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Hist 2322 Mid-Term Exam Correct answers latest update
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Hist 2322 Mid-Term Exampaleolithic era ANS✔✔ - "old stone age"
- earliest period of human history
- marked as the time between the first use of stone tools to the beginning of
agriculture (neolithic age)
neolithic revolution ANS✔✔ - agricultural revolution
- 12,000 - 4,000 years ago
- end of ice age = good soil and climate
- lead to farming and domestication
- lead to surplus of food
- increased the human population
- allowed for early villages and chiefdoms
venus figurines ANS✔✔ - paleolithic female figurines that emphasize
physical attributes associated with fecundity
pastoral societies ANS✔✔ - practiced herding animals as a way of life. semi-
nomadic, have domesticated animals, but do not farm. a 3rd option between
hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists.
- animals by region
- relative equality between men and women
- nomads and farmer relations
, chiefdoms ANS✔✔ - social inequality
- no use of force
- examples: mesopotamia, pacific islands, cahokia
civilization ANS✔✔ - a new form of human society, larger and more
complex, made possible by the agricultural revolution
- no implication of superiority
- no implication of solidity
sumerian civilization ANS✔✔ - city-state
- environmental challenges
- environmental impact; deforestation of mesopotamia & salinization of soil
- polytheistic religion
- city-states were theocracies; government that is controlled by religious
leaders, or a country with such government
- ziggurat is a temple built on top of a stepped tower
- cuneiform writing; first written language, means "wedge-shaped"
egyptian civilization ANS✔✔ - upper and lower egypt
- predictable flooding of the nile river
- sustainable agricultural system
- natural barriers
- unification of egypt 3100 bce
- unity and independence
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