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Western CivilizationExam 1 Questions and
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Egypt and Mesopotamian - Answer: First people groups
Paleolithic - Answer: Old Stone Age
Neolithic - Answer: New Stone Age
economic, social, cultural, and religious development - Answer: Cities created became the center for
what four types of development?
Prehistory - Answer: No written records, depend on archaeology and biological information
Hominids - Answer: earliest human-like creatures in Africa 3-4 million years ago
Homoerectus - Answer: upright human beings, 1.5 million years ago, move from Africa to Europe and
Asia
Paleolithic Age - Answer: Old Stone Age, hunting & gathering of food, lived in small bands of 20-30,
nomadic, spear, bow & arrow, fish hooks
Neolithic Age - Answer: New Stone Age, after the last ice age, agricultural revolution (food gathering to
food production), 8000-7000 B.C., permanent settlements, trade began, refined stone tools
, Agricultural Revolution - Answer: Food production in 8000-7000 B.C., favorable environment was fertile
crescent
Bronze Age - Answer: Copper and tin combined makes bronze, more durable than copper, 3000-1200
B.C., Bronze then iron
Seige of Tyre - Answer: Island half a mile from land surrounded by walls. AtG builds a land bridge to Tyre
Civilization - Answer: Complex culture which large numbers of humans share a number of common
elements
Six characteristics of civilization - Answer: urban focus, religious structure, new political and military
structure, new social structure based on economic power, development of writing, new forms of artistic
and intellectual activity
Tigris and Euphrates River - Answer: a place where civilizations emerged, fertile river valleys, between
the two rivers is Mesopotamia, they get little rain but still have rich soil
Mesopotamia - Answer: 'land between the Rivers' created by Sumerians, with independent cities, plenty
of mud
Ziggurat - Answer: Massive stepped tower where temples were built atop
Theocracy - Answer: Government by divine authority, Sumerians believed gods ruled the cities
Code of Hammurabi - Answer: 282 laws, for centuries they regulated relationships in Mesopotamia,
reveals society with strict system of justic, focused much on marriage and family
Polytheistic - Answer: The belief of many gods, Mesopotamian religion
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