Sumerian - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Railroads - First to spread leasing through the US Equipment Lease - use and possession, but not title to tangible property is transferred for consideration 2010 B.C. - Oldest record, in the Sumerian City of Ur. Used clay tablets for documenting leases for agricultural tools, land and water rights, and oxen and other animals

Civilization - Answer An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits. Foragers - Answer People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects. Cuneiform - 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...

the two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent Tigris and Euphrates devolved the world's most ancient law code Ur-Nammu ancient Sumer's most important industry in terms of commercial activity textiles world's oldest work of literature bedsides the Bible Epic of Gilgamesh Sumerian writing cuneiform edubba tablet house ideogram symbols for actions and ideas culture way of life of a people

In Sumerian culture, the most important aspect of ziggurats was their ________. - ️️height What was the connection between the emergence of metallurgy and long-distance trade in Europe in the Neolithic period? - ️️The desire for metal objects drove expanding trade networks. The ziggurats were built to house ________. - ️️temples Which pharaoh introduced monotheism during the New Kingdom? - ️️Akhenaten Domestication of wild animals first began roughly _______ B.C.E. - ...

Western Civilization I (Chapters 1-4) with Complete Solutions Prehistory - Correct Answer human history in the period before recorded events known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research Paleolithic Age - Correct Answer the period of human history when humans used simple stone tools (c. 2,500,000-10,000 b.c.) Neolithic Age - Correct Answer latest part of the stone-age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle-east (but later elsewhere) Civilization - Correct Answer an...

CSTU 101 Chapter 2What region was called the "cradle of human civilization"? - correct answer Mesopotamia Who were the first people to use writing and construct monumental buildings? - correct answer the Sumerians What was Sumerian writing called? - correct answer cuneiform On one of the panels of the Standard of Ur, one side depicts ____. - correct answer war On the other panel of the Standard of Ur, the other side depicts _____. - correct answer peace The division of each of t...

The area known as Mesopotamia is located between what two rivers? correct answer: Tigris and Euphrates Monotheism, the belief in one god, was first practiced by what group? correct answer: Hebrews Judaism spread in the ancient world primarily by what? correct answer: Forced movements (diaspora) Culturally, the Phoenicians are MOST important for being the first large-scale civilization to do what? correct answer: develop a new alphabet What pyramid-building civilization used hiero...

Western Civilization I (Chapters 1-4)Prehistory - correct answer human history in the period before recorded events known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research Paleolithic Age - correct answer the period of human history when humans used simple stone tools (c. 2,500,000-10,000 b.c.) Neolithic Age - correct answer latest part of the stone-age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle-east (but later elsewhere) Civilization - correct answer an advanced level of human so...

God chose to reveal himself to whom? - The Hebrew people What does knowing Hebrew enable? - (1) a deeper and more personal understanding of the Old Testament (2) responsible word and sentence studies What language was the earliest written communication in? - Sumerian (Sumer in SE Mesopotamia) in fourth millennium BC What two languages used cuneiform? - Sumerian and Akkadian (T/F) Pictographic writing was limited in expression and difficult to master? - True What replaced pictographic wri...

Agricultural revolution - the transformation to basic crops such as maze, beans, and squash that altered Native American societies Akenaton - Pharaoh who established the practice of monotheism (belief in one god) in Egypt Amon-Re - Ancient Egyptian god of the sun Ancestor worship - Honoring ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the dead (Chinese dynasty) Animism - Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, ...