Ancient History Test 1 Practice Actual Questions And Answers A+ Score.

Civilization - correct answer A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes., A complex culture in which a large number of humans share common elements or characteristics. Egypt and Mesopotamia Map - correct answer ... Mesopotamia (where) - correct answer Modern Day Iraq The Agricultural Revolution - correct answer period of time where there were larger farms, new methods of agriculture, improved soil & stronger crops, Mesopotamia, B.C. Production transformed by storage of food. , Domestication of plants and animals Neolithic Era - correct answer 8,000-4,000 BCE - New Stone Age - Over time, people go from food seekers to food producers (Highlights: improved stone tools, continued domestication of animals, continued seed selection, development of agriculture) Positives side effects of the Agricultural Revolution - correct answer Longer Life Span, Specialization, Structure, Sustainability, Negative Side effects - correct answer population growth, gender roles, susceptible to disease The Urban Revolution - correct answer BC , Mesopotamia The Urban Revolution - correct answer Creation of self -sustained economic units, asaperated side effects, religious center , Uruk - correct answer Southern Mesopotamia, 3500 BC, First City bceause of size of 50,000 , independent unit, its own government and politics Writing began Writing during the Urban Revolution - correct answer Hieroglyphics and Humnayaform (where history began) Mesopotamia Location - correct answer Between Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Southern Mesopotamia - correct answer Sumer, ALson First Cities called? - correct answer City- States Sargon of Akkad - correct answer 2340BC, Unified Sumer, First identifiable person in M. East History(prove that he could exist) , -- abandoned in river in basket, extension of irrigation and overseas trade, publication of the code of law, Ur-- Sumerian Empire - correct answer BCE, King Ur, Nummu -goddess that they chose Mesopotamia Facts - correct answer Religious Society, Statrified society, Cuneiform , Mesopotamia Religion - correct answer Ordered by their gods, servants to their , no separation of church and state, total focus, Kings were not gods stratified society - correct answer is one in which there is an unequal distribution of society's rewards and in which people are arranged hierarchically into layers according to how much of society's rewards they possess Cuneiform - correct answer A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. -- Around the same time as hieroglyphics Ziggurats - correct answer temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped, high platformed Memphis - correct answer First Capital An ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo), norther part Egypt Unification - correct answer 3100BC King Narmer /Menes - correct answer Originally, Upper and Lower Egypt were independent of each other, until this man brought them together as one. 3100BCE ruler extended authority to delta, founded city of Memphis, Memphis served as his capital became political/cultural center of Egypt, Old Kingdom - correct answer 2686 BC - 2181 BC. Upper and Lower Egypt kept separate kingdoms, but later built unified government. Developed basic features of its civilization. BUILT THE PYRAMIDS: an eternal resting place for their god-kings. The nile - correct answer had predictable flooding, and was "life enhancing", opposite of Mesopotamian view exits into Mediterranean, flows South to North, created an oasis, fertile area around,East of Red sea, Pyramids of Giza - correct answer The three pyramids near Giza that were Built by Khufu, Cheops, and Cheops' son. Their the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Khufu, Khafra, Menjuare. Huge pyramids for burial with gold cap on top Pharaoh - correct answer King, Big House--God on Earth Mastabas - correct answer Funerary temples for commoners; later developed into step pyramids, on top of each other Egyptian Gods - correct answer osiris (god of dead), isis (goddess of nature), horus (god of sky), anubis (gog of dead), Egyptians believed in many Gods. Ra -sun god, Horus-god of sky Amon Re- chief god. Osiris God of Nile. , Ra = sun god;, polytheistic, believed in benevolent nature based human acting predictable gods. Pharaoh (their leader) was a god king, and embodiment of chief god on earth. King Djoser - correct answer 2686 was the king of Egypt and had the first step pyramid Imhotep - correct answer 2686 The first artist in history whose name is known, established the tradition of monumental stone architecture in Egypt in the funerary complex and Stepped Pyramid he built for King Djoser at Saqqara. First Intermediate Period - correct answer BC, time of trouble/ breakdown of centralized government; many kings at once. Montuhotep established order from capital; Thebes, Period of weakness and turmoil, Time between the Old and Middle Kingdoms in which Egypt faced a period of weakness and turmoil. Characteristics Of Egypt - correct answer Unity, Permanence, Polytheistic,Hieroglyphics Jean Francois Champolian - correct answer Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics () Rosetta Stone - correct answer Found By Nepoleans Army, Rosetta Egypt, Now- British Museum King Ptolemy V - correct answer The king that the Rosetta Stone honored Languages of the Rosetta Stone - correct answer Top Hieroglyphics , Demotic (Regular Speak) , Ancient Greek Bottom Egytptian Art - correct answer continuous, enduring, reflects belief in the power and divinity of the pharaoh , royal patronage sponsored artists, architects, and musicians -- little of it remains , tombs and decor, tomb reflects belief in afterlife, prep for a happy one The Narmer Pallete - correct answer 3100 BC -a sla