Western civilization 2024 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

In what land did the world's 1st civilization flourish? - Answer-Sumer How were Paleolithic societies supported? - Answer-by hunting and gathering During what era did people begin to shift from gathering to cultivating? - Answer- Neolithic Era On what did both the Sumerians and Egyptians base their writing systems? - Answer- pictographs Civilization truly dawned with the widespread use of which of the following metals in toolmaking? - Answer-bronze Memphis, Cairo, and Giza were all found ...

paleolithic -->second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC neolithic -->latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) bronze age -->(archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons sumer -->A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest ci...

APUSH AMSCO Chapter 18 (2023/2024) 100% Pass Columbian Exposition Held in 1893 in the city of Chicago, it's purpose was to display the White City's downtown area and the fairgrounds along with the progress of American civilization such as new industrial technologies. "old" immigrants The majority of them arrived before 1880 and they came almost exclusively from Western Europe and the British Isles. They had a high level of literacy and occupational skills. "new" immigrants The majority o...

Provide the name by which historians who study ancient civilizations refer to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: - Answer-Mesopotamia What historians conventionally consider the principal, and one of the earliest, collection of laws in the ancient Near East was named for an old Babylonian King. Name him - Answer-Hammurabi One of the finest examples of ancient literature centers on a king of Uruk who, confronting the death of his friend Enkidu and the inevitability of his own ...

Prehistory - Answer-human history in the period before recorded events known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research Paleolithic Age - Answer-the period of human history when humans used simple stone tools (c. 2,500,000-10,000 b.c.) Neolithic Age - Answer-latest part of the stone-age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle-east (but later elsewhere) Civilization - Answer-an advanced level of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and governm...

Actium -->Battle in which Octavian defeated Marc Antony for control of Rome Alexander the Great -->The son of Philip II of Macedonia; conquered Greek city- states and Persian Empire to create the largest empire up to that point in history Archaic Age -->The age of Greek history characterized by the emergence of the city- state Assyrians -->A strong militaristic kingdom that conquered most of Mesopotamia and Palestine; the empire used a sophisticated military and brute force to ke...

Paleolithic Age - 2,500,000 - 10,000 BCE the earliest tools were made of stone hunters and gatherers (did not know how to grow crops) Hunters & Gatherers (Mesopotamia) - *Women* -> bore and raised children so they stayed close to camp and gathered berries nuts and grains *Men* -> hunted wild animals which often took them away from camp Neolithic Revolution - 10,000 - 4,000 BCE "new stone age" a significant change in living patterns that occurred in the new stone age Agricultural Re...

Praxis II Social Studies Content Knowledge test (5081) combo (2023/2024) Rated A+ U.S. Bipartism Campaign Reform Act of 2002 It banned "soft money" contributions to National Political Parties, regulates the financing of political campaigns. Korematsu vs. United States 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japaneese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor. United St...

Civilization --> 1)Began in Middle East 2) Has FOUR Parts until it is one: -Family {blood or distinct relation} -Clan {multiple families that work together, distant or no relation} -Villages, Towns, Cities {political and social ties expand} Characteristics of a Civilization --> 1)Urban Society 2)Religion 3)Literacy 4)Government 5)Specialization 6) Tool-making 7)Concept of time! 8) Leisure 9) Education The Three Ancient History Time Periods --> Stone, Bronze, Iron. Mesopotam...

Early human food supply came from - Answer-hunting and gathering What caused the disappearance of the Neanderthals? - Answer-the cause is unknown Western civilization began in approximately 8000 B.C.E. in which region? - Answer-. Mesopotamia Stone Age art devoted to fertility rituals indicate that, in some cases, society may have been - Answer-matriarchal The presence of monoliths such as Stonehenge demonstrate all of the following in Neolithic society except - Answer-defined religion rit...