh correct answers Epic poem, circa 2100 BC, earliest surviving great
literature work
Sumerians correct answers *MODERN LOCATION*: (Mesopotamia) S. Iraq
*DATES*: 4000-3100 BCE
*CULTURE*: agriculture
*SOCIAL ORGANIZATION*: priests, everyone lived for gods
*RELIGION*: 4 gods, priests & worship, art was religious
*INNOVATIONS*: Wheel, cuneiform, math, time
*SIGNIFICANCE*: First full civilization, first to domesticate language
*KEY ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES & ARTIFACTS*: Votive statues, crystal lens, white
temple (ziggurat), female head
Cuneiform correct answers Writing developed by Sumerians. First writing system
Afrocentrism correct answers The belief that ancient Egypt was black; people migrated from
tropical Africa
