FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HISTORY QUIZ 1 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT HISTORY QUIZ #1 EXAM

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Question 1: farmers built what to control seasonal floods

Answer:

dams and channels

Question 2: specialized workers

Answer:

• food surplus allowed people to specialize in jobs beside agriculture
• artisans, traders, and soldiers

Question 3: complex institutions example

Answer:

• schools
• government
• organized religion

Question 4: polytheistic

Answer:

belief in many gods

Question 5: what land surrounded the tigris & euphrates rivers

Answer:

the fertile crescent

Question 6: complex institutions

Answer:

• law codes, religion and an economy
• they were organized, united, and helped civilizations prosper

Question 7: ziggural

Answer:

large pyramid-like temple at city's center

Question 8: the epic of gilgamesh

Answer:

a long poem about a king who travels the world, performs good deeds & searches for a way to live forever

Question 9: advanced technology

Answer:

• civilizations developed new ways of doing work with new materials to work with such as metal
• developed tools to make work easier
• made calendars to be more orderly

Question 10: what was the first major civilization in mesopotamia

Answer:

sumer ( about 4500 BCE)

Question 11: pros and cons of regular flooding

Answer:

pro - provided fertile silt for farmland con - unpredictable

Question 12: babylonia

Answer:

• ancient city in central south mesopotamia
• the capital is babylon

Question 13: advanced cities

Answer:

• key features of ancient civilizations
• centers of political, economic, and religious life

Question 14: record keeping & writing example

Answer:

• an alphabet
• number system
• cuneiform

Question 15: technology?

Answer:

used basic math and geometry based on 60 (60 minute hour; 360 circle)

Question 16: social structure (from bottom to top)

Answer:

captured slaves, peasant farmers, merchant/artists/scribes, rulers and priests

Question 17: theocracy

Answer:

religious leader also lead government

Question 18: record keeping & writing

Answer:

• rulers recorded laws
• priests could write down rituals to follow
• merchants could record trade

Question 19: advanced cities example

Answer:

• akkad
• babylon
• ur

Question 20: hammurabi?

Answer:

• babylonian king from 1792 to 1750 BCE
• controls all of mesopotamia
• hammurabi's code (282 laws)

Question 21: specialized workers example

Answer:

• construction worker
• an army
• craftsman

Question 22: city-state

Answer:

a small independent city with a government

Question 23: advanced technology example

Answer:

• irrigation canals
• bronze tools
• the wheel

Question 24: what was used to bring water to fields

Answer:

irrigation

Question 25: characteristics of a civilzation

Answer:

• advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping and writing, advanced

technology